Actors who played different characters on a TV show

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  1. Oatsdad

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    Better "Trek" example: Mark Lenard.

    Best-known as Spock's dad Sarek, he also played "Romulan Commander" during the "Balance of Terror" episode.

    Lenard reprised Sarek in the movies and also portrayed "Klingon Captain" in "ST: The Motion Picture"...
     
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  2. Oatsdad

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    They are - Lore is Data's android "brother".

    Spiner also played another related android called "B-4" as well as Dr. Noonien Soong, the creator of all the androids.

    Since the androids all intended to represent their creator, they're clearly related...
     
  3. Oatsdad

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    Or Patty Dukes, right?
     
  4. bekayne

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    He played a judge on All in the Family and later Barney Hefner on the same show. And before playing Frank Lorenzo, Vincent Gardenia also played a "swinger" and a racist neighbor.
     
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  5. bekayne

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    Victor Raider-Wexler played two different bosses of Leah Remini on King Of Queens
     
  6. TMRY

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    Garret Dillahunt played two entirely different roles in Deadwood.
    Roger Davis was a guest star in Alias Smith and Jones and then replaced Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes.
    Jeff MacKay was "Ski" on Magnum PI and came back to play another role after his character was killed in the third season.
     
  7. Monosterio

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    Yeah, what I’m looking for is the kind of thing most viewers wouldn’t notice unless they regularly watched the show in syndication, as I do with Seinfeld, Two and a Half Men and others.

    Of course, if the different characters are played by a famous actor, you may notice it right away instead of years later.
     
  8. Monosterio

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    Here’s a curious one: When Kevin James first appeared on Everybody Lives Raymond, he was a relative unknown playing Ray’s buddy Kevin Daniels in a recurring role. Then The King of Queens took off, and when James returned to Raymond he played Ray’s buddy Doug Heffernan. Yet apparently Ray never noticed he had two buddies who looked exactly the same. :D

    On an interesting side note, Kevin James was an '80s porn performer.
     
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    The actor who played Vito on the Sopranos from seasons 2-6 appeared as Gino in a season 1 episode (the scene where Christopher shoots the guy at the bakery in the foot).
     
  10. rmos

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    Jack Webb had a stock company of actors that played all kinds of different characters on his TV shows.
     
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  11. On The Golden Girls the actor Harold Gould played two boyfriends to Betty White's character, Rose Nylund.
    He played Arnie Peterson and Miles Webber.
     
  12. Walt

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    This may be a stretch: John Mahoney played a character named Sly or Sy on “Cheers.” He was later cast as Frasier’s dad in... oh... what was the name of that Cheers spinoff?

    :p
     
  13. intv7

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    Jeffrey Tambor in about a dozen episodes of Threes Company, eventually becoming the Ropers' landlord on their spinoff.

    Monte Landis in about a dozen episodes of The Monkees.
     
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  14. Oatsdad

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    IMDB just has Tambor listed for 3 "TC" characters - and apparently he played all of them after he was on "Ropers"! :wtf:
     
  15. intv7

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    Well, it felt like a dozen. :laugh:
     
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  16. neo123

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    A recent one:

    Sarah Chalke on Roseanne
     
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  17. powerq

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    Different Kevin James. He died in 1990.
     
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  18. bekayne

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    Also playing two characters in the Everybody Lives Raymond/The King of Queens universe, Chris Elliott. And the previously mentioned Victor Raider-Wexler from The King of Queens played one of Frank's buddies on Everybody Lives Raymond.
     
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  19. bekayne

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    Dick Schaal played 4 different characters on The Mary Tyler Moore show, as well as one each on Rhoda and Phyllis. So 6 different characters in the same TV universe.
     
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  20. Dillydipper

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    How did this become an Emmys thread?

    I ask because that's another place Tatiana Maslany's gotten shut out! :laugh:

    Particularly like the Orphan Black episodes where they just let several sistras hang out together.
     
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  21. Witchy Woman

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    Also, Sid Melton played Sophia’s husband Salvatore as well as a joker/fool character who entertained patrons at a medieval restaurant.

    Paul Dooley played Rose’s blind date Isaac Newton and then played a neighbor doctor named George in an episode intended to spin-off “Empty Nest.”

    There are a couple of other examples from this show.
     
  22. Monosterio

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    I know. I meant related by name. ;)
     
  23. Monosterio

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    I noticed a couple of posts going in a “universe” direction. Please refrain from doing that as I prefer the thread not get out of control. Thanks.

    (And in case anyone thinks I started it, the Kevin James example I cited earlier is just within Everybody Loves Raymond. He played both characters on that show.)
     
  24. greelywinger

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    I remember a few episodes where the regular actor was on the screen at the same time with a holodeck character also played by the same actor/actress.



    It happened often in Star Trek.

    VOY 2x21 'Deadlock' Trailer

    Darryl
     
  25. guy incognito

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    On The Jack Benny Program, Frank Nelson played a sales clerk, floorwalker, waiter, doorman, traffic cop, judge, travel agent, psychiatrist... :D
     
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