Actors' Hat Tricks

[Greg Cox]

As far I know, James Marsters was never on HEROES. (I think maybe someone is confusing him with that blond British actor who played Hiro's immortal nemesis. You know, the guy from ALIAS.)

And:

Christopher Lee

Count Dracula (umpteen Hammer movies)
Saruman (THE LORD OF THE RINGS)
Count Dooku (STAR WARS)

Peter Cushing

Dr. Frankenstein (several Hammer films)
Dr. Van Helsing (ditto)
Sherlock Holmes (movies and tv)

 

[Starkers]

As far I know, James Marsters was never on HEROES. (I think maybe someone is confusing him with that blond British actor who played Hiro's immortal nemesis. You know, the guy from ALIAS.)

David Anders, and although he often plays Brits I beleive he's American.

 

[Takeru]

Heather Locklear:

Sammy Jo Dean - Dynasty
Stacy Sheridan- T.J Hooker
Amanda Woodward - Melrose Place

Courtney Thorne-Smith:

Allison Parker - Melrose Place
Georgia Thomas - Ally McBeal
Cheryl - According to Jim (yeah, it sucked, but it ran for 8 seasons)

 

[Greg Cox]

As far I know, James Marsters was never on HEROES. (I think maybe someone is confusing him with that blond British actor who played Hiro's immortal nemesis. You know, the guy from ALIAS.)

David Anders, and although he often plays Brits I beleive he's American.

That's exactly who I was thinking of. Thanks!

And I stand corrected about his nationality . . . .

 

[od0_ital]

Johnny Depp
A Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one)
21 Jump Street (the tv series)
The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy

 

[Starkers]

As far I know, James Marsters was never on HEROES. (I think maybe someone is confusing him with that blond British actor who played Hiro's immortal nemesis. You know, the guy from ALIAS.)

David Anders, and although he often plays Brits I beleive he's American.

That's exactly who I was thinking of. Thanks!

And I stand corrected about his nationality . . . .

Don't worry I always used to think he was English!

Actually one more franchise and we could include him in this!

 

[Greg Cox]

Buster Crabbe

Flash Gordon
Buck Rogers
Tarzan

 

[ancientone51]

Sorry, too early in the morning after a long day...I was, indeed, thinking of David Anders.
He has had a couple of one shot roles on a couple of series...but yet to get the third iconic part.

 

[od0_ital]

Michael Gross
Steve Keaton in Family Ties
Burt Gummer in The Tremors Quadrilogy/TV Series
John Carter in ER

Bill Cosby
Alexander Scott in I Spy
The Entire Cast of Fat Albert
Cliff Huxtable in The Cosby Show/A Different World

 

[TheBrew]

Billy West:
Ren and Stimpy
Futurama
Looney Tunes

 

[sojourner]

^

To be honest, I wouldn't be able to tell the differnce between Welsh & Brit. But that's probably just me.

Lorne Green
Bonanza
Battlestar Galactica
Galactica 1980

That's just two characters, though, not three.

John Cleese
Anything Monty Python
Faulty Towers
"A Fish Called Wanda" and it's sequel "Fierce Creatures"

Fierce Creatures wasn't a sequel to A Fish Called Wanda. The same four actors were in both, but they played very different characters.

Eddie Murphy
Beverly Hills Cop & its sequels
The Nutty Professor/The Klumps
Shrek & its sequels

George Clooney
The Ocean's Trilogy
The Spy Kids Trilogy
NBC's ER

"Fierce Creatures" was made due to the success of "A Fish called Wanda". So even though the characters were new, it is still considered a sequel.

 

[Rincewiend]

Nicholas Lyndhurst

Only Fools and Horses
Goodnight Sweetheart
The Two of Us

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Liam Neeson
Darkman (not the sequels, though)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Batman Begins
The Chronicles of Narnia (voice of Aslan) Films

Tommy Lee Jones
Lonesome Dove (the original miniseries)
The Fugitive/US Marshals
Men in Black/Men in Black II
Batman Forever (if ya count that as a success)

Cate Blanchett
Elizabeth/Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Batman Forever was very successful from a commercial point of view. I would have thought, though, that appearing in just one film in a franchise isn't enough to count towards the hat trick. It really should be a continuing character in my opinion.

 

[Neroon]

I am wracking my brains, but everyone I can think of has already been named. Christopher Lee was the first to come to mind, but he's been tabbed.

 

[backstept]

Hugo Weaving
Megatron - Transformers
Elomer - LotR
Agent Smith - Matrix

that would be Elrond

 

[TGTheodore]

Fierce Creatures is not a sequel. A re-teaming of a successful cast as different characters is not a sequel. That would make almost all the Christopher Guest movies sequels to This Is Spinal Tap.

--Ted

 

[Aragorn]

I think some people have completely missed the point of the OP. It's not a franchise character if you're only in one movie of a series or a guest star for a couple episodes of a TV show.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Yeah, this does seem to be turning into "name an actor and list three roles they played".

 

[sojourner]

From IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119115/trivia

• Made by the same team as A Fish Called Wanda (1988). The two films have more than 20 cast and crew members in common, including all the major performers from the earlier film (although some of them only have bit parts in this movie).
• In A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Jamie Lee Curtis' character had the same name as the title fish. In this film, John Cleese's character Rollo has the same name as a lemur.
• In this film's final scene, Rollo mixes up the name of Jamie Lee Curtis' character, calling Willa Wanda once - a reference to the earlier film, and perhaps specifically to a scene in that film where Cleese's character mixed up Wanda's name with his wife Wendy's and called Wendy Wanda.

That's about as sequel as an unsequel can get.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

^^^
It's still not a sequel.