Jeffry Oliver Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 I am a newbie. Very much so. But I have an idea for a game/thread: List three actors who have portrayed the same character. The next person names the character, then lists three actors etc. etc. I'll go first. Robert De Niro, Gary Conway, Boris Karloff A Newbie Hopes. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Frankenstein next Basil Rathbone, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Caine 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DJBeacon Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Sherlock Holmes Next: Michael Caine, Michael Gough, Jeremy Irons 1 Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Batman's faithful butler Alfred next Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Brannagh, Mel Gibson 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DJBeacon Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Hamlet Next: Richard Mulligan, Robert Shaw, Philip Carey Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffry Oliver Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 Gen. Custer next: Frances Lederer, Louis Jourdan. Udo Keir Link to post Share on other sites
DJBeacon Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Count Dracula?? Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffry Oliver Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 2 hours ago, DJBeacon said: Count Dracula?? Yes, absolutely. 3 names, please. Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffry Oliver Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 2 hours ago, DJBeacon said: Count Dracula?? Lederer in Curse of Dracula aka Return of Dracula (1958), Keir in Andy Warhol's Dracula (1973), Jourdan in a BBC production many decades ago. Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 I'll do one if DJBeacon doesn't mind... Constance Binney, Katharine Hepburn and Maureen O'Hara (The role was also played by Katharine Cornell on the Broadway stage.) 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Nightbird311 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Sydney Fairfield in “A Bill of Divorcement” Next: Vivien Leigh, Ann-Margret, Jessica Lange (if TV movies count) 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 2 minutes ago, Nightbird311 said: Sydney Fairfield in “A Bill of Divorcement” Next: Vivien Leigh, Ann-Margret, Jessica Lange (if TV movies count) Blanche DuBois in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Next: Tyrone Power, Robert Wagner and Robert Duvall 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Nightbird311 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Jesse James Next: Kay Hammond, Ruth Gordon, Sally Field (plus Mary Tyler Moore on TV) 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Mary Todd Lincoln Next: Robert Downey Jr., Eddie Izzard and Clive Revill Link to post Share on other sites
LonesomePolecat Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Charlie Chaplin Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury, Joan Hickson Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffry Oliver Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 Miss Marple next: Herman Brix, Glenn Morris, Jock Mahoney If there were points, extra points for Herman's other name. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
DJBeacon Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Jeffry, Great choices. I didn't know Brix's real name but figured the character from Jock's name: Tarzan and Herman Brix is better known as Bruce Bennett from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" fame. Next: Mickey Rooney, Dennis Patrick , Spencer Tracy 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffry Oliver Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 11 minutes ago, DJBeacon said: Jeffry, Great choices. I didn't know Brix's real name but figured the character from Jock's name: Tarzan and Herman Brix is better known as Bruce Bennett from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" fame. Next: Mickey Rooney, Dennis Patrick , Spencer Tracy If there were extra points you get 'em DJ. Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffry Oliver Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 Edison (Dennis Patrick, good one) Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Stewart Granger Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Sherlock Holmes Next: Reginald Owen, Alastair Sim and Albert Finney Link to post Share on other sites
shutoo Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Scrooge next: Walter Pidgeon, Eddie Kane, William Powell Link to post Share on other sites
Nightbird311 Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Florenz Ziegfeld? Next: Jean Simmons, Marianne Faithfull, Kate Winslet 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffry Oliver Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 Ophelia next: Barry Nelson, David Niven, Timothy Dalton Link to post Share on other sites
DJBeacon Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Wow, I'm going to guess James Bond given David Niven and Timothy Dalton, but I don't know when Barry played James Bond in a movie?😕 Link to post Share on other sites
TopBilled Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 4 minutes ago, DJBeacon said: Wow, I'm going to guess James Bond given David Niven and Timothy Dalton, but I don't know when Barry played James Bond in a movie?😕 He was the first one to play Bond, on a live television show in the mid-50s. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_54 Do you have three for the next round? Link to post Share on other sites
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