Same fictional characters (with same actors) appearing in unrelated movies
Oct 9, 2018 4:11:42 GMT
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Post by london777 on Oct 9, 2018 4:11:42 GMT
Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938) introduced two supporting comic characters, Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) and Charters (Basil Radford) who played amiable but bumbling public school types. They proved so popular that the same actors played the same characters in subsequent movies with unrelated plots (that is, from different "universes", as the current buzzword has it) and with various directors:
Night Train to Munich (1940) dir: Carol Reed
Crook's Tour (1941) dir: John Baxter (a feeble effort which showed that, successful as they were as a comic turn, they were not able to carry a whole feature film as leads)
Millions Like Us (1943) dir: Sidney Gilliat & Frank Launder (cameo appearances)
They also played the same characters in The Next of Kin (1942) but their fictional names were not mentioned in the movie or credits. I do not know if this was for copyright reasons or because the makers did not want to import their comic associations into what was a deadly serious propaganda film.
I have just watched
I See a Dark Stranger (1946) dir: Frank Launder, a very good comic/romantic spy story. A couple of similar characters appear near the end and IMDb informs us that these were intended to be Caldicott and Charters, but Wayne and Radford refused because their parts were too small. In the event, Garry March is very funny as the adulterous Capt. Goodhusband so our heroes were not all missed.
So my question is:
Are there other examples of the same fictional characters played by the same actors popping up in films with unrelated plots?
Night Train to Munich (1940) dir: Carol Reed
Crook's Tour (1941) dir: John Baxter (a feeble effort which showed that, successful as they were as a comic turn, they were not able to carry a whole feature film as leads)
Millions Like Us (1943) dir: Sidney Gilliat & Frank Launder (cameo appearances)
They also played the same characters in The Next of Kin (1942) but their fictional names were not mentioned in the movie or credits. I do not know if this was for copyright reasons or because the makers did not want to import their comic associations into what was a deadly serious propaganda film.
I have just watched
I See a Dark Stranger (1946) dir: Frank Launder, a very good comic/romantic spy story. A couple of similar characters appear near the end and IMDb informs us that these were intended to be Caldicott and Charters, but Wayne and Radford refused because their parts were too small. In the event, Garry March is very funny as the adulterous Capt. Goodhusband so our heroes were not all missed.
So my question is:
Are there other examples of the same fictional characters played by the same actors popping up in films with unrelated plots?