Movie characters who have been played by more than one actor/actress?

[ohiosmith]

James Bond

[charlie and algernon]

1. Batman

[ohiosmith]

2. Good one!

[Bruce Wayne]

5. Wait, those first 5 played me, not Batman.

I don't even recognize who those last five actors are. But they're playing entirely different characters than me. And that fifth guy is wearing a bobble-head mask. What the hell...?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

20. You left out...

[geardaddy]

3. Bob Dylan

[ohiosmith]

6. Outstanding!

[YankeyMCC]

4. Phillip Marlow, Sherlock Holmes, James Kirk

Spock, McCoy, etc from Star Trek

[ohiosmith]

7. Good ones all!

[Bruce Wayne]

8. George Washington

David Morse, Kelsey Grammer

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Peter Graves, Barry Bostwick

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Jeff Daniels, Steve Martin

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[ohiosmith]

28. Excellent!

[Iggo]

9. A couple.

Clarice Starling: Jodie Foster, Julianne Moore
Jack Ryan: Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck

[RZM]

14. Don't forget Hannibal Lecter

Anthony Hopkins, of course, but also Brian Cox in the laughably crappy 'Manhunter' from 1986. 'Manhunter' stars William Peterson of CSI fame and even includes a cameo from Chris Elliot!

[sarge43]

10. Richard Nixon

Anthony Hopkins



Frank Langella

[NoPasaran]

75. Also Dan Hedaya

In "Dick".

[bluesbassman]

11. You left one off the list...

David Niven - Casino Royale, 1967



Technically Peter Sellers was also James Bond, but as he was a fake JB I'm not going to count it.

[Iggo]

13. Everyone was James Bond in that movie.

[bluesbassman]

16. Correct, but Niven was the only real one.

[ohiosmith]

31. Good catch! There is one other. Hint: did not play Bond on the big screen.

[Graybeard]

44. Barry Nelson was the first Bond.

It was a 1950s TV show based on a James Bond novel. I remember seeing it recently and that they kept referring to him as "Jimmy" which was jarring.

[ohiosmith]

45. You got it!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

12. Darth Vader

Alice
Batman
The Joker
Adolf Hitler
The Punisher
Inspector Clouseau


I would say Kirk & Spock, but that movie was ONLY A BAD DREAM DAMMIT! SOMEBODY SLIPPED LSD INTO MY DRINK!!! I HALLUCINATED THE WHOLE THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ohiosmith]

32. Brilliant!

[KamaAina]

47. Inspector Clouseau?

I, too, vividly recall the horrors of the egregious Pink Panther remake starring Steve Martin. However, he did not play Inspector Clouseau. He played Clifton Sleigh.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

51. OK, Busted- I never saw the Pink Panther remake.

Just assumed from the trailers Steve Martin was playing Clouseau. (He had just recently played Sgt. Bilko after all...)

I also seem to remember another Pink Panther movie made after Peter Sellers' death where someone played Clouseau's son (?) (Again- didn't see it)

[KamaAina]

54. I believe that was it

Clifton Sleigh was Clouseau's nephew or something.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

58. Just checked IMDb

The other movie I'm thinking of was Trail of the Pink Panther

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084814/plotsummary

But yes- the Clouseau relative evidently was the Steve Martin movie.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

63. On the other hand, if cartoons count....

[bluesbassman]

15. Wyatt Earp

1. Kevin Costner, Wyatt Earp (1994)
2. Kurt Russell, Tombstone (1993)
3. James Garner, Hour of the Gun (1967)
4. Guy Madison, Gunmen of the Rio Grande (1965)
5. James Stewart, Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
6. Burt Lancaster, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
7. Joel McCrea, Wichita (1955)
8. Henry Fonda, My Darling Clementine (1946)
9. Randolph Scott, Frontier Marshall (1939)
10. Errol Flynn, Dodge City (1939)

Here's a link to the list: http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2009/10/wyatt-earp-movies/

[RZM]

18. Don't forget Dale Harold as Wyatt Earp in 'Deadwood'

Only a one-episode cameo where most of the lines went to his brother Morgan.

[ohiosmith]

33. Outstanding!

[edbermac]

17. Don Corleone

Old - Brando, Young - DeNiro

[ohiosmith]

35. And........Oreste Baldini:

[edbermac]

40. Very good, forgot about him.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. Buck Rogers & Flash Gordon

& Klaatu

[ohiosmith]

39. Yep!

[Taverner]

21. Captain Woodrow F. Call

From quite possibly the most honest Western ever written

[ohiosmith]

41. Good one!

[hifiguy]

22. Clarice Starling

Jodie Foster in "Silence of the Lambs"
Julianne Moore in "Hannibal"

[ohiosmith]

43. Very good!

[cyberswede]

23. Charlie Chan

Warner Oland (1931-1937)


Sidney Toler (1938-46)


Roland Winters (1947-49)


J Carrol Naish (1957-58 tv series)


Ross Martin (1973)


Peter Ustinov (1981)

[ohiosmith]

46. Indeed!

[Major Nikon]

24. Sherlock Holmes

However, there can be only one...
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[cyberswede]

25. Indeed - Brett was SO good!

...have you seen the recent BBC show "Sherlock?" I like it (seris 1 is on Netflix streaming).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/07_july/12/sherlock3.shtml

[ohiosmith]

48. Excellent!

[LynneSin]

26. Queen Elizabeth I

Bette Davis


Judy Dench

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI5MDc4ODAwMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzEzNzQzMQ@@._V1._SY317_CR3,0,214,317_.jpg
Helen Mirren


Cate Blanchett

Whole bunch more too

[CBHagman]

29. A role Glenda Jackson played too.

Ms. Jackson moved on to politics, but she's a powerhouse actress too.

[Doc_Technical]

37. Don't forget Quentin Crisp.

That is one strange film.

[ohiosmith]

56. Outstanding!

[Hayabusa]

73. You forgot to mention...

Miranda Richardson?! Off with your head! Right, Nursie?

[CBHagman]

27. Sleuthing schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers, played by...

....Edna May Oliver, ZaSu Pitts, Helen Broderick, Eve Arden, and Agnes Moorehead in various films and TV shows.

Here's Oliver with costar James Gleason.

[ohiosmith]

59. Very good!

[CBGLuthier]

30. Dracula. A lot of people have played Dracula

Lugosi, Carradine, Lee, Langella, Oldman and those are just the really good ones.

[ohiosmith]

61. Excellent!

[LeftinOH]

34. (The Unsinkable) Molly Brown:

Thelma Ritter (1952)
Debbie Reynolds (1964)
Cloris Leachman (1979)TV
Marilu Henner (1996)TV
Kathy Bates (1997)
...and a number of others, too.
Here's Thelma, third from right

[ohiosmith]

62. Yes!

[CBHagman]

76. I knew about Debbie Reynolds and Kathy Bates but not Thelma Ritter.

Thelma Ritter: one of my favorite character actresses of all time. Never miss a chance to see her in anything.

[El Supremo]

36. George Smiley

Rupert Davies 1965
Sir Alec Guinness 1979 & 1982
Gary Oldman 2011

and others

[ohiosmith]

64. Outstanding!

[Dr. Strange]

38. Dr. Who

Kirk & Spock?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

42. Dr.Who fought the Daleks twice on the big screen

both times played by Peter Cushing. The rest were all on TV.

I'm also in denial about that last Star Trek movie & refuse to admit it exists.

[ohiosmith]

69. Yes sir!

[bluesbassman]

49. 85 years of Tarzan!

Elmo Lincoln '18 to '21
Gene Pollar '20
James Pierce '27
Frank Merrill '28 to '29
Johnny Weissmuller '32 to '48
Buster Crabbe '33
Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett) '35 & '38
Glen Morris '38
Lex Barker '49 to '53
Gordon Scott '55 to '60
Denny Miller '59
Jock Mahoney '62 to '62
Mike Henry '66 to '68
Ron Ely '66 to '71
Miles O'Keefe '81
Chris Lambert '84
Joe Lara '89 & '96
Wolf Larson '91 to '94
Casper Van Dien '98
Tavis Fimmel '03

Lots of great info at this link. Some amazing film history.
http://www.squidoo.com/Actors_Who_Have_Played_Tarzan

[Bruce Wayne]

55. Ron Ely will always be Tarzan to me.

He wore only a loin cloth, but took the time to grease his hair back, early 60s style.

[ohiosmith]

72. Gotta go with Johnny. A friend once owned his home here in Vegas. I swam in the pool. The very same

pool Johnny swam in.

[ohiosmith]

70. Excellent!

[Graybeard]

50. Scrooge

Seymour Hicks
Reginald Owen
Lionel Barrymore (radio)
Orson Welles (radio)
Alistair Sim
Fredric March (TV)
Basil Rathbone (TV)
George C Scott
Albert Finney
Patrick Stewart
Michael Caine
Bill Murray
Scrooge McDuck
Mr. Magoo
Jim Carrey

And there are a LOT more (in stage productions, etc.)

[ohiosmith]

74. YES!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. P.D. James' Inspector Dalgliesh

Roy Marsden (1983-1998)
Martin Shaw (2003--)

[ohiosmith]

77. Very good!

[Bruce Wayne]

53. Hmm, only 6 or 7 Bonds. But how many Felix Leiters?

At least ten, going by Wikipedia.

Michael Pate (as "Clarence Leiter&quot (1954)
Jack Lord (1962)
Cec Linder (1964)
Rik Van Nutter (1965)
Norman Burton (1971)
David Hedison (1973 & 1989)
Bernie Casey (1983)
John Terry (1987)
Jeffrey Wright (2006–2008)
Bernie Casey (1983)


Five Ms (Connery and Moore shared a boss, as did Daniel Craig and Remington Steele)

Bernard Lee (1962–1979)
John Huston (1967)
Robert Brown (1983–1989)
Edward Fox (1983)
Judi Dench (1995–present)


Five Miss Moneypennys

Lois Maxwell (1962–1985)
Barbara Bouchet (1967)
Pamela Salem (1983)
Caroline Bliss (1987–1989)
Samantha Bond (1995–2002)


and six Qs

Peter Burton (1962)
Desmond Llewelyn (1963–1999)
Geoffrey Bayldon (1967)
Alec McCowen (1983)
John Cleese (1999–2002)
Ben Whishaw (2012)

[ohiosmith]

79. That is awesome!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

57. How about King Arthur?

[ohiosmith]

80. Yes indeed!

[avebury]

90. Iaon Gruffold (pictured above) played Lancelot not Arthur.

Richard Gere - First Knight
Franco Nero - Camelot
John Cleese - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Luc Simon - Lancelot du Lac
Nicholas Clay - Excalibur
Michael Vartan - Mists of Avalon (TV Mini-series)

several more in various films

[WhoIsNumberNone]

92. Another movie I didn't see

But his picture came up a bunch of times when I did the Google search, so i just assumed...

[harmonicon]

108. No!! Graham Chapman played Arthur!! John Cleese could never handle such a role. nt.

[bikebloke]

104. Jamie Campbell Bower

A young Arthur.

[Moondog]

60. Miss Marple.

[ohiosmith]

81. Very good!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

85. Including

Margaret Rutherford
Joan Hickson (my favorite)
Geraldine McEwan
Julia McKenzie

[Graybeard]

65. Robin Hood

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Erroll Flynn
Jon Hall
John Derek
Richard Todd
Richard Greene (TV)
Sean Connery
Kevin Costner
Cary Elwes
Russell Crowe

And let's not forget "Robin and the
Seven Hoods" with Robbo played by
Frank Sinatra!

[ohiosmith]

82. Outstanding!

[dimbear]

66. Frankenstein's monster Adam has to be way up there.....

Starting with Edison's version and going from there

[ohiosmith]

91. Excellent!

[Kaleva]

67. The inverse of this is John Wayne

John Wayne the actor played numerous characters that were essentially John Wayne the cultural myth.

[ohiosmith]

93. Right. Very few individuals with so little talent have been as successful.

[Curmudgeoness]

68. Scrooge, Ebenezer Scrooge.

In researching how many actors have played Scrooge, I was blown away....although none are as good as Alastair Sim if you ask me.

From Wikipedia:

Scrooge has been portrayed by:

Tom Ricketts in 1908
Marc McDermott in 1910
Seymour Hicks in 1913 and again in 1935
Rupert Julian in 1916
Russell Thorndike in 1923
Lionel Barrymore on radio throughout the 1930s and 1940s
John Barrymore on radio, for ailing brother Lionel 1930s
Orson Welles in 1939 on radio replacing Lionel Barrymore for one appearance only.
Reginald Owen in 1938
John Carradine in 1947
Malcolm Keen in 1947
Taylor Holmes in 1949
Bransby Williams in 1950
Alastair Sim in 1951, and again in 1971 (voice)
Fredric March in 1954
Basil Rathbone in 1956 and 1958
Stan Freberg in Green Chri$tma$, 1958. "Mr Scrooge" is portrayed as an advertising executive "...trying to find new ways of tying their product into Christmas." The satirical skit was so sarcastic that sponsors threatened to pull their ads from any radio station that dared play it. As a result, the skit received very little airplay until 1983, and still doesn't get much.
Jim Backus (as Quincy Magoo) in Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, 1962
Cyril Ritchard in 1964
Wilfrid Brambell in a 1966 radio musical version (adapted from his Broadway role)
Sid James in the Carry On Christmas Specials, 1969
Albert Finney in 1970
Marcel Marceau in 1973
Michael Hordern in 1977
Rich Little as W.C. Fields playing Scrooge in Rich Little's Christmas Carol, 1978
Walter Matthau (voice) in The Stingiest Man in Town, 1978
Henry Winkler as Benedict Slade in An American Christmas Carol, 1979
Hoyt Axton as Cyrus Flint in Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol, 1979
Alan Young (as Scrooge McDuck) in Mickey's Christmas Carol, 1983
George C. Scott in 1984
Robert Guillaume as John Grin in John Grin's Christmas, 1986
Bill Murray as Frank Cross in Scrooged, 1988
Buddy Hackett (as himself) played Scrooge in the film-within-a-film.
Rowan Atkinson as Ebenezer Blackadder in Blackadder's Christmas Carol, 1988
Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992
Jeffrey Sanzel has appeared in more than 1,000 stage performances since 1992
James Earl Jones in Bah, Humbug, 1994
Henry Corden (as Fred Flintstone) in A Flintstones Christmas Carol, 1994
Susan Lucci as Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge in Ebbie, 1995
Beavis as Beavis Scrooge, 1995
Cicely Tyson as Ebenita Scrooge in Ms. Scrooge, 1997
Tim Curry (voice) in 1997
Jack Palance in Ebenezer, 1997
Patrick Stewart in 1999
Vanessa Williams as Ebony Scrooge in A Diva's Christmas Carol, 2000
Ross Kemp as Eddie Scrooge in 2000
Dean Jones in Scrooge and Marley, 2001
Tori Spelling as "Scroogette" Carol Cartman in A Carol Christmas, 2003
Kelsey Grammer in 2004
Bill Bourne in The Carol Project, 2006
Joe Alaskey (as Daffy Duck) in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas, 2006
Helen Fraser as Sylvia Hollamby in Bad Girls 2006 Christmas Special
Morwenna Banks as Eden Starling (Barbie) in Barbie in a Christmas Carol, 2008
Jim Carrey in 2009 (Carrey also played the three spirits haunting Scrooge).[7]
Catherine Tate as Nan in "Nan's Christmas Carol", 2009
Christina Milian as Sloane Spencer in "Christmas Cupid," December 2010
Eric Braeden as Victor Newman in "Victor's Christmas Carol" on The Young and the Restless, December 2010
Michael Gambon as Kazran Sardick in "A Christmas Carol" on Doctor Who, December 2010.[8][9]

[ohiosmith]

94. Great one!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

71. Could it be....

[Graybeard]

78. More great Satans...

Walter Huston - The Devil and Daniel Webster

Ray Walston - Damn Yankees

Robert De Niro - Angel Heart

Gabriel Byrne - End Of Days

Max Von Sydow - Needful Things

[ohiosmith]

95. Oooo! Good one!

[A Simple Game]

106. At least one of those is a flip/flopper. So I know there has been more than one God too. n/t

[WhoIsNumberNone]

107. George Burns, Morgan Freeman and

Off the top of my head...

[Broken_Hero]

83. Superman....

Kirk Allyn-Superman vs Atom Man(was also Lois dad in Superman the Movie, the train part).

Christopher Reeve-Superman the Movie, Superman II, Superman III, and Superman IV the Quest for Peace

Brandon Routh-Superman Returns

Henry Cavill-Man of Steel, due out summer of 2013.

Also George Reeves, Dean Cain, and Tom Welling who played Superman in TV.

[ohiosmith]

96. YES!

[Initech]

84. The Joker

Cesar Romero:



Jack Nicholson:



Heath Ledger:

[ohiosmith]

98. Absolutely!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

86. Queen Victoria

Annette Crosbie
Judi Dench
Pauline Collins
Emily Blunt and probably some others I haven't seen

[Graybeard]

89. Irene Dunne in The Mudlark

Wonderful make-up.

[ohiosmith]

99. Yep!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

87. Henry V

Sir Lawrence Olivier
Kenneth Branagh

[ohiosmith]

100. Very good!

[CBHagman]

88. Fitzwilliam Darcy in "Pride and Prejudice."

Laurence Olivier, in 1940:




David Rintoul:




Colin Firth, in 1995:




More recently, Matthew Macfadyen:

[ohiosmith]

101. Excellent!

[Divameow77]

97. Dumbledore

Richard Harris & Michael Gambon

[ohiosmith]

102. Cool!

[book lady]

103. Othello

Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, and Laurence Fishburne to name just three

[ohiosmith]

105. Brilliant!

[Lars39]

109. Hercule Poirot

[ohiosmith]

112. Yep!

[kwassa]

110. How about two actresses playing the same role in the same movie?

"That Obscure Object of Desire" directed by Luis Bunuel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Obscure_Object_of_Desire

A dysfunctional and sometimes violent romance between Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a middle-aged, wealthy Frenchman, and Conchita (Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina), a young, impoverished and beautiful flamenco dancer from Seville (two actresses play one character—Conchita—each appearing unpredictably in separate scenes). The two actresses differ not only physically, but temperamentally as well.

Why did Bunuel do this?

In 1977, in Madrid, when I was in despair after a tempestuous argument with an actress who'd brought the shooting of That Obscure Object of Desire to a halt, the producer, Serge Silberman, decided to abandon the film altogether. The considerable financial loss was depressing us both until one evening, when we were drowning our sorrows in a bar, I suddenly had the idea (after two dry martinis) of using two actresses in the same role, a tactic that had never been tried before. Although I made the suggestion as a joke, Silberman loved it, and the film was saved.

The book does not identify the actress who had caused the "tempestuous argument," though Buñuel makes it clear (p. 250) that she was neither Carole Bouquet nor Angela Molina.

In Luis Buñuel: The Complete Films (2005), editors Bill Krohn and Paul Duncan identify the actress as Maria Schneider, writing (pp. 177-78) the following in regard to the idea of using two actresses to play Conchita:

... Buñuel found himself proposing it to Silberman when it became clear after three days of shooting that Maria Schneider was indeed not going to be able to play the part. Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina stepped in ...

[ohiosmith]

113. Very good!

[CBHagman]

111. FDR and Abraham Lincoln.

FDR has been played by Kenneth Branagh and Len Cariou, for starters, and of course Lincoln has been portrayed by an array of actors, including Raymond Massey, Henry Fonda, and, in an as yet unreleased Steven Spielberg production, Daniel Day-Lewis.

[ohiosmith]

114. Excellent!

[Graybeard]

115. More FDRs. More Abes.

Lincoln:
Walter Huston -Abraham Lincoln 1930)
Hal Holbrook -Lincoln - (1975)
Gregory Peck - The Blue and The Gray (1982)
Hal Holbrook - North and South - (1985)
F. Murray Abraham - Dream West (1986)
Sam Waterston - Lincoln (1988)
Jason Robards,Jr - The Perfect Tribute (1991)

FDR:
Ralph Bellamy - Sunrise At Campobello (1960)
Edward Herrmann - Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
Dan O'Herlihy -MacArthur (1977)
Jason Robard. Jr - FDR, The Last Year (1980)
Edward Herrmann - Annie (1982)
Jon Voight - Pearl Harbor (2001)

Note: One actor who has played BOTH Lincoln
and FDR: Jason Robards, Jr.

[Graybeard]

116. Joan Of Arc

Maria Falconetti - 1928
Ingrid Bergman - 1948
Jean Seberg - 1957
Siobhan McKenna - 1958 (TV)
Genevieve Bujold - 1967 (TV)
Milla Jovovich - 1999
LeeLee Sobieski - 1999 (TV)

Plus many, many European versions.