Actors' Hat Tricks
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David Anders is from Oregon, i believe. but i was fooled on Alias and only found out thanks to Heroes Unmasked.
IF and please note it is a BIG 'IF", "Strange Creatures" and "A Fish Called Wanda" are sequel of any form...then they are part of the same Franchise and NOT to be considered as "three roles."
Also,as someone stated up thread, I was sort of looking for Iconic, more than guest star type roles...sort of along the lines of three, fairly successful TV shows or movie franchises in which you didn't just get seen in all but the first one as a face in a picture with candles burning in front of it in honored memmory. The roles don't all have to be the leads, but you have to be one of the people folks think of as a big part of the series/movies.
My mistaken David Anders for example...he wasn't the lead in either Alias or Heroes, but I'd count those two as 2/3 to a hat trick.
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Also,as someone stated up thread, I was sort of looking for Iconic, more than guest star type roles...sort of along the lines of three, fairly successful TV shows or movie franchises in which you didn't just get seen in all but the first one as a face in a picture with candles burning in front of it in honored memmory. The roles don't all have to be the leads, but you have to be one of the people folks think of as a big part of the series/movies.
My mistaken David Anders for example...he wasn't the lead in either Alias or Heroes, but I'd count those two as 2/3 to a hat trick.
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Here's one that I think meets the OP's criteria: Jane Curtin. Her big, continuing roles?
First, the one and only Not Ready for Prime Time Players,
the original cast for Saturday Night Live. No one has done Weekly Update
as well.
Second, an Emmy-winning turn with Susan Saint James in Kate & Allie.
Third, Professor Albright in Third Rock From the Sun.
First, the one and only Not Ready for Prime Time Players,
the original cast for Saturday Night Live. No one has done Weekly Update
as well.
Second, an Emmy-winning turn with Susan Saint James in Kate & Allie.
Third, Professor Albright in Third Rock From the Sun.
^Nope, that makes one role for the count.
And good one with Jane Curtin...I loved Kate and Allie.
And good one with Jane Curtin...I loved Kate and Allie.
I'd say the sequel has to be successful to qualify, and by that I mean it has to be a hit, quality being far more subjective.
^ Got to respectfully disagree. To have an Iconic hat trick it has to be three CHARACTERS that are memorable.
Sean Connery would get it for James Bond alone. He has Bond and, shoot...I'll give you Highlander. But all the Bond films count as one role. Same as 8 seasons on TV count as one role.the
Sean Connery would get it for James Bond alone. He has Bond and, shoot...I'll give you Highlander. But all the Bond films count as one role. Same as 8 seasons on TV count as one role.the
Where was I saying otherwise?
Yeah, I know. I wasn't saying otherwise. I was saying that one successful movie followed by an unsuccessful sequel shouldn't qualify as an iconic franchise role. You need at least one successful sequel for that character to qualify. So Highlander shouldn't qualify as an iconic franchise role for Connery, but Bond of course does. Just as Sister Act (which had an unsuccessful sequel) shouldn't qualify as an iconic franchise role for Whoopi Goldberg.
Aragon the comment was meant for Out Of My Vulcan Mind.
You are correct, even if the sequel is not up to the original, if the original is so superior that the character is iconic from the get go, then it is counted as 1 icon toward a hat trick. Same would go if a film was okay, but the sequel just put the character on the map.
You are correct, even if the sequel is not up to the original, if the original is so superior that the character is iconic from the get go, then it is counted as 1 icon toward a hat trick. Same would go if a film was okay, but the sequel just put the character on the map.
Actually, I was saying the opposite: that to count as one towards the hat trick there needs to be more than one successful film. But it's your thread, so you set the rules.
Usually if an actor is doing sequels to that many of his/her characters, it's because the career is dead and there's an attempt to jumpstart it with familiarity, or because the $$$$ to come back is just too good.
Christian Bale doing three Batman movies is different than if he ends up doing three Terminator movies, because the latter is obviously for the $$$. I wonder if he still wants to be Bond. That would be three franchises there.
Christian Bale doing three Batman movies is different than if he ends up doing three Terminator movies, because the latter is obviously for the $$$. I wonder if he still wants to be Bond. That would be three franchises there.
Oh, okay. Then add his character from the Alpo dog food commercial franchise.
Green was in another series that ran about 1/2 a season in the early 70's called Griff. That's probably about as long as BG.
All I remember is that my mom liked it.
His role in I Claudius.
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