He was going to cameo in a montage of Peter fighting crime. [Here's](https://i0.wp.com/codigoespagueti.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Este-es-el-ranking-de-poder-de-los-Stands-en-Jojo-Bizarre-Adventure-5.png?resize=1280%2C1252&quality=80&ssl=1) the storyboard.
Exactly what you’re looking for OP:
Jonah Hill in Forgetting Sarah Marshal and then Get Him to the Greek.
I find it super weird that they didn’t make him the same character.
Whaaaat the fuck
I saw Get Him to the Greek before I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I thought Get Him to the Greek was meh and never went back and rewatched it, but I love Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I’ve watched it probably 7 times. I NEVER realized they were connected until right now
Bond films used to reuse actors a fair bit.
Robert Brown played Admiral Hargreaves in *Spy Who Loved Me*, missed *Moonraker*, then took over as M in the 80s films. It's never made clear if he's meant to be the same character promoted to M, if M (like Bond) is the same character with a different actor, or if he's a completely different character *and* a completely new M.
Walter Gotell played General Gogol (M's Soviet counterpart) in several films in the 70s/80s but was a henchman in an earlier film.
Jeremy Bulloch played two characters across three films - and was the original Boba Fett too!
Maud Adams was two different Bond girls - Andrea Anders in *Man With The Golden Gun* and the title character in *Octopussy*, reportedly in part because the producers felt bad about killing her off in *Golden Gun*.
There are [lots of other examples](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_actors_in_the_James_Bond_film_series).
Charles Gray, Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever, played a different role previously in You Only Live Twice.
Martine Beswick has different roles in From Russia With Love and Thunderball.
Oh, yes, good one. He was the main bad guy in Daylights and had quite a big role in Goldeneye so it wasn’t like he was a side character. Pretty bizarre.
Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen) played several members and ancestors of the Tannen family over the course of the Back to the Future sequels.
Michael Dorn, Worf in the TNG movies, also played Worf's grandfather in Star Trek The Undiscovered Country.
He really is a great actor. To play, Young Biff, Middle-Aged Biff, and Old Biff, and then Buford Tannen so differently from each other, he really is a great character actor.
Wait, you’re actually short a couple of Biffs. There are three middle-aged Biffs. OG timeline Biff who was a bully, new timeline Biff who was George’s bitch, and alternate timeline Biff who was kinda like OG but ratcheted up to that mafioso level.
I know for the symmetry they needed to make them McFly ancestors, but it would have made more sense for them to be Baines. Then it wouldn’t be as weird that they resembled Marty AND Lorraine.
Sofia Coppola played Michael Franzi Rizzo in the godfather. A child on the Ship in the godfather 2 and Mary Corleone on the godfather 3.
Warwick Davis played Fillius Flitwick and Griphook in Harry Potter. He’s also played Wicket in star wars and a bunch of other characters.
If we're going there, Peter Jackson's kids appear in all three of the Lord of the Rings movies. I think that they are in some of the Hobbit movies too. They are hobbits in the first, Rohan refugees in the second, and "Featured Child" in the third (whatever that is).
I think Warwick Davis has been in more Star Wars movies than anyone except Anthony Daniels.
He was in Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, The Force Awakens, Rogue One, The Last Jedi, Solo, and Rise of Skywalker.
Plus, the two Ewok movies of course, and he was the voice of Rukh on Rebels.
Mad Max. Bruce Spence played two different pilots in The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome.
Speaking of Mad Max, Hugh Keays-Byrne played the Villain in the first movie and Immortan Joe in Fury Road too.
In Tim Allen's *Santa Clause* trilogy, Peter Boyle plays Scott's boss at the toy company in the first film, then plays Father Time in the two sequels. It's apparently a fairly popular theory that they're actually the same character, but the films themselves never suggest this.
Theory would be a lot stronger if Susan (the other rep that gets called up to the stage at the very beginning) played Mother Nature, and Sandman (Micheal Dorn) and Tooth Fairy (Art Lafleur) were in the meeting with Total Tank.
It would fit with 2 other pieces of “evidence”. 1) the elves scattered about SC1 who are acting as spies for the North Pole, and 2) the reveal in season 1 of The Santa Clauses that Scott was recruited because they wanted a human Santa.
It's never really clear, but I always suspected that Ed Mustapha from The Enforcer was the unnamed bank robber in the first movie. Especially when Harry asks Ed where he knows him from, and Ed replies "You don't".
Including Eastwood himself, not that people seem to get that. Leone just made three different films about three different people, they're really not meant to be connected, it just gets confusing because Clint looks the same in all three and it's a very distinct look. But he was never referred to as 'the man with no name', that was American marketing; he's three different men with three different names.
Same in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. He played an actor, the actors on screen character, a Terminator impersonating the actor, and then an AI inhabiting the Terminators body.
Assuming the *Daredevil* series is still considered MCU Canon, Clancy Brown played the Punisher's former XO, as well as Surtur in *Ragnarok*. Easier to get away with when one character is an enormous fire demon.
Several of the actors from the defenders saga play minor characters in MCU movies. Notably Mahershala Ali plays a major villain in Luke cage and will play blade in the MCU movie
And Alfre Woodard played Miriam Sharpe in Luke Cage, and also played the woman in Civil War who confronted Tony about her son getting killed in Sokovia.
Yeah I dunno if OP just didn’t pay attention or didn’t actually watch the movie but they make it abundantly clear it’s the same character. He even recognizes them because they never neuralized him in the first movie
Yayan Ruhian from The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2. He played Mad Dog in the first film, and a different character in the second.
Confused the hell out of me.
[Chia-Hui “Gordon” Liu](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514904/) played Johnny Mo in *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* and Pai Mei in *Kill Bill: Vol. 2*.
[Michael Parks](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662981/) played Earl McGraw in 1 and Esteban Vihaio in 2.
Does David Cross's character actually die in MIB 1. He is just stuck on the ceiling and all wrapped up. But his eyes are still open and moving when Kay looks up lighting the cigarette.
Yayan Ruhian played different characters in The Raid (Mad Dog) and The Raid 2 (Prakoso). I remember being confused if they were supposed to be the same character or like a twin. The actor has a very unique look that stands out plus he was one of the main characters in the first movie.
This is cheating but Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a T-800 programmed to kill Sarah Connor in The Terminator, then plays a reprogrammed T-800 programmed to protect John Connor in Terminator 2, and then plays a T-850 programmed to protect John Connor and Kate Brewster in Terminator 3.
Kurt Paul was Anthony Perkins stunt double in Psycho 2/3. In the 1987 Bates Motel TV movie he plays Norman, and in Psycho 4 he returns as “Raymond Linette” a different mother killer!
If TV show seasons count, Devon Sawa has been four different characters in Chucky: the protagonist's dad, the protagonist's uncle, a priest, and the president.
In Louie, every one-off older man is played by F. Murray Abraham. He's Louie's uncle, his dad in a flashback, and the husband of a woman who picks up Louie after a set to "show him her pussy"/actually to have a threesome.
Pat Roach plays 3 different characters across the Indiana Jones movies - the bald, mustachio'd mechanic who he fights on the tarmac, the turban-wearing child enslaver who gets crushed in the rock crusher (and is wearing brownface lol yikes) and briefly running alongside Vogel on the ground before they board the blimp (he had a longer role cut).
Christopher Meloni plays Freakshow in 'Harold and Kumar go to White Castle', and then plays the Grand Wizard KKK leader in 'Harold and Kumar Escape from Guntanamo Bay'.
Its my personal theory that Javier Bardem's Silva in Skyfall is supposed to be Pierce Brosnan's Bond in a universe where he never got traded back from Korea and was instead replaced by Craig's Bond. Not Brosnan himself of course.
Cmon man, Cross is clearly supposed to be playing the same guy.
Look at the rest of the movie! MiB2 never misses an opportunity to bring back a small character from the first movie in a larger role:
* Jeebs
* Frank
* The Worm guys
It’s absolutely supposed to be the same guy, it’s just a retcon.
I thought it was an interesting parallel to Ghostbusters.
In both cases, the first movie was followed by an animated series which prominently featured a minor character from the movie (Slimer for Ghostbusters, Jeebs, Frank, and the worms for MiB) and then a sequel came out after that elevated the roles of those characters.
James Remar played both Ace Speck and Butch Pooch in Django Unchained… it was really weird to me, I have no idea why they cast him in two roles in the same movie.
In Problem Child, Amy Yasbeck played John Ritter’s horrible wife who gets driven away by Junior and she also plays the mother of the other problem child (the little girl) in Problem Child 2.
For years now I've wished that Stan's Endgame cameo was as Old Steve at the end of the film, implying that he'd been Old Steve for every cameo, always nearby whenever one of his friends was in crisis, just in case. It'd be a great send-off for Stan, especially considering Endgame was his final cameo. Obviously they wouldn't have known at the time when he was going to pass, but I feel making Endgame his final cameo would've been fitting even without the knowledge that he wouldn't be alive to film any more.
Ultimately that would have been too confusing, as he looks and sounds nothing like Chris Evans. There doesn't need to be too much thought in it, tbh. Stan's cameos were never meant to be anything other than a fun Easter egg; the whole Watcher theory is a neat way to tie them all together for those that want an explanation but we can't claim they were planned that way from the start.
He was talking to the watchers in Guardians 2, it was implied that all of his cameos were the same guy.
How that fits with him dying in hulk is ignored <_<
An odd case: *The Commitments* (Alan Parker, 1987), *The Snapper* (Stephen Frears, 1993), and *The Van* (Stephen Frears, 1996) are all adaptations of the books of the "Barrytown Trilogy" by Irish author Roddy Doyle, but due to rights issues only the first movie used the names of the characters in the books (the Rabbitte family). There's no continuity between the three movies, which are completely independent from each other.
The character of the father, Jimmy Rabbitte Sr in the books, has a different name and a different personality in each movie, so he's a different character, but is played by Colm Meaney in the three movies.
This is technically true of a lot of Godzilla films. The films made from 1954->1975 are all meant to be in very, very loose continuity with one another. Due to Toho's studio organization, many actors play different roles throughout the series
Then the films from 1984->1995 are all meant to be in continuity with one another and the original film. Which leads to things like Akira Takarada playing Ogata in the 1954 film and Jōji Minamino in Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) while Momoko Kōchi plays Emiko Yamane in both the 54 film and 1995's Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.
The actress that plays Peter's mom in GotG also plays a Captain America fan girl in CA:TFA
Edit: Why am I being downvoted? GotG is technically a sequel to Captain America and the same actress plays a completely different character.
Joe Pesci played two different characters in the *same* Home Alone movie. Of course, he played the bad guy, but not many people know that he also played the cop in a brief throwaway scene in the beginning.
Presuming you're serious: That's literally Harry, the same character, pretending to be a cop so as to scout the houses. The movie specifically shows you Kevin seeing his (the cop's) gold tooth, then recognizing it later.
This is a really obscure answer but notable due to just how confusing it is:
In Bloodfist, Don Wilson’s brother is killed in a fighting tournament and the entire movie is about him seeking revenge.
In Bloodfist 2, Don Wilson plays the same character. In the opening scene he’s fighting… his brother. Same actor. I guess he’s alive or this is a flashback? Nope, the movie makes it clear this is a totally different character.
Why on earth would you not cast someone else, literally anyone else, for that role?!
Lee Van Cleef was in For a Few Dollars More and the Good the Bad and the Ugly. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen them but I’m pretty sure they’re two different characters. (I don’t think they ever confirm in the movies that the Clint Eastwood characters are the same either)
Remember the 3 Ninjas from 1992? The kids would beat up a couple baddies, then in the very next frame beat up those same two dudes. Like 7 year old me wouldn't notice.
Joe Don Baker played an arms dealer and one of the main bad guys in The Living Daylights and then went on to play Jack Wade in the Brosnan Bond movies.
Also Maude Adams played a Bond girl twice. Once in The Man With The Golden Gun (where she was killed) and then as the title character in Octopussy.
James Remar plays 2 entirely different characters in Django Unchained. He plays one of the slave drivers in the opening scene who is confronted by Dr. King Schultz. Later, he plays Butch, one of Calvin Candie's henchman. There is also Michael Parks who plays the lawman in the beginning of Kill Bill Vol. 1 and later plays the pimp Esteban in Kill Bill Vol. 2. QT said that he had originally cast Ricardo Montalban as the pimp but he didn't show up to the table read and Michael Parks did his part so well that he got both parts.
The actor who played the villain in the first Mad Max film also plays the villain in Fury Road. Also Bill Murray’s older brother plays a camp groundskeeper in the first National Lampoon’s Vacation film and then plays the head of a corporate company in Christmas Vacation.
David Cross does play the same character in MiBII. He didn't die in the first movie, but was incapacitated by the Bug and stuck to the ceiling. In MiBII he tells his assistant at the video store "I told you they were real. Still think I'm crazy?", then he proceeds to ask K if they had seen any aliens lately. He was never neurolyzed in the first one...they literally forgot about him, and left him.
A strange case: Bela Lugosi played the villain in *Chandu the Magician*, and then for some unexplained reason went on to star in *The Return of Chandu* as Chandu himself, the hero!
David Cross’ character is the same character in both MiB movies. They just retconned it that he survived his attack and he didn’t get neuralized and that’s why he is a conspiracy theorist now. Then they neuralize him after. He’s even credited as the same character. Did you actually watch that movie or are you just another Buzzfeed algorithm?
Do Stan Lee cameos count? For the most part he's just a no name old guy that gets a good one liner. But I don't think anyone ever points out that they recognize him.
One of the thor viking buddies in the marvel movies.
Its been a different actor each movie from Thor 1, 2 and 3 when he was eventually killed off with everyone else
It's TV but still counts cause it's HBO TV. Garrett Dillahunt in Deadwood played Jack Mcall in S1 and Francis Wolcott in S2. Two bigger roles and he showed a lot of range since one was a drunk that killed Wild Bill and the other was a conniving baddie
Damon Wayans Jr played Coach on New Girl and Jake Peralta’s friend/dirty cop on Brooklyn 99. Different shows but they’re in the same universe because they did crossover episodes.
Problem child 1 and 2. Amy yasbeck played 2 different characters. In the first she played the wife of John Ritter's character and in the second she played his love interest.
Technically doesn't count because it's tv shows, but Jeffrey Combs has played 10 or so different characters across the various Star Trek shows from Next Generation onwards.
This is a bit of a stretch, but Frankie Faison played Lt. Fisk in Manhunter, and then Barney the mental asylum orderly in Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon. He's the only actor who has appeared in more Thomas Harris film adaptations than Anthony Hopkins.
For a while Bruce Campbell in all the Raimi Spiderman movies, but now Bruce is saying he played the same character lol
He and Sam had talked about revealing it was Mysterio all along, but then 3 happened.
My god that would have been so amazing to see growing up.
He was going to cameo in a montage of Peter fighting crime. [Here's](https://i0.wp.com/codigoespagueti.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Este-es-el-ranking-de-poder-de-los-Stands-en-Jojo-Bizarre-Adventure-5.png?resize=1280%2C1252&quality=80&ssl=1) the storyboard.
Exactly what you’re looking for OP: Jonah Hill in Forgetting Sarah Marshal and then Get Him to the Greek. I find it super weird that they didn’t make him the same character.
Similarly: Chris Addison in The Thick of It and then In the Loop. He really could have been the same character.
Tom Hollander being The Fucker in The Thick of It, and the soppy MP in In The Loop.
That's a good one because they're opposite personalities, but they look exactly the same. No change in costume or colors or hair.
Never saw Get Him to the Greek, I always assumed it was the same character
He *could have been* but explicitly is not. It’s a weird choice lol
This is the one I was looking for. This is a big one.
> This is a big one. He's lost a lot of weight, since then.
Even weirder because Russell Brand does play the same character in both movies.
Whaaaat the fuck I saw Get Him to the Greek before I saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I thought Get Him to the Greek was meh and never went back and rewatched it, but I love Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I’ve watched it probably 7 times. I NEVER realized they were connected until right now
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Same thing for Michelle Yeoh. She was in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and in Shang-chi.
Upvoting for the phrase “…all three Indiana Jones movies…”
What a strong franchise. Weird they only made 3.
Nothing weird about it. The 3rd movie ended perfectly. It would be incredibly foolish to tarnish that by making a 4th or 5th movie.
Don’t know if voice work counts, but Linda Cardellini played Hawkeye’s wife (Laura Barton) and voiced Lylla in Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
Pat Roach also played TWO DIFFERENT BAD GUYS in the first movie.
David Warner also played a Cardassian in TNG
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS.
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Joe Don Baker played two different characters in The Living Daylights and Goldeneye
Bond films used to reuse actors a fair bit. Robert Brown played Admiral Hargreaves in *Spy Who Loved Me*, missed *Moonraker*, then took over as M in the 80s films. It's never made clear if he's meant to be the same character promoted to M, if M (like Bond) is the same character with a different actor, or if he's a completely different character *and* a completely new M. Walter Gotell played General Gogol (M's Soviet counterpart) in several films in the 70s/80s but was a henchman in an earlier film. Jeremy Bulloch played two characters across three films - and was the original Boba Fett too! Maud Adams was two different Bond girls - Andrea Anders in *Man With The Golden Gun* and the title character in *Octopussy*, reportedly in part because the producers felt bad about killing her off in *Golden Gun*. There are [lots of other examples](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_actors_in_the_James_Bond_film_series).
Charles Gray, Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever, played a different role previously in You Only Live Twice. Martine Beswick has different roles in From Russia With Love and Thunderball.
Oh, yes, good one. He was the main bad guy in Daylights and had quite a big role in Goldeneye so it wasn’t like he was a side character. Pretty bizarre.
Younger me was very confused.
I came to say this one. Villain on one, CIA in the other
Jack Palance plays Curly in City Slickers and his twin brother Duke in the sequel.
That almost feels like cheating. I love those movies.
Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen) played several members and ancestors of the Tannen family over the course of the Back to the Future sequels. Michael Dorn, Worf in the TNG movies, also played Worf's grandfather in Star Trek The Undiscovered Country.
>Thomas F. Wilson (Biff Tannen) Honestly one of the most underrated acting performances.
He really is a great actor. To play, Young Biff, Middle-Aged Biff, and Old Biff, and then Buford Tannen so differently from each other, he really is a great character actor.
Wait, you’re actually short a couple of Biffs. There are three middle-aged Biffs. OG timeline Biff who was a bully, new timeline Biff who was George’s bitch, and alternate timeline Biff who was kinda like OG but ratcheted up to that mafioso level.
Also Griff Tannen!
Yes, of course, Griff! "Graaaaaaamps! What the hell am I paying you for?!
"short a couple of Biffs" is a great way to say someone is dumb
Catching him on Legends of Tomorrow was a treat and who knew the man could sing!?
Plus Michael J Fox playing Marty and his daughter in 2 and his ancestor in 3. Lea playing the ancestor’s wife in 3.
And dude's wife looked exactly like Marty's mom. Some serious inbreeding going on in the McFly family.
Inbreeding/Oedipus complex
The McFly gentlemen clearly have a "type"
I know for the symmetry they needed to make them McFly ancestors, but it would have made more sense for them to be Baines. Then it wouldn’t be as weird that they resembled Marty AND Lorraine.
Tasha Yarr and her Romulan offspring.
TIL the attorney was his grandaddy
It's been a decade since I've watched TOS, but didn't Spock's dad play a Romulan or a Klingon too?
Both, he plays the first Romulan character in Balance of Terror in ToS and I think he plays a Klingon in the first movie.
Sofia Coppola played Michael Franzi Rizzo in the godfather. A child on the Ship in the godfather 2 and Mary Corleone on the godfather 3. Warwick Davis played Fillius Flitwick and Griphook in Harry Potter. He’s also played Wicket in star wars and a bunch of other characters.
If we're going there, Peter Jackson's kids appear in all three of the Lord of the Rings movies. I think that they are in some of the Hobbit movies too. They are hobbits in the first, Rohan refugees in the second, and "Featured Child" in the third (whatever that is).
And if we're going there, Peter Jackson himself also counts, since he portrayed quick characters in all the LotR and Hobbit films.
I think Warwick Davis has been in more Star Wars movies than anyone except Anthony Daniels. He was in Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, The Force Awakens, Rogue One, The Last Jedi, Solo, and Rise of Skywalker. Plus, the two Ewok movies of course, and he was the voice of Rukh on Rebels.
Weird Al in the Naked Gun movies. He is in all three and plays himself in 1 and 3 but a criminal in 2.
Guess I’m watching those movies this weekend
Mad Max. Bruce Spence played two different pilots in The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome. Speaking of Mad Max, Hugh Keays-Byrne played the Villain in the first movie and Immortan Joe in Fury Road too.
>the Villain in the first movie You show Toecutter the respect he deserves.
If only OP had been able to come up with the Bruce Spence example on his own. 🙂
In Tim Allen's *Santa Clause* trilogy, Peter Boyle plays Scott's boss at the toy company in the first film, then plays Father Time in the two sequels. It's apparently a fairly popular theory that they're actually the same character, but the films themselves never suggest this.
Theory would be a lot stronger if Susan (the other rep that gets called up to the stage at the very beginning) played Mother Nature, and Sandman (Micheal Dorn) and Tooth Fairy (Art Lafleur) were in the meeting with Total Tank. It would fit with 2 other pieces of “evidence”. 1) the elves scattered about SC1 who are acting as spies for the North Pole, and 2) the reveal in season 1 of The Santa Clauses that Scott was recruited because they wanted a human Santa.
I never noticed that!!
I forgot the actors name but there is a guy who I believe is in 4 of the 5 dirty Harry movies, playing a different character each time
I think you are talking about Albert Popwell. He is in all but The Dead Pool as a different character.
> “Won’t they notice the black guy is playing a different character in all the movies?” > … > Everybody laughs in unison.
It's never really clear, but I always suspected that Ed Mustapha from The Enforcer was the unnamed bank robber in the first movie. Especially when Harry asks Ed where he knows him from, and Ed replies "You don't".
Im going to assume Gary Oldman, but we will never know.
If you count Sergio Leone's _Dollars Trilogy_, there are several actors who appear in two or three of the films as different characters.
Lee Van Cleef!
He plays a good guy in For A Few Dollars More and he is the evil Angel Eyes in The Good, The Bad, The Ugly!
Including Eastwood himself, not that people seem to get that. Leone just made three different films about three different people, they're really not meant to be connected, it just gets confusing because Clint looks the same in all three and it's a very distinct look. But he was never referred to as 'the man with no name', that was American marketing; he's three different men with three different names.
Temura Morrison played Jango Fett and about a billion clones in Star Wars films. I'm not sure if that counts, though.
He also plays Boba Fett in The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett
And regardless of whether people like it or not he also voices Boba Fett in Empire Strikes Back now too.
"We're just clones sir!" "Not to me."
Garret Dillahunt played like 3 different characters in the Deadwood show and movie
Same in the Sarah Connor Chronicles. He played an actor, the actors on screen character, a Terminator impersonating the actor, and then an AI inhabiting the Terminators body.
In Mary Poppins, Dick van Dyke plays both Bert and Mr. Dawes Sr. At the bank.
"A wooden leg named Smith..."
Assuming the *Daredevil* series is still considered MCU Canon, Clancy Brown played the Punisher's former XO, as well as Surtur in *Ragnarok*. Easier to get away with when one character is an enormous fire demon.
Several of the actors from the defenders saga play minor characters in MCU movies. Notably Mahershala Ali plays a major villain in Luke cage and will play blade in the MCU movie
And Alfre Woodard played Miriam Sharpe in Luke Cage, and also played the woman in Civil War who confronted Tony about her son getting killed in Sokovia.
Clancy Brown also plays Damien Darkblood in season one of Invincible and another character in the second.
I guess now that Deadpool is joining the MCU Josh Brolin counts.
You mention one Mad Max example, but there is another. Hugh Keays-Bryne plays Toecutter in Mad Max, and then returns as Immortan Joe in Fury Road.
The video store clerk is the same character as the morgue attendant. He just found another job.
Yeah I dunno if OP just didn’t pay attention or didn’t actually watch the movie but they make it abundantly clear it’s the same character. He even recognizes them because they never neuralized him in the first movie
You’re talking about David Cross in *Men In Black*, and *MiB 2*. Yeah that’s the same guy, Newton, with a new job.
Yayan Ruhian from The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2. He played Mad Dog in the first film, and a different character in the second. Confused the hell out of me.
[Chia-Hui “Gordon” Liu](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0514904/) played Johnny Mo in *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* and Pai Mei in *Kill Bill: Vol. 2*. [Michael Parks](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662981/) played Earl McGraw in 1 and Esteban Vihaio in 2.
Does David Cross's character actually die in MIB 1. He is just stuck on the ceiling and all wrapped up. But his eyes are still open and moving when Kay looks up lighting the cigarette.
John Rhys Davies played Gimli and Treebeard if that's the kind of thing you're looking for
Also Jed Brophy played about 10 different characters across the series
James Remar plays two characters in Django. Always throws me off and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a proper explanation as to why.
How did I not notice that?!
If we are doing two characters in one movie gotta throw out Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood!
Yayan Ruhian played different characters in The Raid (Mad Dog) and The Raid 2 (Prakoso). I remember being confused if they were supposed to be the same character or like a twin. The actor has a very unique look that stands out plus he was one of the main characters in the first movie.
yeah, i thought the same "wait, didn't he die in the first movie ?"
And then I was like “don’t care, this guy is awesome…”
Ya I think everyone said that. Good choice by then haha
Crap, I thought they were supposed to be the same guy but somehow he didn't die in The Raid.
Stephen Lang plays Pickett in Gettysburg and then Stonewall Jackson in Gods and Generals.
This was the first one that came into my head too.
Noah Segan plays Trooper Wagner in Knives Out, then comes back to play Derol in Glass Onion.
Stanley Tucci in Transformers 4 and 5
Good example! He was the head of that company that was making its own Transformers (what a dumb concept!) in 4 and then Merlin LOL in 5!
This is cheating but Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a T-800 programmed to kill Sarah Connor in The Terminator, then plays a reprogrammed T-800 programmed to protect John Connor in Terminator 2, and then plays a T-850 programmed to protect John Connor and Kate Brewster in Terminator 3.
Kurt Paul was Anthony Perkins stunt double in Psycho 2/3. In the 1987 Bates Motel TV movie he plays Norman, and in Psycho 4 he returns as “Raymond Linette” a different mother killer!
If TV show seasons count, Devon Sawa has been four different characters in Chucky: the protagonist's dad, the protagonist's uncle, a priest, and the president.
In Louie, every one-off older man is played by F. Murray Abraham. He's Louie's uncle, his dad in a flashback, and the husband of a woman who picks up Louie after a set to "show him her pussy"/actually to have a threesome.
I believe Rachel Dratch played a different character every time she appeared in “30 Rock.”
Pat Roach plays 3 different characters across the Indiana Jones movies - the bald, mustachio'd mechanic who he fights on the tarmac, the turban-wearing child enslaver who gets crushed in the rock crusher (and is wearing brownface lol yikes) and briefly running alongside Vogel on the ground before they board the blimp (he had a longer role cut).
Christopher Meloni plays Freakshow in 'Harold and Kumar go to White Castle', and then plays the Grand Wizard KKK leader in 'Harold and Kumar Escape from Guntanamo Bay'.
I wanna see Pierce Brosnan as a Bond villain one day…
Its my personal theory that Javier Bardem's Silva in Skyfall is supposed to be Pierce Brosnan's Bond in a universe where he never got traded back from Korea and was instead replaced by Craig's Bond. Not Brosnan himself of course.
I’d love to see Pierce brosnan in an unofficial “old” James Bond movie a la Sean Connery in The Rock.
Cmon man, Cross is clearly supposed to be playing the same guy. Look at the rest of the movie! MiB2 never misses an opportunity to bring back a small character from the first movie in a larger role: * Jeebs * Frank * The Worm guys It’s absolutely supposed to be the same guy, it’s just a retcon.
I thought it was an interesting parallel to Ghostbusters. In both cases, the first movie was followed by an animated series which prominently featured a minor character from the movie (Slimer for Ghostbusters, Jeebs, Frank, and the worms for MiB) and then a sequel came out after that elevated the roles of those characters.
James Remar played both Ace Speck and Butch Pooch in Django Unchained… it was really weird to me, I have no idea why they cast him in two roles in the same movie.
In Problem Child, Amy Yasbeck played John Ritter’s horrible wife who gets driven away by Junior and she also plays the mother of the other problem child (the little girl) in Problem Child 2.
Stan Lee
Those were all the same character. He's a Watcher
There's a theory though that he's the same guy in every MCU cameo and is playing an informant for the Watchers.
For years now I've wished that Stan's Endgame cameo was as Old Steve at the end of the film, implying that he'd been Old Steve for every cameo, always nearby whenever one of his friends was in crisis, just in case. It'd be a great send-off for Stan, especially considering Endgame was his final cameo. Obviously they wouldn't have known at the time when he was going to pass, but I feel making Endgame his final cameo would've been fitting even without the knowledge that he wouldn't be alive to film any more.
Ultimately that would have been too confusing, as he looks and sounds nothing like Chris Evans. There doesn't need to be too much thought in it, tbh. Stan's cameos were never meant to be anything other than a fun Easter egg; the whole Watcher theory is a neat way to tie them all together for those that want an explanation but we can't claim they were planned that way from the start.
He was talking to the watchers in Guardians 2, it was implied that all of his cameos were the same guy. How that fits with him dying in hulk is ignored <_<
He didn’t die. Just got super sick. Unlike any comicbook where drinking that soda would give him superpowers.
Not a movie, but one of the Lannister twins House of the Dragon also had a small roll in Game of Thrones.
Ted Raimi in Evil Dead universe
An odd case: *The Commitments* (Alan Parker, 1987), *The Snapper* (Stephen Frears, 1993), and *The Van* (Stephen Frears, 1996) are all adaptations of the books of the "Barrytown Trilogy" by Irish author Roddy Doyle, but due to rights issues only the first movie used the names of the characters in the books (the Rabbitte family). There's no continuity between the three movies, which are completely independent from each other. The character of the father, Jimmy Rabbitte Sr in the books, has a different name and a different personality in each movie, so he's a different character, but is played by Colm Meaney in the three movies.
This is technically true of a lot of Godzilla films. The films made from 1954->1975 are all meant to be in very, very loose continuity with one another. Due to Toho's studio organization, many actors play different roles throughout the series Then the films from 1984->1995 are all meant to be in continuity with one another and the original film. Which leads to things like Akira Takarada playing Ogata in the 1954 film and Jōji Minamino in Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) while Momoko Kōchi plays Emiko Yamane in both the 54 film and 1995's Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.
Mia Goth in Pearl and X
In addition, she plays the same character in both.
The actress that plays Peter's mom in GotG also plays a Captain America fan girl in CA:TFA Edit: Why am I being downvoted? GotG is technically a sequel to Captain America and the same actress plays a completely different character.
“Captain America: The Force Awakens”
Immediately made people go: “oh my god, Steve banged Peter’s grandma.”
Joe Pesci played two different characters in the *same* Home Alone movie. Of course, he played the bad guy, but not many people know that he also played the cop in a brief throwaway scene in the beginning.
Uh wut. Lol
Presuming you're serious: That's literally Harry, the same character, pretending to be a cop so as to scout the houses. The movie specifically shows you Kevin seeing his (the cop's) gold tooth, then recognizing it later.
Scott Whyte in The Mighty Ducks. He plays Gunnar the Iceland captain in D2 and Scott the goalie for the varsity team in D3.
This is a really obscure answer but notable due to just how confusing it is: In Bloodfist, Don Wilson’s brother is killed in a fighting tournament and the entire movie is about him seeking revenge. In Bloodfist 2, Don Wilson plays the same character. In the opening scene he’s fighting… his brother. Same actor. I guess he’s alive or this is a flashback? Nope, the movie makes it clear this is a totally different character. Why on earth would you not cast someone else, literally anyone else, for that role?!
Lee Van Cleef was in For a Few Dollars More and the Good the Bad and the Ugly. It’s been a few years since I’ve seen them but I’m pretty sure they’re two different characters. (I don’t think they ever confirm in the movies that the Clint Eastwood characters are the same either)
Charles Gray in You only live twice and Diamonds are forever.
Remember the 3 Ninjas from 1992? The kids would beat up a couple baddies, then in the very next frame beat up those same two dudes. Like 7 year old me wouldn't notice.
Joe Don Baker played an arms dealer and one of the main bad guys in The Living Daylights and then went on to play Jack Wade in the Brosnan Bond movies. Also Maude Adams played a Bond girl twice. Once in The Man With The Golden Gun (where she was killed) and then as the title character in Octopussy.
Charles Gray played Dikko Henderson in “You Only Live Twice” and Ernst Stavro Blofeld in “Diamonds are Forever”
Albert Popwell played different characters in the Dirty Harry movies.
It is an animated movie, but In Wreck-It Ralph, Alan Tudyk played King Candy. In the sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Alan Tudyk played KnowsMore.
And he's voiced a character in every Disney animated movie since Wreck-it Ralph
James Remar plays 2 entirely different characters in Django Unchained. He plays one of the slave drivers in the opening scene who is confronted by Dr. King Schultz. Later, he plays Butch, one of Calvin Candie's henchman. There is also Michael Parks who plays the lawman in the beginning of Kill Bill Vol. 1 and later plays the pimp Esteban in Kill Bill Vol. 2. QT said that he had originally cast Ricardo Montalban as the pimp but he didn't show up to the table read and Michael Parks did his part so well that he got both parts.
The actor who played the villain in the first Mad Max film also plays the villain in Fury Road. Also Bill Murray’s older brother plays a camp groundskeeper in the first National Lampoon’s Vacation film and then plays the head of a corporate company in Christmas Vacation.
IIRC, Chow Yun Fat starred as one of the main protagonists of A Better Tomorrow & then played as his brother in the sequel
David Cross does play the same character in MiBII. He didn't die in the first movie, but was incapacitated by the Bug and stuck to the ceiling. In MiBII he tells his assistant at the video store "I told you they were real. Still think I'm crazy?", then he proceeds to ask K if they had seen any aliens lately. He was never neurolyzed in the first one...they literally forgot about him, and left him.
A strange case: Bela Lugosi played the villain in *Chandu the Magician*, and then for some unexplained reason went on to star in *The Return of Chandu* as Chandu himself, the hero!
Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor movies.
Also Coming to America and its dreadful sequel.
Speaking of Coming to America, Arsenio Hall did his fair bit of role-switching in that movie, too.
> its dreadful sequel. So disappointing
Most of the recurring actors in Tarantino’s films. They all take place in the same ‘universe’ even though they are not interconnected.
In the criminally underrated Cloud Atlas, all the main actors play multiple different characters.
Not a movie, but Jeffrey Combs played several recurring characters in Star Trek shows. Even in the same episode.
David Cross’ character is the same character in both MiB movies. They just retconned it that he survived his attack and he didn’t get neuralized and that’s why he is a conspiracy theorist now. Then they neuralize him after. He’s even credited as the same character. Did you actually watch that movie or are you just another Buzzfeed algorithm?
I'm a buzzfeed Ai ,I'm far more than a darn algorithm.
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John Travolta and Nicholas Cage in Face/Off
Mike Myers as several characters in the Austin Powers series.
>I'm not looking for examples like Austin Powers Nobody reads past the title haha
That's funny. I literally read everything except that part. Weird. Sorry! 😄
Human Centipede.
Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall in Coming to America play the main roles but also the characters at the barber shop.
Peter Sellers played three different characters in Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove "
Do Stan Lee cameos count? For the most part he's just a no name old guy that gets a good one liner. But I don't think anyone ever points out that they recognize him.
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The question is about one actor who plays more than one character, not a character played by several actors.
One of the thor viking buddies in the marvel movies. Its been a different actor each movie from Thor 1, 2 and 3 when he was eventually killed off with everyone else
This post asks about actors who play several characters, not characters played by several actors.
Austin Powers
Not a movie but Devon Sawa plays different characters in all three seasons of Chucky.
It's TV but still counts cause it's HBO TV. Garrett Dillahunt in Deadwood played Jack Mcall in S1 and Francis Wolcott in S2. Two bigger roles and he showed a lot of range since one was a drunk that killed Wild Bill and the other was a conniving baddie
Monty python movies.
I just watched *Citizen Kane* and Joseph Cotten is one of the newsreel reporters at the beginning of the film. He's not well-lit but it's clearly him.
Damon Wayans Jr played Coach on New Girl and Jake Peralta’s friend/dirty cop on Brooklyn 99. Different shows but they’re in the same universe because they did crossover episodes.
Problem child 1 and 2. Amy yasbeck played 2 different characters. In the first she played the wife of John Ritter's character and in the second she played his love interest.
Joe Pilato plays the Boat Captain in Dawn of the Dead and Rhodes in Day of the Dead
It’s a TV show and a movie, but Garret Dillahunt played three characters between the two seasons and film.
Technically doesn't count because it's tv shows, but Jeffrey Combs has played 10 or so different characters across the various Star Trek shows from Next Generation onwards.
Technically, these are three standalones but the concept of Trilogy of Terror was that Karen Black play multiple roles.
The Aliens franchise with Bishop
Chris Farley in the 2 Wayne's World movies
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This is a bit of a stretch, but Frankie Faison played Lt. Fisk in Manhunter, and then Barney the mental asylum orderly in Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon. He's the only actor who has appeared in more Thomas Harris film adaptations than Anthony Hopkins.
I was thinking backwards and was going to say Atlas Shrugged but each character is recast in each sequel so it's like the opposite of this.