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Post by blk95ta on Feb 26, 2006 20:09:48 GMT -5
the comic denny fry in "whats so funny?" was also the body shop guy in "really fast cars"
come to think of it, i think the guy who gets shot at the beginning is the publisher in "HHH&M"
lots of actors seem to come back now and then
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Post by owlcroft on Feb 27, 2006 14:56:03 GMT -5
The scruffy warehouse guy in "Undercover mcCormick" becomes the deathbed confessor in the very next episode -- "Game You Learn from Your Father". And in a weird twist, Larry Gatlin plays a chacter named "Sam Jones" in "Pennies from a Dead Man's Eyes" and a few episodes later, there's a an actor named Sam Jones in (I think) "Too Rich or Too Thin".
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Post by lmlewis on Feb 27, 2006 16:37:48 GMT -5
The multiple-personality psychiatrist in 'Whatever Happened to Guts? (Marilyn Jones) is Howard-the-body-shop-guy's one true love in "Really Neat Cars". So, is that playing two characters, or three?  |
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Post by kslmoran on Feb 27, 2006 22:13:06 GMT -5
Let's not forget how many times Dennis Franz was on the show. Three times wasn't it?
And it always bugged me that the same actor played Gerald Hardcastle and the detective from "Too Rich and Too Thin" Gerald is Hardcastle's brother, he shouldn't be playing someone else, too.
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Post by owlcroft on Feb 28, 2006 3:16:19 GMT -5
But I thought they worked so well together that I could overlook it. Besides, they put a mustache on the guy as a disguise in "Rich and Thin"!
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Post by Coyote Queen on Mar 1, 2006 15:33:33 GMT -5
the comic denny fry in "whats so funny?" was also the body shop guy in "really fast cars" come to think of it, i think the guy who gets shot at the beginning is the publisher in "HHH&M" lots of actors seem to come back now and then Did you notice the cover of the book he was reading about picking up women? The author was Larry Hertzog...the producer! |
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Post by blk95ta on Mar 1, 2006 19:02:12 GMT -5
i noticed something last night, the head bad dude in "prince of Fat City (not the guy bunking with mccormick, the guy who was gonna kill him) plays a gangbanger in a lot of different nuts, he was in the pilot of 21 jumpstreet as well as another 21js episode playing Waxer...
21js is also a SJC show FWIW
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Post by Liz on Mar 5, 2006 16:50:26 GMT -5
I get a kick out of recurring actors, but anyone who might have a shot at being a recurring CHARACTER should only play one person. In other words, relatives whould only play relatives, girlfriends play only girlfriends. I know that Cannell isn't that unaware of how closely we watch!
Of course, I watch NERO WOLFE every week and they have the same actors playing different parts all the time. I've adjusted to that, so I guess I can handle it.
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Post by owlcroft on Mar 5, 2006 18:29:19 GMT -5
Just to add to the list, Flip Johnson's attorney in the pilot is also an attorney in "Conventional Warfare". Talk about being typecast!
(I hated that repertory style in "Nero Wolfe" -- loved the show, but really disliked seeing the same people week after week as different characters.)
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Post by lmlewis on Mar 6, 2006 1:15:10 GMT -5
I get a kick out of recurring actors, but anyone who might have a shot at being a recurring CHARACTER should only play one person. In other words, relatives whould only play relatives, girlfriends play only girlfriends. I know that Cannell isn't that unaware of how closely we watch! Of course, I watch NERO WOLFE every week and they have the same actors playing different parts all the time. I've adjusted to that, so I guess I can handle it. I prefer having the same actors show up as various characters in a series, to having different actors play that same character in different episodes. That really messes with my sense of what's right in the universe. I stopped watching Alias Smith and Jones after Pete Duel died ( thoughit somehow didn't bother me as much that they had three different guys playing the same sheriff during the run of that program). |
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Post by lmlewis on Mar 6, 2006 1:21:07 GMT -5
But I thought they worked so well together that I could overlook it. Besides, they put a mustache on the guy as a disguise in "Rich and Thin"! Oh, yeah the mustache, is that like when Superman puts on the glasses so Lois Lane can't tell who he is? ;-) But, yup, Kenneth Mars and BK were terrific together. I was really surprised that they hadn't co-starred in something else previously. There were a couple of times in BCYSAC where it looked like BK was on the verge of cracking up at 'Gerald's' monologues. |
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Post by lmlewis on Mar 6, 2006 1:25:13 GMT -5
Let's not forget how many times Dennis Franz was on the show. Three times wasn't it? Yay, Dennis. The quintessential 'cop' character (though he does bad guys pretty well, too). I think he would have made a great ongoing character as a cop who didn't get a long with the guys, sort of an 'anti-Frank'. |
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Post by lmlewis on Mar 6, 2006 1:40:25 GMT -5
(I hated that repertory style in "Nero Wolfe" -- loved the show, but really disliked seeing the same people week after week as different characters.) The only thing that really bothered me in Nero Wolfe was the way they yanked Saul Rubinek out of the role of Saul Panzer and made him Lou Cohen in subsequent shows. What gives there? He was great as Saul. I think he maybe didn't have enough time for it or somesuch. Of course, Rubinek's also the reader on some audio Rex Stout tapes I own, so the first time we watched this show, youngest son (who'd had a whole lot of Nero Wolfe foisted on him during car rides), on hearing 'Saul Panzer', looked up from what he was doing and said 'Hey, that's Archie!' |
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Post by owlcroft on Mar 6, 2006 15:21:02 GMT -5
I remember reading about that switch -- Rubinek is a real fan of Rex Stout's and was honored to play Saul Panzer in the pilot (referred to him as "my namesake"). There was some complication though, maybe it was time availability, so he became a periodic Lon Cohen. You do realize Hutton and Chaykin have contracted to do "In the Best Families", but A&E won't release the rights back to the producers?
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Post by Liz on Mar 6, 2006 18:30:04 GMT -5
A&E used to have my love, support and respect. Now I want to slap them silly. The very idea of complaining that NERO WOLFE was too expensive to do, yet they actually built a real ship for just a few HORATIO HORNBLOWER movies. What was the cost of that, pray tell? I don't know how Hutton allowed A&E to steal the show from him. I'd love to see "In the Best Families". Actually, I'd like to see them do every single short story and book.
Rubinek does a wonderful Lon, although I liked him as Saul. The other Saul is good, too. Really like almost everyone on the series.
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