Actors who played multiple characters in a single movie?

[ohiosmith]

Frank Morgan played five different parts in The Wizard of Oz.

[pipi_k]

1. One of my favorites

Eddie Murphy in "The Nutty Professor"

He was 7 different characters

[ohiosmith]

7. That's right! Forgot about him.

[Cracklin Charlie]

27. Eddie Murphy

Just watched Coming to America the other night. I don't know how many characters he played in that movie. There must be three or four in the barbershop scenes alone. That movie just really cracks me up.

[LynneSin]

2. Well i think we can all agree the absolutely WORST example

Adam Sandler in 'Jack and Jill'

I think i"d rather watch a video of Rush Limbaugh naked painting a room than to watch that movie!

[rrneck]

11. Even doing the baseboards. nt

[ohiosmith]

12. Hahahaha!

[Javaman]

82. Thank you for that laugh out loud moment!!!!

!!!!

[HopeHoops]

3. Peter Sellers - "Dr. Strangelove".

[geardaddy]

4. This is the winning answer.

[progressoid]

20. Peter Sellers in The Mouse That Roared.

Peter Sellers in The Fiendish Plot of Dr FuManchu.

Peter Sellers in a couple others I can't think of. He was great in multiple roles.

[ohiosmith]

31. That's the thread that inspired this.

[stevenleser]

34. No equal anywhere, anytime. nt

[stevenleser]

40. Also Peter Sellers in "The Mouse that Roared". Great stuff

[Motown_Johnny]

56. and "The Prisoner of Zenda" and "Lolita"

"The Mouse that Roared" was already mentioned.

[PassingFair]

5. Eddie Murphy does a lot of this.

Badly.

[ohiosmith]

39. Hahaha!

[Graybeard]

6. Alec Guinness

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) is the grand-daddy of them all. In it Guinness plays eight members of the same family (male and female).

[beac]

52. "My memoirs? Oh, my memoirs.... MY MEMOIRS!!!"

Great movie.

[LynneSin]

8. The best Eddie Murphy movie with multiple roles for Murphy without a doubt....

Coming to America.

I loved the scenes in the Barber shope where both Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall played multiple characters. They also did multiple characters in the bar scene (Arsensio Hall as a woman flirting with Murphy and Hall was riotious) and the church fundraiser event.

"Coming to America" was such a great movie, hiliarious as hell and very fresh topic. I think it went to Murphy's head and suddenly he thought he could play multiple characters in all of his movies and people would buy it. Sometimes it worked (Like the first "Nutty Professor&quot but most of the time it's like 'Not that tired old crap again'. Multiple Murphy roles only work when the script is killer, more often than not the scripts suck

[Cracklin Charlie]

28. I love that movie!

I just watched it this weekend. My favorite character that he does is that perfectly horrible singer in the benefit concert that sings "I believe that children are our future..."

[edbermac]

9. Alec Guinness played 8 roles in Kind Hearts And Coronets

And I think Jerry Lewis played 7 in Family Jewels

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. Dick Van Dyke played Two in Mary Poppins

Bert and The Old Banker.

[Graybeard]

13. Morgan is often said to play 5 parts, but...

Didn't Frank Morgan also play the giant head of the evil Oz?

*** I....AM....OZ!!! ***

That would be six. (I've seen that movie more times than any other and love it every time.)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

14. Jerry Lewis "The Family Jewels"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Pretty much any of the Pythons.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. Mike Meyers in all the Austin Powers movies.

[NV Whino]

17. Lawrence Olivier in Sleuth

Lucy Lawless in several Xena episodes. She even played a look-alike character playing another look-alike character.

[CBGLuthier]

30. Olivier? Surely you mean Caine

and that is a subset/variation. Marlene Dietrich is in that subset. Where the character is in disguise. So is Kirk Douglas. True movie fans should be able to figure out those two movies.

[NV Whino]

41. Been awhile since I saw it

But Olivier played at least two parts.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

18. Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, & Jeffrey Wright in -

"Angels in America". It took me a good 15 minutes to recognize Meryl as a rabbi.

[Tom_Foolery]

19. Tony Randall in "7 Faces of Dr. Lao"...

[AnneD]

70. I was hoping that was mentioned.....

one of my fav movies. So insightful and Tony Randal was great.

[DFW]

72. One of my all time favorite films ever!!

And my solid vote for this thread!

[Bucky]

21. Meg Ryan in "Joe vs. the Volcano"

I know, I know... everybody's favorite! Meg Ryan, oh she's so cute, plays DeDe the flibbertigibbet and both of the perky, irreplaceable Graynomore sisters. Oh, that pixie!

[baldguy]

75. An underrated classic.

[CBGLuthier]

22. Sammy Smith in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Twimble


And

Wally Womper



He also did it on the stage. These images are from the stage version

[geardaddy]

29. That's a great movie.

And Robert Morse plays Bert Cooper on Mad Men now.

[Graybeard]

23. Deep Roy and the Oompa-Loompas

In Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) all of the Oompa-Loompas are played by a single actor, Deep Roy. His work was so time consuming (shooting the same moves over and over) that Burton raised his salary for the film to a cool $1 million bucks.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

44. The one cool thing abot that whole film --

Loved Deep Roy!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland "Start the Revolution Without Me"

[HughBeaumont]

25. Michael Keaton in Multiplicity

[BrendaBrick]

68. That would have been my choice too

Saw it just the other day. Good one!

(I like your sig line, btw)

[jakeXT]

26. John Candy & Aykroyd in Valkenvania "Nothing but Trouble"

[nytemare]

54. That was such a strange and funny movie.

I have to watch that one every so often just to get a proper weirding out.

[RiffRandell]

32. Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers.

I love that movie.

[geardaddy]

35. That is a creepy-ass movie.

I love it!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

47. That movie creeped the hell out of me.

[Graybeard]

33. Prisoner Of Zenda (all versions)

Ronald Colman (1937)

Stewart Granger (1952

Peter Sellers (1979)

And in another comedy take on Zenda,
Richard Dreyfuss in Moon Over Parador (1988)

[geardaddy]

36. How about actors who play the same character in the same movie?

I'm Not There

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Not_There#Cast

[Tom Ripley]

38. That also happens in Todd Solondz's "Palindromes"

10 different actors play the same character

[geardaddy]

42. That was a great movie.

Very disturbing in parts.

[Tom Ripley]

49. I agree with you; he is a master of the disturbing

"Happiness" is astonishing

[FloridaJudy]

59. Luis Buñuel

In "That Obscure Object of Desire" had two actresses playing the same role. They didn't look even remotely alike, and it confused the hell out of me for a while.

But then Buñuel tends to have that effect on a lot of people.

[mac56]

37. Please tell me you haven't forgotten Hayley Mills in "The Parent Trap"

Let's get together, yeah-yeah-yeah

[bluesbassman]

43. Mel Brooks in Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles.

President Skroob/Yogurt and Gov. Lepetomane/Indian Chief

[Broken_Hero]

58. Don't forget History of the World Part I, I believe he played

5 characters

Moses

Comicus

The King

The Piss Boy

And I think he was one of the Spanish Inquistion guys....

[bluesbassman]

66. How could I forget? He was the loveable Torquemada.

It's good to be the King!

Nice catch.

[sakabatou]

79. And here's the full scene

[lunatica]

83. I've been waiting for Part II ever since!

LOL! I love Mel Brooks movies

[sakabatou]

78. I was going to post him

History of the World Part 1: Moses, Comicus, Torquemada, Jacques and King Louis XVI.

[bluesbassman]

45. Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie" and Robin Williams in "Mrs. Doubtfire".

These two are a little tricky because they were not truly different characters but characters pretending to be someone else. Both great performances though.

[JonLP24]

46. Martin Lawrence - Rebound

[VOX]

48. Jack Warden as brothers Roy L. Fuchs and Luke Fuchs in "Used Cars."

Robert Zemeckis' first directorial effort. Some truly funny scenes.

[dimbear]

50. Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley and the Bride of Frankenstein......

her most memorable role.

[sarge43]

51. Things To Come (1936)

Raymond Massey: John Cabal/Oswald Cabal

Edward Chapman: Pippa Passworthy/Raymond Passworthy

Margaretta Scott: Roxana Black/Rowena Cabal

[Graybeard]

53. Alan Young in The Time Machine

Alan Young plays Filby and also Filby's son as a young soldier and years later as an old man.

[Motown_Johnny]

55. Spoiler alert, wiki has a page

don't go here if you are still playing along


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

[Art_from_Ark]

57. The Python Players

in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[mucifer]

60. Danny Kaye in "Wonder Man"

He plays two brother. "superidentical twins" But, one of them is dead and is a ghost.

[Graybeard]

62. Danny Kaye in "On The Riviera"

Kaye plays a cabaret comic who looks

exactly like a famous French personality.

[denbot]

61. Michlael Parks, Kill Bill 2 as Ranger McGraw, and the pimp Estoban

A very cool movie.

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[dogknob]

63. Piper Laurie on "Twin Peaks"

Catherine Martell:


Mr. Tojamura:

[Myrina]

65. Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks!!

Nobody mentioned JACK yet ?!?!?!

[Gurgen4]

67. Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future

The Back to the Future series has many actors playing different characters, sometimes even in the same scene.

[jakeXT]

71. I can't imagine how everything has to be done twice

And they still had time to do a Roger Rabbit gag.

[ohiosmith]

73. Those are great! Thanks!

[BrendaBrick]

69. Julie Andews in "Victor/Victoria"

Also, Nick Cage playing the part of two brothers in "Adaptation"

[rrneck]

74. Cheech Marin - Dusk Till Dawn

[fishwax]

76. Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood

Preacher Eli Sunday, but also his twin brother Paul.

[hughee99]

77. Kirk Douglas played 4 roles in "The List of Adrian Messenger".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057254/

[intaglio]

80. Followed the link to the Wiki page

and then on to link to "The Playhouse"!!!

[Alexander]

81. Surprised nobody mentioned Kevin Kline in the movie Dave