Actors' Hat Tricks

[Agent Richard07]

Vin Diesel
Riddick
The Fast and the Furious
xXx

 

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How many actors can we find who were uber successful as three different TV/Movie franchise characters?

Rene Auberjonois
Clayton Endicott III on Benson
Constable Odo on DS9
Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal

Alan Alda
M*A*S*H
ER
The West Wing

Scott Bakula
Quantum Leap
Murphy Brown
Enterprise

Chevy Chase
National Lampoon's Vacation Series
Fletch/Fletch Lives
Caddyshack/Caddyshack II

Jimmy Smits
LA Law
NYPD Blue
The West Wing
Dexter

 

[FreezeC77]

Greg Evigan:
BJ and the Bear
My Two Dads
Tekwar

Will Smith:
Men in Black(movies)
Bad Boys(movies)
Fresh Prince of Bel Air(TV)




If they had just developed Tango & Cash into a franchise then Stallone could be on this list for Rocky/Rambo and that

 

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Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Scooby Doo
The Grudge

James Marsters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Smallville
Torchwood

David Boreanez needs to get a new role, so he can use it to be on the list with Buffy/Angel & Bones.

 

[wamdue]

James Marsters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Smallville
Torchwood

I would not count Torchwood, he was only in two episode, if you want to count Torchwood, then lets also count his appearance in Andromeda, you might be able to get away with Without a Trace as well.

 

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They were two really good episodes, though, and fakin' a Brit accent while surrounded by Brits? Come on!

And there's always the possibility of more appearances later down the line...his character is wide open for a return.

 

[RichMerk]

Lorne Green
Bonanza
Battlestar Galactica
Galactica 1980

Bob Newhart
The Bob Newhart Show
Newhart
Bob

Ernest Borgnine
McHale's Navy
Airwolf
Spongebob Squarepants

 

[sojourner]

David Duchovny
Red Shoe Diaries
X-Files
Californication

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

ummmm, trying to think of more....

 

[wamdue]

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They were two really good episodes, though, and fakin' a Brit accent while surrounded by Brits? Come on!

And there's always the possibility of more appearances later down the line...his character is wide open for a return.

I guess there are no set rules, but I would have been more impressed if he had attempted a welsh accent, as there was at least two Welsh characters on set that day, Ianto & Gwen.

 

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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

 

[RichMerk]

Lorne Green
Bonanza
Battlestar Galactica
Galactica 1980

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

Oh, okay. Then add his character from the Alpo dog food commercial franchise.

 

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Lorne Green
Bonanza
Battlestar Galactica
Galactica 1980

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

Oh, okay. Then add his character from the Alpo dog food commercial franchise.

Why not his character from Roots?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001296/

 

[Mistral]

Patrick Dempsey?

Grey's
Enchanted
plus all the stuff he did as a kid.

 

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Michelle Forbes
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Homicide: Life on the Street/Homicide: The Movie
24

And now she's in the openin' credits for True Blood's second season, after bein' introduced in the final episodes of the first season.

 

[Mistral]

Michelle Forbes
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Homicide: Life on the Street/Homicide: The Movie
24

And now she's in the openin' credits for True Blood's second season, after bein' introduced in the final episodes of the first season.

Plus she managed to create a memorable character for nuBSG. Not a bad resume.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Frank Welker
Fred Jones - Scooby Doo
Megatron - Transformers
Nibbler - Futurama

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

Steve Blum -
Spike Spiegel -Cowboy Bebop
Akio Kuriosawa - Witch Hunter Robin
Mugen - Samurai Champloo

 

[ancientone51]

Re: James marsters...how could we forget his role on Heroes? He makes the cut.

this is good stuff, keep 'em coming.

 

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What role on Heroes?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551346/

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

Ron Perlman
Vincent in Beauty and the Beast
Hellboy in Hellboy/The Golden Army/Sword of Storms (voice)/Blood and Iron (voice)
Slade in Teen Titans (voice)

 

[Starkers]

Patrick Stewart has two big ones: Professor X and Jean-Luc Picard. He needs a third.

Karla from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Smiley's People?

Of course, some actors have several roles they can pick from. For example:

Alan Dale
Jim Robinson (Neighbours) - his most famous role
Caleb Nichol (The OC)
Bradford Meade (Ugly Betty)

to name but three.

Also:

Sir David Jason
Derek "Del Boy" Trotter (Only Fools and Horses)
DI William "Jack" Frost (A Touch of Frost)
Granville (Open All Hours)
(also to name but three - never mind Pop Larkin, Danger Mouse, etc.)

Drat I was going to go with David Jason as well, although I was going to make Danger Mouse one of his three- and you forgot Count Dukula! )

Peter Davison

Tristram Farnham
The Doctor
Campion

 

[wamdue]

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What role on Heroes?

I wondered that as well