slaytonf Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Or maybe there is one. Perhaps they seem similar, or appeared in a number of movies together. Here are some I associate: Aileen McMahon, Helen Broderick Dub Taylor, Strother Martin Slim Pickens, Chill Wills, Andy Devine Brian Aherne, Michael Wilding, Ian Hunter Christopher Plummer, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing The last three maybe because they were in so many Hammer horror movies together. Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Or maybe there is one. Perhaps they seem similar, or appeared in a number of movies together. Here are some I associate: Aileen McMahon, Helen Broderick Dub Taylor, Strother Martin Slim Pickens, Chill Wills, Andy Devine Brian Aherne, Michael Wilding, Ian Hunter Christopher Plummer, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing The last three maybe because they were in so many Hammer horror movies together. Eugene Pallette and Walter Connolly 1 Link to post Share on other sites
EugeniaH Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 George Sanders and Herbert Marshall 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Bogie56 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 At least half of today's modern young actors who have come from a television background. I can't tell one from another. No characters like E.G. Robinson, Bette Davis of Humphrey Bogart. How would they have faired in today's bland world I wonder? 2 Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Are we discussing actors whom if we see them in a movie, we expect to see another actor in the same film? If so: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet John Huston (not an actor persay, but if I see his name on the credits...) & Humphrey Bogart Errol Flynn and Alan Hale Or are we discussing actors who we confuse for one another? For some reason, I get David Niven and Peter Sellers mixed up. I have no idea why and am well aware that they look different than one another, it just happens... 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Dargo Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Herbert Marshall and Alan Mowbray. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
GoodGuysWearBlack Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Errol Flynn & Alan Hale Alan Ladd & William Bendix Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Maureen O'Hara, & Ward Bond Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon Link to post Share on other sites
Kay Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 James Mason and Gregory Peck. I don't associate them together, nor do I get them mixed up, but somehow they tend to remind me of one another. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 Eugene Pallette and Walter Connolly Good one. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 George Sanders and Herbert Marshall Yup. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 Or are we discussing actors who we confuse for one another? For some reason, I get David Niven and Peter Sellers mixed up. I have no idea why and am well aware that they look different than one another, it just happens... That's what I meant, but as you may have observed elsewhere, posters never feel constrained by the OP's intention. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 Herbert Marshall and Alan Mowbray. A pattern is developing here. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 James Mason and Gregory Peck. I don't associate them together, nor do I get them mixed up, but somehow they tend to remind me of one another. Bingo. Link to post Share on other sites
Dargo Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 A pattern is developing here. Cheerio, Ol' Boy! (...though I still say Herbert and Alan are a more logical duo here than Herbie and Georgie...THAT I just don't see) Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Eugene Pallette and Walter Connolly I get Eugene Pallette and Walter Connolly mixed up too! When I see one of them in a film, I'm wondering, "oh, is that Friar Tuck? oh wait, no it's Olivia de Havilland's grandfather in Four's a Crowd." Link to post Share on other sites
speedracer5 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Thelma Ritter and Una Merkel. When I first saw All About Eve, I thought it was Verbena from The Parent Trap, until I looked them up on imdb and realized they were two different people. Link to post Share on other sites
newclassicfilmfan1 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Gregory Peck reminds some people of James Mason? How insulting to Gregory Peck. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Gorman Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I associate KEVIN McCARTHY (1914-2010) and ROBERT WEBBER (1924-1989) with one another. They should have played brothers in a 1970s Tv movie! I can't help but associate ALEC GUINNESS with PETER SELLERS whenever I watch "A Passage To India". The first time I saw the movie when Guinness appears my first thought was: "My God, Peter Sellers has been resurrected!" Birdie Num Nums! Link to post Share on other sites
mrroberts Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I'm taking this to mean actors who can sometimes get mistaken for one another, or better put, easily could have been substituted for one another in roles. Like Lionel Atwill and George Zucco. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 I'm taking this to mean actors who can sometimes get mistaken for one another, or better put, easily could have been substituted for one another in roles. Like Lionel Atwill and George Zucco. Google supports your association. A search for George Zucco, clicking on images, yields you Lionel Atwill as an alternate suggestion. Also Henry Daniel. Link to post Share on other sites
Miss Spaulding Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I associate KEVIN McCARTHY (1914-2010) and ROBERT WEBBER (1924-1989) with one another. They should have played brothers in a 1970s Tv movie! I can't help but associate ALEC GUINNESS with PETER SELLERS whenever I watch "A Passage To India". The first time I saw the movie when Guinness appears my first thought was: "My God, Peter Sellers has been resurrected!" Birdie Num Nums! Funny, I always associated Kevin McCarthy with Arthur Kennedy. I always thought that they could have been brothers they reminded me so much of each other. Link to post Share on other sites
AndyM108 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Michael Wilding Stewart Granger Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Then there's name confusion -- Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott. Jack Warden and Jack Weston. Emily Watson and Emma Watson. Link to post Share on other sites
jakeem Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 And ever since Nicolas Cage and John Travolta appeared in "Face/Off" (1997), I've always tended to wonder how one would have fared in the other's films. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted August 18, 2014 Author Share Posted August 18, 2014 And ever since Nicolas Cage and John Travolta appeared in "Face/Off" (1997), I've always tended to wonder how one would have fared in the other's films. The horror! The horror! Link to post Share on other sites
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