# Young & Old Actors playing same role in One Film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 14, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640 "2007-10-14T03:09:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/21 "2007-10-15T01:05:14Z")
Rob Lowe and Robert Wagner as Number Two in _Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me_ _edited to add_: Damn, GreedySmurf. Great minds think alike - and apparently at teh same time! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/22 "2007-10-15T01:08:07Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] A bunch of actresses played the older versions of the characters in **A League of Their Own**. I actually liked the fact they used older actresses instead of putting the stars in old age makeup. [/QUOTE] IIRC, several of the women you saw were the actual players. And as to “they look nothing alike,” check out [Nightbreaker](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097977/), a film where Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen play younger and older versions of a character. They look a hell of a lot like each other… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/23 "2007-10-15T04:30:09Z")
Kate Winslett/ Judy Dench and Hugh Bonneville/Jim Broadbent in **Iris**. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/24 "2007-10-15T04:44:44Z")
As is traditional in these kinds of threads I will push the rules set out by the OP and mention a TV show. In an episode of _Magnum P.I_. Jose Ferrer and June Lockhart play old flames separated since WWII. In flachbacks they are played by Miguel Ferrer and Anne Lockhart. It worked pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/25 "2007-10-15T12:21:47Z")
Mayim Bialik played a young Bette Midler in [Beaches](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094715/) Tarek Sharif played the young [Yuri Zhivago.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/). His father Omar played Dr.Zhivago (not to be confused with Omar Epps playing Dr. Eric Foreman, who is not Eric Foreman of That 70’s Show, though the later Eric’s father guest starred on House). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/26 "2007-10-15T14:05:21Z")
Didn’t Tobey Maguire play a young Woody Allen in **Deconstructing Harry**? I think that he was a character in his book, but the character was basically him as a young man. Am I remembering that right? It’s been a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/27 "2007-10-15T18:11:03Z")
[QUOTE=Leiko] In Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, there were many Spocks at a variety of ages, in addition to “original” Spock… [/QUOTE] There was also an (uncredited, acc. to [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com)) very small actor playing a newborn Spock - who was scorned by Sarek - in the execrable _Star Trek V: The Final Frontier_. Terence Stamp played younger and older versions of himself - in footage filmed decades apart, for a different movie entirely! - in _The Limey_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/28 "2007-10-15T18:23:28Z")
You guys and your high-brow movie viewing tastes. Jamie Lynn Spears played the younger version of her sister Britney’s character in _Crossroads_. (Dajine Colon and Crystal Milton also played younger versions of Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning in the same scene.) ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/29 "2007-10-15T18:29:01Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Terence Stamp played younger and older versions of himself - in footage filmed decades apart, for a different movie entirely! - in _The Limey_. [/QUOTE] I didn’t like that movie much, but that effect was cool! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/30 "2007-10-15T19:53:40Z")
Cary Elwes and Jon Voight played the same somewhat noteworthy Catholic dude, young and old, in the 2005 CBS TV movie _Pope John Paul II_. Voight was nominated for an Emmy. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/31 "2007-10-15T20:52:49Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] There was also an (uncredited, acc. to [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com)) very small actor playing a newborn Spock - who was scorned by Sarek - in the execrable _Star Trek V: The Final Frontier_. [/QUOTE] Sorry, you’re not allowed to make up movies that never existed. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/32 "2007-10-15T20:59:06Z")
If you count tv series, then in HBO’s Rome, Octavian was played by Max Pirkis and then Simon Woods. Lucius was played by Marco Pollack, Alessio Cuna and Stefan Brown. Vorena the younger was played by Anna Fausta Primiano and Valery Usai. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/33 "2007-10-15T21:09:51Z")
Morgan Freeman’s son played a teenaged Red (only in a photo) with Freeman the Elder playing the, well, elder Red in _The Shawshank Redemption_. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/34 "2007-10-15T21:10:07Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Sorry, you’re not allowed to make up movies that never existed. [/QUOTE] On that same aside, does anyone know why all the _Star Trek_ movies are even numbered? ---
**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:** [October 16, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/35 "2007-10-16T00:16:56Z")
Jena Malone played the young version of Jodie Foster’s character, Ellie Arroway, in _Contact_. Not sure if Malone counts as ‘fairly well known’ until later – although I’m pretty sure she’d already made _Bastard Out of Carolina_ – but it doesn’t seem like others are sticking to that provision of the OP, so what the heck. 🙂 Then there’s Wil Wheaton and Richard Dreyfus in _Stand By Me_. Also, Peggy Ann Garner/Joan Fontaine in _Jane Eyre_. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/36 "2007-10-16T00:39:06Z")
This years movie Evening features a couple of pairings; Claire Danes/Vanessa Redgrave and Mamie Gummer/Meryl Streep. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/37 "2007-10-16T04:31:29Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Sorry, you’re not allowed to make up movies that never existed. [/QUOTE] Well, I _did_ say that it was execrable. Even if, as you suggest, it never existed. 😉 Another one: George Bailey and his buddies were shown, young and old(er), in _It’s A Wonderful Life_. Not sure if any of the child actors went on to greater Hollywood fame. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/38 "2007-10-16T04:33:11Z")
[QUOTE=HelloNinja] Didn’t Tobey Maguire play a young Woody Allen in **Deconstructing Harry**? I think that he was a character in his book, but the character was basically him as a young man. Am I remembering that right? It’s been a long time. [/QUOTE] You could say that about a lot of the characters in a Woody Allen film. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/39 "2007-10-16T04:34:45Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] Morgan Freeman’s son played a teenaged Red (only in a photo) with Freeman the Elder playing the, well, elder Red in _The Shawshank Redemption_. [/QUOTE] But the son’s not very well known. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640/40 "2007-10-17T06:49:30Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] There was also an (uncredited, acc. to [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com)) very small actor playing a newborn Spock - who was scorned by Sarek - in the execrable _Star Trek V: The Final Frontier_. Terence Stamp played younger and older versions of himself - in footage filmed decades apart, for a different movie entirely! - in _The Limey_. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen Final Frontier exactly once, just to be able to say I saw it, and I’ve blocked it out of my mind so thoroughly that I don’t remember that scene. Or most of the scenes. I actually walked off and started browsing the internet while the movie was playing, so really I haven’t even seen the end. What film was the “different movie entirely”?\* \*Yes, I know, I could look it up on Wikipedia, but I have to get my schoolwork done soon and Wikipedia is a trap. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-old-actors-playing-same-role-in-one-film/422640.md?page=3)