# Unrelated actors that look like family **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291 "2006-01-17T01:20:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/61 "2006-01-18T05:07:14Z")
I always thought the late [Vincent Schiavelli](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3997/Events/3997/VincentSch_Grani_1652710_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Schiavelli,%20Vincent) looked liked a slightly melted version of [Jeffrey Tambor.](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/2721/Events/2721/JeffreyTam_Grani_4240642_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Tambor,%20Jeffrey) ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/62 "2006-01-18T05:16:09Z")
2 for me: [Rick Schroder](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005401/) and [Jude Law](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000179/). When I saw _The Talented Mr. Ripley_, I thought it was little Ricky Schroder for like a year. The other one that gets me is the above-mentioned [Breckin Meyer](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005227/) and [Noah Wyle](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001864/) of _ER_ fame. Oh and totally Ray Fiennes and Liam Neeson. Never can tell those two apart. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/63 "2006-01-18T05:42:41Z")
OK, one more. [Jason Wiles](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005556/) of the TV show Third Watch looks like [Jamie Bamber](http://www.jamiebamber.co.uk/) of the new Battlestar Galactica show. Took me awhile to convince my roommate they weren’t the same person. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/64 "2006-01-18T06:19:40Z")
How about (youngest to oldest) [Tom Cruise](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000129/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9dG9tIGNydWlzZXxmdD0xfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHxjbz0xfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=22;fm=1) [Mark Harmon](http://imdb.com/name/nm0001319/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9bWFyayBoYXJtb258ZnQ9MXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8Y289MXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1) & [Kevin Costner](http://imdb.com/name/nm0000126/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9a2V2aW4gY29zdG5lcnxmdD0xfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHxjbz0xfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=21;fm=1) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/65 "2006-01-18T10:43:55Z")
I’m still convinced that David Duchovny is the bastard son of Adam West. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/66 "2006-01-18T11:19:33Z")
Gene Wilder and Eric Idle. There’s a third actor, quite a well-known name, that looks like both of them, but I can’t remember who it is right now. ---
**Author:** ![Dervish\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dervish\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervish_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/67 "2006-01-18T11:21:17Z")
I still think that [Kevin Bacon](http://purcine.free.fr/stars/b/bacon_kevin/xl_bacon_kevin-portrait.jpg) and [Jamie Lee Curtis](http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9808/05/halloween.h20/link.jamie.lee.curtis.jpg) are the same person. ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/68 "2006-01-18T11:34:42Z")
I thought Peri Gilpin, on Frasier, looks like Celine De leon ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/69 "2006-01-18T12:24:16Z")
> [@jali](#): > > [father](http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Dennis%20Haysbert.jpg) > [son](http://images.hollywood.com/images/4_422002.jpg) Y’know, when you don’t put names in a link and the link doesn’t work, you’re not making a huge contribution to the thread… ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/70 "2006-01-18T12:50:35Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Y’know, when you don’t put names in a link and the link doesn’t work, you’re not making a huge contribution to the thread… If I had to guess the first link, I’d say [Denzel Washington](http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/denzel_smile.jpg) but according to the text it’s [Dennis Haysbert](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f7/Dennishaysbert.jpg/200px-Dennishaysbert.jpg). The two look like brothers to me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/71 "2006-01-18T12:58:16Z")
[Matthew Perry](http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/matthewperry/) and [John Bennett Perry](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675134/) could be father and son…oh wait… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/72 "2006-01-18T13:00:10Z")
**Nathan Lane** and **Sean Hannity** are practically twins. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/73 "2006-01-18T13:03:32Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > **Nathan Lane** and **Sean Hannity** are practically twins. And their father was Lou Costello. [Nathan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001447/), [Lou](http://www.abbottandcostello.net/) [sean](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1242,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/74 "2006-01-18T16:36:31Z")
I’m surprised that [James Garner](http://webzoom.freewebs.com/moviegraphs/Garner%20James.jpg) and [Tom Hanks](http://escena.ya.com/cinemamix/oscar/nominados/hanks93.JPG) have never played father/son or old character/young character (ala _Big Fish_). Johnny Depp and [Michael Pitt](http://images.absolutenow.com/rp/Pitt_JS011258391.jpg) could also be father son, while Tom Cruise and soap actor [Brian Datillo](http://dtpdefjam.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/bryandattilo2.jpg) could play brothers. If Philip Seymour Hoffman ever needs a dad he couldn’t do much better than BBC miniseries staple (and Mt. Everest climber) [Brian Blessed](http://www.stuart.cann.freeuk.com/images/brian_blessed.jpg), with [Brendan Gleeson](http://www.thesonsofscotland.co.uk/images/braveheart%20cast/Brendan%20Gleeson%201.jpg) thrown in as an uncle. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/75 "2006-01-18T17:36:43Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > …Any other unrelated celebrities who look enough alike to be family? Please provide pictures if you can. [Anthony Zerbe](http://www.stars-of-old.com/zerbephoto.html) and [Tyne Daly](http://jtgoldsberry.tripod.com/daly.html). ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/76 "2006-01-18T18:32:32Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I’m surprised that [James Garner](http://webzoom.freewebs.com/moviegraphs/Garner%20James.jpg) and [Tom Hanks](http://escena.ya.com/cinemamix/oscar/nominados/hanks93.JPG) have never played father/son or old character/young character (ala _Big Fish_). > > Johnny Depp and [Michael Pitt](http://images.absolutenow.com/rp/Pitt_JS011258391.jpg) could also be father son, while Tom Cruise and soap actor [Brian Datillo](http://dtpdefjam.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/bryandattilo2.jpg) could play brothers. > > If Philip Seymour Hoffman ever needs a dad he couldn’t do much better than BBC miniseries staple (and Mt. Everest climber) [Brian Blessed](http://www.stuart.cann.freeuk.com/images/brian_blessed.jpg), with [Brendan Gleeson](http://www.thesonsofscotland.co.uk/images/braveheart%20cast/Brendan%20Gleeson%201.jpg) thrown in as an uncle. none of your links work ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/77 "2006-01-19T00:35:07Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > Before Harrison Ford started showing his age, I thought Dennis Quaid could be his older, drunker brother. Wait a minute. Quaid is over a decade younger than Ford! Not to mention mighty pleasing on the eyes. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/78 "2006-01-19T00:51:22Z")
Although the differences in their appearance are more marked now, I used to get [Jake Gyllenhaall](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0179098/Ss/0179098/03_CT-8454.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Gyllenhaal,%20Jake) confused with [Tobey Maguire](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0316654/DF-05539.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/79 "2006-01-19T05:13:55Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > none of your links work Bugger. [James Garner](http://www.fittonbooks.com/images/extra/rockford.jpg)/[Tom Hanks (right)](http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/shows/bosom.jpg) [Depp](http://users2.ev1.net/~disneyelvis/images/JohnnyDepp/BennyNJoon-Sam.jpg) /[Michael Pitt](http://www.new-video.de/da/31419.JPG)/[Skeet Ulrich](http://a.abc.com/primetime/miracles/images/gallery/pau.jpg) The others seem to work. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291/80 "2006-01-19T05:24:20Z")
And not just because they’re all fat: [Ian McNeice](http://www.siegler.net/chef/images/gustav.jpg), [Robbie Coltrane](http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40188000/jpg/_40188405_pot_robbie.jpg) and [Glenn Shadix](http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/planet_of_the_apes/glenn_shadix/apespre.jpg) could play brothers (if you could explain why one has a southern accent and the other two are English). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unrelated-actors-that-look-like-family/340291.md?page=5)