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Same actor, same character, different films
Posted by Ravi Naik on 12 September 2010 - 4:44pm.
I saw Jackie Brown again the other night, and the minor character, ATF agent Ray Nicolette, was played by Michael Keaton. In another Elmore Leonard-penned film, Out of Sight, he plays the same, slightly smug n'creepy character.
It got me thinking about other times when actors have been cast in exactly the same role in different films. The only other example I can think of is Michael Sheen playing Tony Blair in The Deal and The Queen.
Are there any other examples? Obviously, I'm not talking about sequels here, nor am I talking about when actors are fundamentally the same in every film they're in (ie: Clint Eastwood and John Cusack).
Any ideas, Word Massive?
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For all intents and purposes
Ralph Brown reprised 'Danny the Dealer' from Withnail and I for the 2nd Waynes World film
Never realised that one -
Never realised that one - good spot
Off the topic but
I still can't believe the same bloke also played Frank Morgan in Life on Mars.
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As you were.
Tom DiCillo's The Real Blonde
has a cameo by Steve Buscemi playing the same character he played in DiCillo's previous film Living In Oblivion.
Anthony Heald
played Dr Fredrick Chilton in "Silence of the Lambs" and the prequel(done later) "Red Dragon". Same goes for Sir Anthony, but I'd rather it was Brian Cox.
Mind you, it's a franchise, isn't it? Sorry.
Although st could be argued
that they are part of a film series. Jay and Silent Bob appear in
Clerks, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay n Silent Bob Strike Back, Afroman's 'Because I Got High' video and Scream 3.
And maybe some other things but i've lost faith\contact with Kevin Smiths world of late
A couple more....
Randolph and Mortimer (the Duke brothers) appear in Trading Places and then have a small cameo (as hobos) in Coming to America.
I also always like to think that John Cusack's Martin Blank in Grosse Point Blank is essentially the grown up version of Lloyd Dobler from Say Anything.
As a a cameo
Robert Patrick is the T-1000 Terminator cop in Waynes World as in Terminator II
and...
...a walk on cameo as the T-1000 in the dreadful Last Action Hero
More Sean Connery films
Than I care to mention
Edit--sorry, I reread your original post. Nothing to see here, please move on.
Bruce Spence...
...in Mad Max 2 & 3.One may be the Gyro Captain & one may be Jedediah The Pilot, but you're not fooling me...
Charters and Caldicott
Two cricket obsessed English gents who appeared in The Lady Vanishes, Night Train to Munich and a few more otherwise unrelated films, I believe.
Jeanette Charles.
Jeanette Charles has played HM The Queen in many films, including Naked Gun, All You Need Is Cash and one of the National Lampoon films.
Sort of in the same arena
I would love to see Nick Cotton turn up at the Rovers. Or Tommy McArdle set up a stall on Albert Square. We all know that they are bad 'uns but their new friends don't. We can see how they lie about their past - and everything.
Gene Hackman
It's strongly hinted that the character he plays in the Will Smith film Enemy Of The State is Harry Caul, last seen in Coppola's The Conversation.
And ever since I found out that Richard Dreyfuss plays Matt Hooper in Piranha 3D, I want to see it even more.
Dreyfuss isn't Hooper
Dreyfuss isn't Hooper; he's a fisherman called Matthew Boyd.
How annoying
I read an interview with him in which he said that he was reprising his role from Jaws.
What about Joe Pesci?
Didn't he play exactly the same part in Goodfellas and Casino?
;-)
He did.
As did Bob De Niro. But with better suits in Casino.
Michael Parks Plays Sheriff Earl McGraw
In From Dusk Til Dawn, Kill Bill, Planet Terror and Death Proof
Frankie Faison played Barney in all of the Hopkins Lecter films as well as a cop in Manhunter.
Keith Allen
Does he play the same character in 'Shallow Grave' as he does in 'Trainspotting'?
Sorry
thought we were talking about actors!
Murphy Dunne plays
a crazed cocktail pianist in The Big Bus, basically a more out-there version of the cocktail pianist he plays in High Anxiety. He then went on to play Murph in The Blues Brothers, again tickling the ivories, and in a scene near the beginning you see him once more in lounge lizard mode in a cocktail bar! Basically the same part 3 times.
Jean Reno
It seems his character in the film Leon is the same person as The Cleaner, his character in Nikita
Paul Newman
plays 'Fast' Eddie Felson in The Hustler and 25 years later in The Color of Money.
Ian Hart as John Lennon...
...in The Hours and Times (1991) and in Backbeat (1994)(may be a bit obvious to the Massive but can't see it mentioned here)
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Harvey Keitel
The character he played in Pulp Fiction, who cleaned up the bloody mess after they accidentally shot the guy in the back of the car, I'm sure he played that same character again in another unrelated film, but can't remember which one.
Mr Wolf
The well organised guy in 'Pulp Fiction'.
Welcome back old thread
Almost a year to the day, I rediscover this thread and I have your answer: HK played a very similar part to Mr Wolf in the truly atrocious US remake of Nikita, The Assassin. I don't think the character had a name (or a character), being referred to merely as The Cleaner.
Sheen again
Thank you for all your suggestions, I take them and trump them with Michael Sheen playing Tony Blair (again) - this time in The Special Relationship. Impressive...though bloody lazy on the part of the casting directors.
Bet he's rubbing his hands with glee at the thought of Blair's "A Journey" being made into a movie
I got one that tops all of these. Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins plays Shmee in "Hook"
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And then Shmee in "Neverland", an unconnected Peter Pan based movie.
http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/sky-movies-to-premiere-neverland-with...
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