# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/61 "2006-06-03T13:44:09Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Wrong Sgt Schultz, you are thinking [Hogan’s Heroes](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058812/), **CalMeacham** was talking about [Stalag 17 (1953)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/) with Sig Ruman as Sgt. Schulz. :smack: You mean exactly like he said in his original quote? I’m going back to bed now. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/62 "2006-06-03T13:54:29Z")
> [@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? That really was her peak acting performance. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/63 "2006-06-03T14:03:23Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Speaking of Spiderman, Doc Ock in Spiderman 2 was the guy in **Raiders of the Lost Ark** that invaded the temple with Indy at the beginning. “Throw me the whip, I throw you the idol! No time to argue!” And the Opus Dei bishop in DA VINCI CODE, which would have been much improved by a set of Doc Ock arms _L_ ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/64 "2006-06-03T18:37:35Z")
IIRC, I was blown away when I finally realised who the Judge in My Cousin Vinny was… Herman Munster. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/65 "2006-06-03T21:26:49Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Actually, I felt almost stupid when I finally realized that Mitzi from Priscilla queen of the desert was agent Smith from the matrix and also Elrond from LOTR. Loved all those movies, loved his work in each, had no freaking clue for the longest time that it was the same guy. You’re kidding? Man, the second Elrond came on the screen in LOTR1, the whole damn theater chorused, “Look - Agent Smith!”. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/66 "2006-06-04T17:12:40Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You’re kidding? Man, the second Elrond came on the screen in LOTR1, the whole damn theater chorused, “Look - Agent Smith!”. But how many of them said, “Look - Mitzi!”? ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/67 "2006-06-04T17:38:04Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You’re kidding? Man, the second Elrond came on the screen in LOTR1, the whole damn theater chorused, “Look - Agent Smith!”. I chimed in, “Missssster Annnndersonnnnn.” ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/68 "2006-06-04T17:55:52Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > 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. Wow. That was definitely another “Wait that’s the same guy!” moment. I have had several over the years. One in particular involved [Muriel from Muriel’s wedding](http://www.acmi.net.au/experience/images/img_muriels_wedding.jpg) and [Haley Joel’s Mom](http://film.onet.pl/oscary/_i/2aktorka/toni_collette.jpg) in **The Sixth Sense**. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/69 "2006-06-04T18:16:37Z")
> [@Orbifold](#): > > I saw an episode of _Jeeves and Wooster_ for the first time a week or two ago, and I turned to my wife and said “That guy (points to guy playing Wooster), should I recognize him?” > > She just stared at me for a second. “That’s Hugh Laurie. From _House_.” Apparently, famous British actors occasionally can be seen in old British television series, who knew? I had the opposite reaction. I’ve never yet seen an episode of House (I know, I know) but I’d seen ads for it and I kept getting glimpses of the guy and snippets of what he said. I kept thinking “Is that – that can’t be Bertie. But it LOOKS like Bertie. They got a dead ringer for Hugh Laurie!” 😃 > [@Miss Mapp](#): > > It turns out that the acerbic coroner who always gave Morse such a hard time is also the voice of Gollum in both the BBC radio version of Lord of the Rings and the animated Ralph Bashki version. I never realized that! But yes, that name is etched in my brain. As is Ian Holm. It gave me a great huge laugh to realize that the actor in the LotR movies for Bilbo was actually the voice of FRODO. Gives me a bit of a turn whenever I’m just listening to the movie. And seeing him as his character in From Hell is just… unnerving. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/70 "2006-06-04T18:19:50Z")
Well if Gandalf can be Magneto, having been in Shakespeare, panto and UK Soap opera… ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/71 "2006-06-04T18:54:39Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > I was amazed (and very impressed) when I realised that the same actor, J.K. Simmons, played J. Jameson in the _Spider-Man_ movies and Dr. Emil Skoda (rent-a-shrink) in _Law & Order_. That’s quite a range. I saw him in a Homicide rerun last week (his character was a murderer named Alexander Rausch - it was one of the times Homicide and Law and Order did crossover episodes) and couldn’t figure out where I’d seen him before, but I knew I had. Two days later I saw a TV ad for Spider-Man and it clicked. Forgot he was also a regular on L&O. But my aha moment: realizing that the scientist from the Short Circuit movies was the wacky sidekick from Early Edition: Fisher Stevens. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/72 "2006-06-04T19:01:37Z")
When I first started seeing Senator Fred Thompson on C-SPAN, I was like: "Isn’t that the dude from _No Way Out_ and those Tom Clancy movies? ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/73 "2006-06-04T19:21:04Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > My roommate was just watching **The Girl Next Door** , and very excitedly pointed out to me that the sleazy pimp character was someone I should recognize… add a moustache, replace the sleaze with a rigid code of ethics, and presto, you get **Bullock** from **Deadwood**. Another Deadwood one: on that recent 100 Funniest Films specials, W Earl Brown (Dan Dority) was on, and under his name he was credited with being in Something About Mary. After thinking a minute about what he did in the film, I finally figured out that he played Warren. Now whenever I see him on the show I’ll be wondering if he managed to find his baseball. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/74 "2006-06-04T19:32:12Z")
I dropped my popcorn when I found out that Danny, the drug dealer from _Withnail & I_, was played by the same actor as Jaye Davidson’s boyfriend in _The Crying Game_. Both parts are cameos, and both are fantastically memorable. Ralph Brown, a brilliantly quirky actor. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/75 "2006-06-04T19:38:53Z")
> [@velvetjones](#): > > David Krumholtz in The Santa Claus same guy who was the guy who killed that cute little blonde intern on ER that same year and also the love crazed doorman from Sidewalks of New York. I saw him in _Serenity_ and didn’t realize he was the elf from The Santa Clause until I IMDBed him when I got home. Granted, he’s grown up since then. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/76 "2006-06-04T20:51:38Z")
Malcolm McDowell Alex in _A Clockwork Orange_ (1971) Antonelli in _The Company_ (2003) No fucking way. Way. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/77 "2006-06-04T21:00:30Z")
Until I checked IMDB, I had no idea that [Miguel Sandoval](http://imdb.com/name/nm0762153/) played both the drug lord Escobedo in **Clear and Present Danger** and Archie the punk in **Repo Man**. My mind still cannot process the image of a twenty-something Miguel in a mohawk. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/78 "2006-06-04T21:00:54Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > I saw him in _Serenity_ and didn’t realize he was the elf from The Santa Clause until I IMDBed him when I got home. Granted, he’s grown up since then. Don’t forget he was Wednesday’s love interest in _Addams Family Values_. He was about 15 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/79 "2006-06-04T21:19:47Z")
Jennifer Connelly had a lead role in the 1986 film _Labyrinth_ as well as _Requiem for a Dream_. Cartoon voice actors always catch me by surprise. Mark Hamill does a lot of cartoon voices, including the Joker in the Batman animated series. E.G. Daily does the voice of Tommy Pickles from Rugrats and Buttercup from The Powerpuff Girls (how did I not notice that right off the bat?) Richard Steven Horvitz, who does the voice for Invader Zim, also did the robot Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. And Eli Vance from Half Life 2 is Robert Guillaume, the same guy who did Rafiki’s voice in The Lion King. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/80 "2006-06-04T21:56:27Z")
Speaking of _A Clockwork Orange_: the bodyguard = Darth Vader. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165.md?page=5)