# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/141 "2006-06-06T17:50:27Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Trillian from Hitchhikers and the Stewardess Sister in the excellent little film “Almost Famous” Zooey something. Zooey Deschanel. Sister of Emily Deschanel (_Bones_), daughter of Caleb and Mary Jo Deschanel (_The Right Stuff_). Talented family. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/142 "2006-06-06T18:04:26Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > And the evil sheriff in Mississippi Burning. You mean the evil _deputy_. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/143 "2006-06-06T18:12:47Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > You mean the evil _deputy_. The one that got shot? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/144 "2006-06-06T18:25:01Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > 5.) A Stallone is in Tombstone as well… Why Ed, what an ugly thing to say! Does this mean you’re not my friend anymore? You know, Ed, if I thought you weren’t my friend I don’t think I could bear it. Curly Bill why you making me drink this cyanide-laced Flavor Aid? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![fuffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuffle)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/145 "2006-06-06T23:23:49Z")
I saw _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_ and thought the Sheriff was pretty cool. I saw _Die Hard_ and thought the main terrorist guy was awesome. I saw _Galaxy Quest_ and thought Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus was hilarious. I saw _Harry Potter_ (1) and was in love with Snape where I had not been before. Then I bought the _Galaxy Quest_ DVD, watched the first two minutes, and my whole universe realigned. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/146 "2006-06-07T00:02:58Z")
My vote goes to [Jason Isaacs](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005042/). Compare the parts he played in **Event Horizon** , the **Harry Potter** movies, **Armageddon** , **Black Hawk Down** and a dozen others. Amazing. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/147 "2006-06-07T00:41:16Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > It was some time after I saw “Raiders of the Lost Ark” that I finally recognized him from “I, Claudius”, where he played Macro, Sejanus’s second in command. The delay was because he played Macro clean-shaven. > > And of course, Sejanus was played by Patrick Stewart, with hair. And the Emperor Augustus was Brian Blessed, clean-shaven. Bearded Blessed is familiar from the first “Blackadder” series (King Richard) and Kenneth Branagh’s \*Henry V \* (Essex), among other things. I had several “I know that guy!” moments when “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” turned up on Trio a while back. Two that come to mind are “Hey, it’s Bosley from ‘Charlie’s Angels’!” (the TV show, not the movie) and “Hey, it’s Klinger from ‘M_A_S_H_’!” ---
**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 7, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/148 "2006-06-07T01:42:33Z")
> [@ryobserver](#): > > And the Emperor Augustus was Brian Blessed, clean-shaven. Bearded Blessed is familiar from the first “Blackadder” series (King Richard) and Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V (Essex), among other things. And most memorably for me, the King of the Hawkmen in **Flash Gordon**. “DIIIIIIVE!!!” I recently watched **The Interpreter**. I knew I recognized the [guy](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364711/) that played Kuman-Kuman, so I looked him up. “Ah, the guy from **Layer Cake**. That’s right.” Then I kept going down the list…“Huh. He was also the overlord from **Black Hawk Down** …” and I kept going…“Holy CRAP! He was Katanga the boat captain from **Raiders of the Lost Ark**!” ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/149 "2006-06-07T02:10:22Z")
> [@Susie Derkins](#): > > I just found out yesterday that Brad Dourif (Doc Cochran on “Deadwood”) also voiced Chucky in the “Child’s Play” movies. Blew my mind a little bit. Brad Dourif is in Deadwood??? Man, I gotta get HBO. I love Brad Dourif. Here’s something equally cool: Brad Dourif, who you know as the voice of Chucky, and Robert Englund, who was Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, were both in the horror movie Urban Legend. I noticed that on my first watching of UL, and tried to recognize other horror actors, but I think those two are it. (also: I was just doing some fact-checking on IMDB and see that Dourif and Englund were both in separate episodes of Babylon 5. I remember Dourif - that episode is part of why I like him so much - but I didn’t remember Englund. Gonna have to watch more B5) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/150 "2006-06-07T02:55:46Z")
> [@Mama Zappa](#): > > And the lead female alien (the one who gets it on with Tony Shalhoub) also played Violet Beauregarde’s mother in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She was also Fran in Dodgeball. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/151 "2006-06-07T13:15:48Z")
My weirdest one for me recently was [Roger Carmel](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0138354/), who played Harry Mudd on Star Trek TOS, as well as bit parts on every crappy sitcom in history, played Senor Naugles, the fictional spokesman of the Naugles taco chain. I don’t remember if Naugles was a national chain or regional, so his commercials may have only been seen on the west coast. Naugles was Borged by Del Taco in the eighties anyway. Old MASH episodes turn up familiar faces once in a while, usually playing patients. Kurt Russell and Lawrence Fishburn off the top of my head. The strangest had to be Harry Morgan, before he was cast as Potter, playing a deranged general. I was completely confused the first time I saw that one. ---
**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 7, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/152 "2006-06-07T13:28:44Z")
I’m sure most Dopers already know this one, but what the heck: In the Twilight Zone movie segment based on “It’s a Good Life” (with the creepy little boy whose wishes all come true), the girl who gets wished into cartoon-land is played by Nancy Cartwright, aka the voice of Bart Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/153 "2006-06-07T13:53:29Z")
> [@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? Hugh Laurie was also in _Black Adder_. I was also surprised to find that Elijah Wood (_Lord of the Rings_) made his debut as one of the video game kids on _Back to the Future II_ (“You mean you gotta use your hands; that’s like a baby’s toy”). It’s also hard to believe that James Van Der Beek is both Dawson on _Dawson’s Creek_ and Sean in the movie _Rules of Attraction_. In _Dawson’s Creek_, he’s a sensitive high schooler (or college student in the later episodes) who is mostly concerned about relationships and feelings. In _Rules of Attraction_, he’s mostly concerned with drinking, doing drugs, and getting laid. ---
**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 7, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/154 "2006-06-07T13:56:39Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I’m sure most Dopers already know this one, but what the heck: In the Twilight Zone movie segment based on “It’s a Good Life” (with the creepy little boy whose wishes all come true), the girl who gets wished into cartoon-land is played by Nancy Cartwright, aka the voice of Bart Simpson. Just to note, “It’s a _Good_ Life” is by Jerome Bixby. And I never knew that, actually, that’s cool. Of course the Simpsons did their take on that story as well. ---
**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 7, 2006, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/155 "2006-06-07T14:00:16Z")
> [@](#): > > My weirdest one for me recently was Roger Carmel, who played Harry Mudd on Star Trek TOS, as well as bit parts on every crappy sitcom in history, played Senor Naugles, the fictional spokesman of the Naugles taco chain. I don’t remember if Naugles was a national chain or regional, so his commercials may have only been seen on the west coast. Naugles was Borged by Del Taco in the eighties anyway. Well, not just crappy – he was on **The Dick Van Dyke Show** , after all. And he wasn’t just a bit player. For a time, he was one of the Fathers in Law on **The Mothers in Law**. Carmel had a yo-yoing weight situation. He was thin on the DVD show, fat as Harry Mudd, then less fat for TMiL, then realy thin again. When he did the Naugles commercials (they ran in Utah, too, where I saw them) he was fat again. It wasn’t until he died that I found out it was him, and said “_That_ was Roger C. Carmel??” ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/156 "2006-06-07T16:02:14Z")
This is a pretty minor one, but I’d been wondering why Craig Robinson, who plays Darryl on The Office (the warehouse fellow who works with Pam’s fiancée) looked so familiar. A friend pointed out that he played the character Mutha in [Lucky](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312271/), the woefully short-lived F/X series with John Corbett. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/157 "2006-06-07T23:41:37Z")
A couple years ago I watched **Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life**. I like action films in general, but I was more impressed by this one than the first since Croft’s side-kick was pretty hot. It made me wonder if I’d seen the guy in question in anything else. **Reign of Fire**? I saw that silly thing. **Dracula 2000**? Yup, I saw that one too. **Timeline**? Holy shit, I’d seen that less than a month before! It was then I realized that Gerald Butler is my **hey! it’s that guy!**. His hotness couldn’t get me though The Phantom of the Opera, sadly. ---
**Author:** ![2MuchTrivia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e9bcb4/32.png) [@2MuchTrivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2MuchTrivia)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/158 "2006-06-08T04:18:34Z")
The one I missed (I am usually good at voices) was **Jenette Goldstein**. She was Vasquez in _Aliens_, the Irish mother who takes her kids back to berthing in _Titanic_, and the foster mom in _T:2_. Most big “stars” I spot, it is the character actors I miss. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/159 "2006-06-08T04:38:26Z")
> [@Gordon Urquhart](#): > > This is a pretty minor one, but I’d been wondering why Craig Robinson, who plays Darryl on The Office (the warehouse fellow who works with Pam’s fiancée) looked so familiar. A friend pointed out that he played the character Mutha in [Lucky](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312271/), the woefully short-lived F/X series with John Corbett. _Lucky_ was an awesome series, and it would have been a bigger hit if it came out a couple years later, after poker became such a big success on television. Sadly, John Corbett seems to be a country singer now. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165/160 "2006-06-08T05:19:46Z")
RE: J.K. Simmons… > [@Agnostic Pagan](#): > > I knew J. Jameson sounded familiar. Thanks. (That would be an awesome cross-over, wouldn’t it, L&O:_Marvel_) Jameson’s voice may also be familiar if you like M&Ms. Particularly, yellow ones. (J.K. Simmons does the voice for Yellow M&M in the commercials.) My favorite one: When I saw _HP: Prisoner of Azkaban_, the charming, sympathetic and rather cute Professor Lupin looked familiar to me, but I just couldn’t place him. And then I remembered: David Thewlis played lowest-of-the-low scumbag Jimmy Jackson on _Prime Suspect III_, where he lured young boys and pimped them out to pedophiles. Yipe! No wonder he had to retire from Hogwarts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-thats-the-same-guy/359165.md?page=9)