People that played multiple characters on the same show.

[lleeder]

Nicholas Lea is the actor that played Alex Krycek on the Xfiles. In an early episode of the series he had a minor role as some guy that gets killed by an alien then 2 years later they brought him back.

[realmenhatelife]

On Deadwood the same guy played Francis Walcott and Jack McCall, two significant characters in the show.

John Lovitz guested on News Radio as a different character before joining the show full time in the last season.

[opie's twisted balls]

Harry Morgan played Maj. Gen. Bartford Hamilton Steele for one episode in M*A*S*H and then Sherman T Potter for another 179 episodes

[JimBeam]

On Deadwood the same guy played Francis Walcott and Jack McCall, two significant characters in the show.

I watched the show but I can't remember who these characters were.

Was one of them the guy who like to rape/hurt women ?

Played the deputy in " No Country For Old Men ".

[pennington]

Jerry Orbach was in an episode of Law & Order as a lawyer before he joined the cast as a detective. S. Epatha Merkerson was also in an episode of L&O playing a mother (or something similar) before she joined the cast as a lieutenant.

[pennington]

Ted McGinley was in the "It's a Wonderful Life" parody playing a character named Jablonsky before he joined the cast as Jefferson D'Arcy.

[JimBeam]

Jerry Orbach was in an episode of Law & Order as a lawyer before he joined the cast as a detective. S. Epatha Merkerson was also in an episode of L&O playing a mother (or something similar) before she joined the cast as a lieutenant.

Interesting thing about the episode where Merkerson played a mom whose son was killed is that the bad guy was the guy that eventually played Lieutenant Fancy on NYPD Blue.

I wish they'd show the original L&Os.

They've started to go back a little further on TNT because I've seen a few episodes recently w/ Chris Noth and Jerry Orbach.

[razorboy]

It's amazing how Ron voices all of the characters and callers on Ron and Fez.

[disneyspy]

It's amazing how Ron voices all of the characters and callers on Ron and Fez.

is your old board name doo doo brown?

[robot artist]

Mark Lenard played two different characters on the original Star Trek TV series. He was first cast in a 1966 episode as a Romulan commander, and then returned in 1967 to play Sarek, Spock's father.

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[KnoxHarrington]

Kind of a twist on this is that The Wire featured a Baltimore homicide detective named Jay Landsman from the beginning, and later introduced a character named Lt. Dennis Mello, played by...a former Baltimore homicide detective named Jay Landsman.

[disneyspy]

eddie murphy was this fat guy AND this skinny guy in this one movie,it was pretty funny

[Chigworthy]

I watched the show but I can't remember who these characters were.

Was one of them the guy who like to rape/hurt women ?

Played the deputy in " No Country For Old Men ".

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I've tried telling this to several people who watched and loved the show, but no one seemed to notice this, which is baffling. And infuriating, because there are several people out there who think I'm full of shit. I hath been vindicated.

[JimBeam]

Yeah that's the guy I figured but I don't remember him as the 1st character.

Was he the guy that shot Wild Bill ?

[Chigworthy]

Yeah that's the guy I figured but I don't remember him as the 1st character.

Was he the guy that shot Wild Bill ?

Yep, good ol' cunt mouth.

[pennington]

On Hill Street Blues, Dennis Franz was Detective Sal Benedetto, got killed off, and came back later as another detective, Norman Buntz.

[Devo37]

Jeffrey Tambor played 4 different characters on Three's Company (Dr. Phillip Greene, Dr. Tom Miller, Winston Cromwell III, and Jeffrey Brookes), then co-starred in The Ropers.

[razorboy]

Jeffrey Tambor played 4 different characters on Three's Company (Dr. Phillip Greene, Dr. Tom Miller, Winston Cromwell III, and Jeffrey Brookes), then co-starred in The Ropers.



Fez?

[PapaBear]

I wish they'd show the original L&Os.

They've started to go back a little further on TNT because I've seen a few episodes recently w/ Chris Noth and Jerry Orbach.
They had a lot of the first two season shows during one of the holiday marathons last month. They even had one with Lewis Black, and he looked.... YOUNG!

[Ritalin]

Jeffrey Tambor played 4 different characters on Three's Company (Dr. Phillip Greene, Dr. Tom Miller, Winston Cromwell III, and Jeffrey Brookes), then co-starred in The Ropers.



and then played both the jailed father and his own hippie brother Oscar in Arrested Development.

Tambor was cashing a lot of checks.

And, of course, because they're cousins, identical cousins.

[A.J.]

Mark Lenard played two different characters on the original Star Trek TV series. He was first cast in a 1966 episode as a Romulan commander, and then returned in 1967 to play Sarek, Spock's father.

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Skip Homeier:

Melakon

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Dr. Severn

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[opie's twisted balls]

They even had one with Lewis Black, and he looked.... YOUNG!
Ya, Lou is showing his age. He was also in an episode of Homicide (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0604357/) a few years later. I LOVE his comedy and would hate to see him leave that craft but he's also a very decent dramatic actor and a shame he hasn't got more exposure.

[drusilla]

Diane Neal was on a really old episode of L&O: SVU then came back two years later as the A.D.A. (Casey)

[jennysmurf]

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Harold Gould played several different roles on The Golden Girls before he became a regular character on the show. I wonder if anyone noticed before it was in syndication? Most of these shows weren't made to be watched in an all day marathon. But I do.:unsure:

[GwEnYpOo]

Sheryl Lee played Laura Palmer, her cousin Maddy Ferguson, AND crazy Black Lodge bizarro-Laura/Maddie in Twin Peaks.


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