# Wait, that's the same guy?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165 "2006-06-02T17:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/21 "2006-06-02T19:07:10Z")
I knew this one for years but it cracked me up to drop it on unsuspecting people… Vincent D’Onofrio as [Thor](http://webs.sir-ranulf.net/donofrio/albums/adventuresinbabysitting/Adventures_in_Babysitting_02.jpg) in **Adventures in Babysitting** and also as [Private Pyle](http://artem1s.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/Immagini_Blog/vincent_donofrio.jpg) in **Full Metal Jacket**. And there’s plenty more roles he’s had that are almost indistinguishable from his normal looks or other parts. But those two, to me, are demonstrate the hugest gap. Muscular blond god versus pudgy maniac. Decisions, decisions. Guess I’d still take either (or both!), just because I have such a crush on him. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/22 "2006-06-02T19:07:16Z")
> [@Ensign Edison](#): > > My most triumphant moment with this is still when I realized that the lead alien in Galaxy Quest is the balding photographer guy from that David Spade/Laura Sangiacomo sitcom the name of which I seem to have blacked out from my brain. (From ‘Just Shoot Me’) I remember my ‘aha!’ moment from this also. Even though I saw Galaxy Quest 7 years ago I was watching Just Shoot Me a few months ago. Elliot (the photographer) did a voice almost like his Galaxy Quest character. Me: “Hey, he sounds like the alien from… wait a minute… what the… that is him!!” ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/23 "2006-06-02T19:07:52Z")
> [@Ensign Edison](#): > > For years, two unconnected thoughts floated around my brain: > > What ever happened to that little girl from Interview With the Vampire, and > Where did this Kirsten Dunst chick come from? It took me almost the whole movie to figure out that the Prince from **Syriana** was Dr. Bashir from **Star Trek: Deep Space Nine**. The [beard](http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0365737/SC29824a.jpg) and the scary good acting threw me off. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/24 "2006-06-02T19:09:22Z")
> [@DxZero](#): > > It took me almost the whole movie to figure out that the Prince from **Syriana** was Dr. Bashir from **Star Trek: Deep Space Nine**. The [beard](http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0365737/SC29824a.jpg) and the scary good acting threw me off. And I have no idea why I included that quote box. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/25 "2006-06-02T19:13:30Z")
My “whoa” moment was sort of backwards: realizing that the obnoxious overgrown bully with a paddle in Dazed and Confused was the player Ned from Shakespeare in Love, Ben Affleck. Did not know that about Vincent D’Onofrio! Loved Thor. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/26 "2006-06-02T19:17:28Z")
> [@DxZero](#): > > It took me almost the whole movie to figure out that the Prince from **Syriana** was Dr. Bashir from **Star Trek: Deep Space Nine**. The [beard](http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0365737/SC29824a.jpg) and the scary good acting threw me off. Heh, not to brag, but I had the opposite experience: I saw maybe five seconds of his eyes in the trailer and went ‘Bashir!’ But I was in the process of watching DS9 all the way through right then, so it’s not that impressive. Just Shoot Me, thank you, yes. And I too only realized a few months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/27 "2006-06-02T19:19:10Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > It was weird when I realized that the Vulcan woman from Star Trek VI was Kim Cattrall, of Sex and the City fame. (She’s been in lots of other stuff, too, but that was the weird one.) And man was she better than Kirstie Ally. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/28 "2006-06-02T19:27:39Z")
> [@Ensign Edison](#): > > Heh, not to brag, but I had the opposite experience: I saw maybe five seconds of his eyes in the trailer and went ‘Bashir!’ But I was in the process of watching DS9 all the way through right then, so it’s not that impressive. Well to be fair to myself, I knew I recognized him from somewheres. And I hadn’t seen a DS9 in like forever.(Its never on, anymore) An IMDB search also shows that [Alex Siddig](http://imdb.com/name/nm0796502/) was also in **Kingdom of Heaven**. I completely missed him in that movie. As I mentioned in another thread, it took me about a dozen viewings of \*\*Band of Brothers \*\*to realize that guy who played Private Blithe was the same guy who’s in \*\*Hustle \*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/29 "2006-06-02T19:34:56Z")
Originally Kattral was supposed to play Saavik, the character that Kristie Alley played in Wrath of Kahn. And it was originally supposed to be Saavik as the vulcan traitor character in VI. For me it was Becky’s husband from Roseanne and Doyle from Angel. (in my defense I didn’t really watch Angel at all in the first two seasons) Same actor…and now he’s dead. Sad times. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/30 "2006-06-02T19:46:35Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > Yes, I just realized that the guy that played **Napoleon Dynamite** ’s uncle is Lazlo from **Real Genius**. I never would have guess and I have probably watch Real Genius a dozen times over the years. Biggest surprise for me was the Actor who played Ralph Houk in \*61 and Walter Hagen in The Legend of Bagger Vance was [Bruce McGill](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569226/) who was D-Day in Animal House and the Sheriff in My Cousin Vinny. Animal House was his first major role and he never stopped working since and I never recognized him until I was trying to confirm that Houk & Hagen were the same actor. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/31 "2006-06-02T19:49:01Z")
[My Cousin Vinnie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/) is one of my favorite movies. The actor playing Sheriff Dean Farley always seemed familiar but I couldn’t quite place him. Saw him some more on Quantum Leap and McGyver. Finally got around one day to looking him up on IMDB. Who is he? Why he’s [Daniel Simpson, supercool mechanic from Animal House!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/) also know in real life as Bruce McGill ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/32 "2006-06-02T19:56:11Z")
Recently I watched the beginning of a not-so-hot action movie called **Sunset Grill**. There was a scene that featured a skinny, surly Latino punk getting pushed around. The guy looked hauntingly familiar, but it was only after a visit to the IMDb that I learned that it was Benito Martinez, who is so good as Police Captain Aceveda (later City Councilman Aceveda) in **The Shield**. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/33 "2006-06-02T19:58:02Z")
> [@waits](#): > > David Strathairn. Saw him in **Return of the Secaucus Seven, Brother from Another Planet, Matewan,** … **Eight Men Out** that I thought, “I’ve seen this guy somewhere.” I felt pretty silly when I realized that I’d seen him everywhere! And he’s in John Sayles’s **Passionfish**. Those guys must be good pals. **Dolores Claiborne** (not a Sayles film) is the only one where he’s a real shit. > [@Dung Beetle](#): > > Well, I was pretty proud of myself when I figured out that the guy who played Spencer on Spin City was the same guy who played Ferris Bueller’s sidekick Cameron. OOOOHH! ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/34 "2006-06-02T20:14:30Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Vincent D’Onofrio as [Thor](http://webs.sir-ranulf.net/donofrio/albums/adventuresinbabysitting/Adventures_in_Babysitting_02.jpg) in **Adventures in Babysitting** and also as [Private Pyle](http://artem1s.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/Immagini_Blog/vincent_donofrio.jpg) in **Full Metal Jacket**. And there’s plenty more roles he’s had that are almost indistinguishable from his normal looks or other parts. But those two, to me, are demonstrate the hugest gap. Tell me about it. My husband is still trying to convince me that Edgar from _Men in Black_ is the same guy as Orson Welles in _Ed Wood_. I still don’t believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/35 "2006-06-02T20:16:22Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > OOOOHH! Shocking, isn’t it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/36 "2006-06-02T20:22:23Z")
Here’s one from a couple of old films I just recently realized: Gottlieb, Groucho’s nemesis in **A Night at the Opera** was Seargent Schultz in **Stalag 17**. His name was **Sig Ruman** And Burt Saxby in the James Bond Film **Diamonds are Forever** was the leading man, Jack Driscoll, in the original **King Kong** – **Bruce Cabot**. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/37 "2006-06-02T20:34:02Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > Tell me about it. My husband is still trying to convince me that Edgar from _Men in Black_ is the same guy as Orson Welles in _Ed Wood_. I still don’t believe it. Well, you’re both half right. From [IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/trivia) trivia’s page > [@](#): > > Unhappy with Vincent D’Onofrio, Tim Burton had his voice dubbed by Maurice LaMarche. Of course, Maurice LaMarche also did the voice of The Brain from **Pinky and the Brain** ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/38 "2006-06-02T20:34:48Z")
That reminds me Agnes Moorehead is well known as Endora in Bewitch. She was also Mary Kane in Citizen Cane and in a famous Twilight Zone Episode [“The Invaders”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734648/) Elsa Lanchester might be known to you as Katie Nanna in Mary Poppins or Aunt Henrietta in the Nanny and the Professor and Aunt Queenie Holroyd in Bell Book and Candle. All very similar parts. She was the [Bride of Frankenstein](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026138/). Jim ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/39 "2006-06-02T20:36:48Z")
That may be the weirdest simulpost ever. Not only because it’s a weird coincidence, but who doens’t recognize Bruce McGill? He looks exactly the same in every role! 😉 I’ve been watching a lot of Seinfeld reruns lately and it’s a gold mine for stuff like this. Hey! That’s Lauren Graham and Jerry’s girlfriend! Hey, that’s Paula Marshall as Jerry’s girlfriend! Hey, that’s Michael Chiklis as the guy who threw the party! –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/40 "2006-06-02T20:38:35Z")
The 13 year-old mayor’s daughter from **Animal House** (“I got a **lot** of catching up to do…”) was also Maggie the Irish girlfriend from **Caddyshack**. (“You replaaace the butter…if sombody drops a fark ya givem another one”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165.md?page=3)