Actors and shared roles

[Greg Charles]

Name the role shared by the pair of actors. Feel free to add more pairs too!

Jack Lemmon, Tony Randall

Marlon Brando, Mel Gibson

Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson

Yul Brynner, Chow Yun-fat

Margot Kidder, Teri Hatcher

Peter Ustinov, David Suchet

Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Montgomery

Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn

Mary Martin, Julie Andrews

[Ulf Dittmer]

A bit more recent:

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

[Bear Bibeault]

Without googling, here's what I could get:

Jack Lemmon, Tony Randall

Felix Unger

Marlon Brando, Mel Gibson

Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson

Yul Brynner, Chow Yun-fat

The King of Siam

Margot Kidder, Teri Hatcher

Lois Lane

Peter Ustinov, David Suchet

Hercule Poirot*

Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Montgomery

Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn

Mary Martin, Julie Andrews

* Ustinov as Poirot was a travesty.

[Joanne Neal]

Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson

Hamlet

[Greg Charles]

Very good! You got all but four. Five counting Ulf's, but I can't get that one either.

Hints:

Elizabeth Montgomery is really only famous for one role.

Mary Martin -- Julie Andrews -- Audrey Hepburn: you'll have to know something about Broadway shows.

Marlon Brando, Mel Gibson: sailing, sailing!

[Bear Bibeault]

Oh, of course: Samantha Stevens! I don't know how I missed that one.

[Paul Clapham]

Greg Charles wrote:Marlon Brando, Mel Gibson: sailing, sailing!

Jack Aubrey then?

[After googling: no, that was Russell Crowe I was thinking of.]

[Bert Bates]

peter sellers - steve martin
dick york - dick sargent
steve mcqueen - pierce brosnan

[Bear Bibeault]

Bert Bates wrote:peter sellers - steve martin
dick york - dick sargent

Clousseau
Darren Stevens

[Greg Charles]

steve mcqueen - pierce brosnan. Thomas Crown?

[Greg Charles]

Ah, here's one that doubles as a double clue to Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn:

Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy

[Matthew Brown]

Marlon Brando, Mel Gibson

Captain Bligh? [Edit...so close!]

Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn
Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy

Ah, they'll be a pair of Doolittles.

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

And that's a bit of a trick question, if the answer is what I think

Cate Blanchett & Miranda Richardson
Linda Hamilton & Lena Headey
Frank Langella & Anthony Hopkins

[John Jai]

Now for Indian movie fans,
Amitab, Rajini, Sharukh, Ajith : ?

[Joanne Neal]

Matthew Brown wrote:Cate Blanchett & Miranda Richardson

Is this a role that only these two actresses have played ?
I'm thinking Elisabeth I, but there must be many actresses that could have been included - Judi Dench, Glenda Jackson, etc

[Matthew Brown]

Joanne Neal wrote:I'm thinking Elisabeth I, but there must be many actresses that could have been included - Judi Dench, Glenda Jackson, etc

That's right. Thought I'd just choose two contrasting portrayals!

[Jelle Klap]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:A bit more recent:

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

Tyler Durden in Fight Club - love that movie!

Let's see, how about Edward Norton and Eric Bana?

[Joe Ess]

How about Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig (and in some universes, David Niven)

[Jelle Klap]

Or Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale?

[Matthew Brown]

Joe Ess wrote:How about Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig (and in some universes, David Niven)

Slightly less obvious would have been Bernard Lee, Robert Brown and Judi Dench.

[Mohana Rao Sv]

Pamela Anderson Lee with anyone.? Show some mercy on actresses as well

[Joe Ess]

Matthew Brown wrote:

Joe Ess wrote:How about Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig (and in some universes, David Niven)

Slightly less obvious would have been Bernard Lee, Robert Brown and Judi Dench.

Maybe I was going for obvious
I'm curious, is there any movie role that more actors have portrayed?

[W. Joe Smith]

Joe Ess wrote:

Matthew Brown wrote:

Joe Ess wrote:How about Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig (and in some universes, David Niven)

Slightly less obvious would have been Bernard Lee, Robert Brown and Judi Dench.

Maybe I was going for obvious
I'm curious, is there any movie role that more actors have portrayed?

No movie role, but I can think of a TV role:

William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Richard Hurndall, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, and Matt Smith. There were actually multiple others playing pieces of this role, but these are regarded as the actual 11.

[fred rosenberger]

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Colin Farrell
Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp
Frank Sinatra and George Clooney

[Matthew Brown]

Joe Ess wrote:I'm curious, is there any movie role that more actors have portrayed?

Well, Sherlock Holmes is supposed to be the most often portrayed character, but I don't know how many separate actors have done it. A quick glance at http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0026631/ suggests quite a few, though!

[W. Joe Smith]

fred rosenberger wrote:Arnold Schwarzenegger and Colin Farrell
Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp
Frank Sinatra and George Clooney

Douglas Quaid
Willy Wonka
Danny Ocean

[Mike Simmons]

I would guess Tarzan is pretty high on the list as well.

If you include actual historical characters, then the many appearances of Hitler in WWII movies (often briefly) could easily give him the #1 spot.

[Greg Charles]

Matthew Brown wrote:

Greg Charles wrote:
Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn
Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy

Ah, they'll be a pair of Doolittles.

That's right. Harrison and Murphy both played Dr. Doolittle in movies. Julie Andrews played Eliza Doolittle on stage in My Fair Lady, but was replaced for the movie by Audrey Hepburn, who was a bigger star at the time. In both stage and screen though, the male lead, Henry Higgins was played by whom? Rex Harrison! Weird coincidence there.

What goes around comes around though. Mary Martin played the role of Maria to great acclaim in the stage production of The Sound of Music, but was replaced for the movie by Julie Andrews.

Matthew Brown wrote:
Frank Langella & Anthony Hopkins

Richard Nixon

[Greg Charles]

Matthew Brown wrote:
Slightly less obvious would have been Bernard Lee, Robert Brown and Judi Dench.

M, at least for Lee and Dench. I don't know Robert Brown. Add Edward Fox to the list though. He played M in Never Say Never.

[dennis deems]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:A bit more recent:

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

Er, SPOILER ALERT ?

[Mike Simmons]

Also, Rosebud is a sled.

[Joe Ess]

Dennis Deems wrote:

Ulf Dittmer wrote:A bit more recent:

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

Er, SPOILER ALERT ?

Can you spoil a movie that came out 13 years ago?

[Frank Silbermann]

Mary Martin, Julie Andrews

-- Maria von Trapp???

[Greg Charles]

Frank Silbermann wrote:Mary Martin, Julie Andrews

-- Maria von Trapp???

Right! Although, I gave that away a few posts up.


After making a quick scan, I think these are the ones that remain unanswered:

Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson
Linda Hamilton, Lena Headey
Amitab, Rajini, Sharukh, Ajith (we may need a hint here)
Edward Norton, Eric Bana


(I'm not counting the ones where the answer was implied to be too obvious to merit posting: Superman, Batman, and Dr. Who.)

[Mike Simmons]

Greg Charles wrote:After making a quick scan, I think these are the ones that remain unanswered:

Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson

Hamlet, answered above.

Greg Charles wrote:Linda Hamilton, Lena Headey

Sarah Connor, The Terminator etc

Greg Charles wrote:Edward Norton, Eric Bana

This left off Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, and (now) Mark Ruffalo.

[Paul Clapham]

Greg Charles wrote:Linda Hamilton, Lena Headey

Not hard to find out if you eyeball their Wikipedia articles (which I'm assuming is not kosher in this thread), but it would be a lot easier if they ever got that Semantic Web idea off the ground.

[Henry Wong]

W. Joe Smith wrote:

fred rosenberger wrote:Arnold Schwarzenegger and Colin Farrell
Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp
Frank Sinatra and George Clooney

Douglas Quaid
Willy Wonka
Danny Ocean

They are remaking "Total Recall"? How did I not know that?

Henry

[Mike Simmons]

Paul Clapham wrote:

Greg Charles wrote:Linda Hamilton, Lena Headey

Not hard to find out if you eyeball their Wikipedia articles (which I'm assuming is not kosher in this thread), but it would be a lot easier if they ever got that Semantic Web idea off the ground.

Wait, really? Who would need to look at Wikipedia for that? What kind of geeks are you?

[Bear Bibeault]

Mike Simmons wrote:Wait, really? Who would need to look at Wikipedia for that? What kind of geeks are you?

Cyber Research Systems Series 850 is not amused.

[Greg Charles]

Mike Simmons wrote:

Greg Charles wrote:After making a quick scan, I think these are the ones that remain unanswered:

Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson

Hamlet, answered above.

Ah, right you are. I meant:
Marlon Brando, Mel Gibson (and could throw in Clark Gable)

Mike Simmons wrote:

Greg Charles wrote:Linda Hamilton, Lena Headey

Sarah Connor, The Terminator etc

Who's Lena Headey? It seems to me there was a TV series, right? Was she on that?

Mike Simmons wrote:

Greg Charles wrote:Edward Norton, Eric Bana

This left off Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, and (now) Mark Ruffalo.

Answer: Bruce Banner. Bill Bixby is sort of iffy, since he played David Banner, though really the same character. Actors that played the Hulk get really iffy. I'd consider that a different role, but I could see it being argued either way.