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This trope is under discussion in the Trope Repair Shop. There's Acting for Two. Then there's acting for twenty. This is where one actor plays a considerable number of roles in a single work (we are not counting Sketch shows). This is primarily a theatre trope, where it requires the ability to perform pretty rapid costume changes. If the character itself does this, then they're a Master of Disguise. You Look Familiar is this trope applied to characters over the course of a TV series. You ALL Look Familiar is the video game character model equivalent. If the characters are related, it's an Uncanny Family Resemblance. Compare with Man of a Thousand Faces and Man of a Thousand Voices. Contrast with Two Voices, One Character. May or may not involve Significant Double Casting. |
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Taken to the extreme in The 39 Steps: the show has over a hundred roles; there are four actors. The lead man plays one role, the lead woman plays four, and the remaining two actors play all of the other roles between the two of them. Hilarity Ensues, as does much switching of hats, when four or five of these characters are in the same scene. It prides itself in lampshading everything about this trope. At the climax, while the hero, the love interest, and a police officer are confronting the villain, the villain is shot to ensure his silence by a gun-wielding arm that reaches in from offstage. This proves so shocking to the villain — how can there be a gunman when all the cast are already on stage? — that it takes him a while to remember to die. | |
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The Broadway version of RENT has very distinctive-looking actors that together play all of the extras. In some scenes (like "Christmas Bells") the costume changes are fast enough and thorough enough to make it look like there are three times as many of them as there actually are. | |
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The various Greater Tuna plays have most or maybe even all of the inhabitants of a very small (fictional) Texas town played by only two guys. | |
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In 1979's comic version of The Prisoner of Zenda, he plays King Rudolf V, commoner lookalike Syd Frewin, and (in the opening sequence) the just-about-to-die King Rudolf IV. It's implied that Syd and Rudolf V are half-brothers. | |
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In-universe examples are part of the general chaos of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, with Annie in particular playing five different roles. | |
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Eric Overmyer's On the Verge has four actors: three women play one character each, and one man plays everyone else. He ends up playing eight separate characters: Alphonse, Grover, the Yeti, the Gorge Troll, Mr. Coffee, Madame Nhu, Gus, and Nicky Paradise. | |
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The three cross-over Warrior reviews between Atop the Fourth Wall and The Spoony Experiment all involve shifts between various versions of Linkara and Spoony for most scene shifts in the film footage. Some of those alternate versions are played by other actors. Many aren't. | |
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Urinetown has a number of supporting roles, and most are doubled, which means quick costume changes for some cast members. | |
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The starring cast of Horrible Histories all play multiple roles, some reoccurring across five series. The same performers play multiple parts in their own series, Yonderland. | |
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Killer Bean Forever has only five voice actors for budgetary reasons, each of whom plays one or two major characters. Bryan Session only plays Vagan and Cromwell, but every minor and supporting role in the film is filled by one of the other four cast members. | |
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Ozzy Osbourne played eight different roles in the video for "So Tired". | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara also plays Mechakara, 90s Kid, Ensign Munroe, Dr. Linksano, Harvey Finevoice, Cable, Boffo the clown and the Ninja-Style Dancer. | |
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A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder has one actor playing all eight main members of the D'Ysquith family and one less important member right at the end. Doesn't sound as impressive as some of the other examples in this subheading, but considering how elaborate the costumes are and how often at least one member is on stage, it's still fairly impressive. | |
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In The Polar Express, Tom Hanks portrays the train conductor, the mysterious hobo, Santa Claus, and the protagonist's father. He also provides the motion capture for the boy hero himself (his voice dubbed by Daryl Sabara) and narrates the film as the hero's older self. The film even pads this by giving him credit for the portrayal of Scrooge, who is a puppet operated and voiced by the hobo. | |
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The biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers has Geoffrey Rush not only playing Sellers and his characters, but also suggests Sellers is directing it and playing everyone else in the film by sometimes stopping the action and revealing, say, Blake Edwards (John Lithgow) to be played by Rush-as-Sellers, and commenting to the viewer on Sellers' behavior. | |
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The cast of Animalympics consists of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer, the special's writer Michael Fremer, and that's it, the four of them playing the multitude of athletes, coaches, sportscasters, and so on in the massive ensemble. Fremer in particular plays more than half of the characters, with Radner the runner-up as she plays most of the women. | |
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Subverted in Seussical. The Cat in the Hat appears as different roles throughout the show, but he's still The Cat in the Hat. | |
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Cracked's The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction mentions the "Fregoli delusion" that several distinct people that someone meets are one person who quickly changes clothes, named after a stage actor famous for quickly changing into different costumes. | |
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Another impressive example is The Laramie Project, wherein eight actors play over seventy different roles total. | |
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In Trading Mom, Sissy Spacek plays four roles: The actual mother of the kids, and each mother the kids choose to replace her. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) parodies this in its trailer, advertising the movie as starring "Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey, and...Jim Carrey", while just showing the same character in different disguises. | |
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In certain productions of Parade that involve smaller casts will inevitably involve actors who play multiple roles. | |
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American Horror Story: Keeping in mind that all seasons take place in the same continuity, this trope is actually played straight by most recurring actors. American Horror Story: Cult features Evan Peters in the roles of Big Bad Kai Anderson and the (real and fictional) historical characters Andy Warhol, Marshall Applewhite, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Jesus Christ and Charles Manson. It helps that most of those historical characters appear in flashbacks related by Kai Anderson. |
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Puffs the Play: The cast contains a total of eleven actors. The four actors who play the roles of Wayne, Oliver, Megan, and the Narrator generally stick to those roles (with a couple of small exceptions). One actor mainly focuses on playing Cedric for the first half, and then Voldemort in the second half. The other six actors play the rest of the roles, including the other Puffs, the professors, other students (except Ron, who is played by a mop), the founders of Hogwarts, various fantastic beasts, Death Buddies, ghosts, and even a talking bathtub at one point. | |
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The Mystery of Irma Vep (not to be confused with the film Irma Vep): two actors (who are contractually obligated to be the same sex to insure that there will be crossdressing), 8 characters, 60 quick costume changes each in the course of a show that only runs 100 minutes. Anyone who has worked on this show will freely admit that the dressers for the actors are as vital to success as the actors themselves. | |
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Kind Hearts and Coronets. Alec Guinness plays eight different characters, two of whom are father and son, and one of whom is a woman. A BBC Radio remake had Harry Enfield reprising all of Guinness' roles. | |
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The Chestnut Hill Improv Group is only three people, two of whom do a lot of voices between them. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!: The console version has the characters competing to win roles in an episode of The New Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. There are eight roles to compete for, and whoever wins the most roles gets the role of the villain. It's possible for one character to win all nine roles, including the roles of both the villain, and the villain's stunt double. | |
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Thomas Sanders plays all seven characters in Sanders Sides. Justified since the series is about the different aspects of his personality. | |
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In The Star Wars Holiday Special, close to half the roles are played by Harvey Korman. | |
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Before becoming famous with The Red Green Show, Steve Smith and his wife Morag produced a Canadian sketch comedy show called Smith and Smith, which aired in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Due to the show's very low budget, among other reasons, Steve and Morag played the majority of the roles themselves. | |
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If one includes The Flash (1990) where he played the eponymous hero and his clone, then John Wesley Shipp has played a total of five characters. | |
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In Clerks, several actors play multiple small roles. Given the late hours and low pay, many of those cast simply failed to show up, so Smith would have anyone who happened to be around step in. David Klein (the cinematographer) and Walter Flanagan get hit the hardest with this, with five and four roles respectively. | |
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On The Mighty Boosh, dozens of prominent - and minor - characters are played by Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt and Rich Fulcher. Fielding (as well as playing the major character of Vince Noir) fills notable roles such as the Hitcher, the Moon, Old Gregg, Tony Harrison, Montgomery Flange, the Spirit of Jazz and Spider Dijon. Barratt (who plays Howard Moon) also plays Rudy van DiSarzio, the Crack Fox, Mr Susan, Dennis the Shaman, Bryan Ferry, Sandstorm, and Jurgen Haabermaaster. Rich Fulcher, who is best known for playing Bob Fossil, has given many other very memorable performances over the course of the series, including Lester Corncrake, Kodiak Jack, Tommy the Cheese Priest, the Ape of Death, The Betamax Bandit, Alan (the Blue King of Xooberon) and "Eleanor", among others. Dave Brown really deserves a mention too. Although his only recurring roles are Bollo the gorilla and Joey Moose, he plays a fair few minor parts - Black Frost, the break-dancing Mutant, Naan Bread, Extreme Sports Calender etc. |
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There are five actors who have played seven or more different characters over the course of various Star Treks: Vaughn Armstrong, Thomas Kopache, Jeffrey Combs, J.G. Hertzler, and Randy Oglesby. Most of them started out playing a series of one-shot characters, then were given frequent recurring characters of their own. Jeffrey Combs was even supposedly going to make the jump to actual cast member, but Enterprise was canceled a season too soon. Honorable mention to Majel Barrett for playing several major characters: Number One (original pilot), Nurse Christine Chapel (Original Series), Lwaxana Troi (Next Generation), and Federation starship computers from TNG onward, including Enterprise (one-episode cameo) and the latest movie. This makes her the only person to be involved in every incarnation of the franchise. Of course, she was Gene Rodenberry's wife. Robert Picardo has played dozens of different incarnations of the Emergency Medical Hologram. (Identical in that they have the original base program, but different in that they have had different life experiences, if only subtly.) Not to mention playing the designer of the EMH, and a few holograms that aren't EMHs, but look like the EMH. And then there's Brent Spiner, who's played three different Soong-type androids (Data, Lore, and B-4) and three different Soongs (Noonien, Arik, and Altan). The crowning achievement is in the episode "Brothers", where he plays Data, Lore, and Noonien Soong in the same scene at the same time (with the help of Chroma Key, of course). Also worth mentioning is the seventh-season Masks, where Data is possessed by a succession of alien deities from a probe taking over the Enterprise. |
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Productions of Chicago may or may not involve supporting actors playing multiple roles, depending on their resources, but there's one that is explicitly required by the script: during Roxie's big trial scene, all twelve members of the jury are to be portrayed by a single actor. | |
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In The Mouse That Roared, Sellers plays Tully, Lord Mountjoy, and Grand Duchess Gloriana of Grand Fenwick. This is explained (and Lampshaded) by the disclaimer at the beginning of the movie that the First Grand Duke was "in every possible sense, the Father of His Country" (and indeed, his memorial statue looks exactly like Peter Sellers). | |
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On 30 Rock, Rachel Dratch was originally cast as main character Jenna Maroney. The character was reconceived and recast with Jane Krakowski, but Dratch still appeared in many episodes in the first season, usually playing a different one-off character each time. | |
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The League of Gentlemen, in which, as the ads put it, "three guys don the shoes and dresses of an entire town." | |
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Most productions of Come From Away have an Ensemble Cast of 12 or so actors who switch between several roles; a necessity for a musical Based on a True Story with so many people involved. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, Burnie Burns plays Church, Lopez, Vic, and a number of smaller roles, including Omega, the Red Zealot, and most of the A.I.s in season 6. | |
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) had Frank Morgan playing five different roles: The Wizard, Professor Marvel, a gatekeeper in Emerald City, a carriage driver, and a guard in the Wizard's palace. This has led some fans to speculate that the additional characters (besides Professor Marvel) are really the Wizard in disguise. | |
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Quite common in That Guy with the Glasses. Doug Walker is, among others, the The Nostalgia Critic, Chester A Bum, Ask That Guy with the Glasses, Dominic the Bartender, Donnie DuPre, Douchey McNitpick, Raoul Puke, General Zod, Dr. Smith, and Tommy Wiseau (along with Melvin, Brother of the Joker and Emo Jones). Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara also plays Mechakara, 90s Kid, Ensign Munroe, Dr. Linksano, Harvey Finevoice, Cable, Boffo the clown and the Ninja-Style Dancer. The Spoony Experiment: Noah Antwiler/Spoony plays *inhales* Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, Squall Leonhart, Fu Manchu, Spencer D. Bum, the Ultimate Spoony, Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy, the Gate Cleaner, Hulk Spogan, Terl, "Spoonette", Spoontock! of the Klingon Empire, Chuckles the Fucking Jester, Tidus and Yuna, Snow and The Goddamn Avatar. The three cross-over Warrior reviews between Atop the Fourth Wall and The Spoony Experiment all involve shifts between various versions of Linkara and Spoony for most scene shifts in the film footage. Some of those alternate versions are played by other actors. Many aren't. Brad Jones is The Cinema Snob, Kung Tai Ted, Vic Dealio of "The Big Box" and 80's Dan. |
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Anna Deveare Smith does this for the play/film Twilight: Los Angeles. | |
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American Horror Story: Cult features Evan Peters in the roles of Big Bad Kai Anderson and the (real and fictional) historical characters Andy Warhol, Marshall Applewhite, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Jesus Christ and Charles Manson. It helps that most of those historical characters appear in flashbacks related by Kai Anderson. | |
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In The Solve-It Squad Returns! the four main characters all have different actors...and every other character is played by the same man. There are of course multiple scenes in which he has to switch between multiple characters using wigs, hats, glasses, and of course great acting skills, gets even funnier when he has to propose to, kiss, and run off into the sunset with himself. | |
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In Coming to America, Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall play several different roles, including white or female characters. Eddie Murphy is doing this a lot more nowadays. | |
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On Orphan Black, Tatiana Maslany plays over fifteen clone-sisters, including at least seven that could be considered major roles plus voicing a scorpion Imaginary Friend of one of her clone characters. Ari Millen plays seven different characters from a different, male, batch. | |
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All minor characters in Little Shop of Horrors are played by the same actor, according to the official script. | |
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Angels in America, which is also written to be performed by eight actors, specifically states in its dramatis personae that certain lead characters double for certain supporting characters, with the actresses playing Hannah and the Angel with the highest total role count. Memorably, Meryl Streep in the television adaptation. | |
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Denis Lavant plays eleven roles in Holy Motors. | |
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In the Japanese VHS/DVD dub of Forrest Gump, Katsuhisa Hoki voices over the Doctor, Alabama Governor George Wallace and President Lyndon Johnson. | |
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Mega64. The six main characters are played by three actors (two characters each), and there are a few regular recurring actors who almost always play different characters in each appearance. | |
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The Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has only nine actors in its entirety. The nine actors each have a main role, and double for 13 others. Often, the actors assume their other roles by unzipping vests, moving their hair, or merely changing their voices. | |
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Every actor in the film adaptation of Cloud Atlas plays multiple roles in order to get across the concept of reincarnation (the story spans six different periods of history). Many of the roles are in different genders and races; Halle Berry, for instance, plays a Maori slave in the 1800s, a Jewish German woman in the 1930s, a 1970's news reporter, an Indian woman in the present day, an old Korean man in the future of 2144, and a woman from a futuristic society in a post-apocalyptic storyline. | |
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With the rare exception most of the many characters on Eat Your Kimchi are played by Simon and Martina. | |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: Majority of the characters were played by series creators NicePeter and EpicLloyd. Even in episodes where they do not do the rapping, they will still do cameos as background characters. | |
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The Arrowverse loves introducing several doppelgangers via shape shifting characters, body changing devices, or/and alternate selves via The Multiverse and Time Travel. For specifics: Tom Cavanagh has played at least eleven characters from The Multiverse, including two impersonations of the Earth-1 version. If one includes The Flash (1990) where he played the eponymous hero and his clone, then John Wesley Shipp has played a total of five characters. Grant Gustin mainly plays the titular protagonist of The Flash (2014), but he has also played a Villain of the Week shapeshifter who copied him (the same one with one of Cavanagh's case above), the protagonist's Earth-2 version, and five Alternate Timeline versions which includes the Season 3 Big Bad. |
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The Foxy Bard: In one video, William Morningwood, Uncle Silas, Shmuel Pallache, and Dovid Mordachai (all played by Foxy) are all having a conversation. Dovid is the only one who actually sings in that video though. | |
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Doctor Who has had several actors who played very large numbers of minor roles, and actors who specialised in playing Rubber Suit Monsters and hence appeared as many different "characters". In terms of humanoid characters with significant dialogue, the record is held by Michael Sheard, who played six different named characters in as many stories between 1966 and 1988.note Rhos in "The Ark", Dr. Summers in "The Mind of Evil", Lawrence Scarman in "Pyramids of Mars", Lowe in "The Invisible Enemy", Mergrave in "Castrovalva", and the Headmaster in "Remembrance of the Daleks". And also appeared as Orsino in the Big Finish audio drama The Stones of Venice. The new series features Nicholas Briggs, who is known for voice acting but has also played a number of one-shot characters between Doctor Who, its spinoffs, and ambiguously canon material created during the years after the end of the old series but before the beginning of the new one. But if voice acting does count, know that this man is the voice of ALL Daleks, Cybermen, Judoon, Ice Warriors, Zygons, maybe more. Despite this, he gives each race, and individual members of each race, distinct voices and personalities. The man is nothing less than a legend. |
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In That's So Raven Raven Symone played all of Raven's relatives in the episode where she visits her family in the country. This trope gets justified when it turns out it's All Just a Dream. | |
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In the Japanese Nippon TV dub of the Twilight saga, Kenji Nojima voices over Jasper Hail, Caius and Jared. | |
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The Spoony Experiment: Noah Antwiler/Spoony plays *inhales* Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, Squall Leonhart, Fu Manchu, Spencer D. Bum, the Ultimate Spoony, Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy, the Gate Cleaner, Hulk Spogan, Terl, "Spoonette", Spoontock! of the Klingon Empire, Chuckles the Fucking Jester, Tidus and Yuna, Snow and The Goddamn Avatar. | |
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In Jasper in Deadland, several of the women in the cast portray the memories of Agnes in Jasper's flashback sequence. | |
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The Muppets' Wizard of Oz has Miss Piggy playing all four of the witches in Oz, as well as appearing as herself in the Kansas scenes. | |
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The most famous example is Dr. Strangelove, wherein he plays the title character, Gen. Ripper's British adjutant and the U.S. president. He was originally intended to play the bomber pilot as well, but he A) allegedly had a dubious time with the accent and/or B) sprained an ankle and could not work in the cramped cockpit set, so the role went to Slim Pickens. Columbia Pictures only agreed to finance the film on condition that Sellers play multiple roles. | |
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At one point, a production of The Importance of Being Earnest was staged with two actors. In the final scenes, they resorted to wearing both dresses and suits while holding umbrellas: they'd open the umbrellas to block the suits when playing women, and close them again when playing men. | |
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For the BBC TV adaptations of The Chronicles of Narnia Barbara Kellerman notably played three different characters - Jadis in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Hag in Prince Caspian and the Lady of the Green Kirtle in The Silver Chair. This has helped fuel Fanon that the two witch characters are actually the same person. Additionally several other actors doubled up and played other characters across the four adaptations. | |
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Doom Patrol (2019): Diane Guerrero plays Crazy Jane, who is one of 64 distinct personalities. All personalities that surface are played by her, plus some that are only seen in her mind. | |
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Tony Randall in 7 Faces of Dr. Lao plays Dr. Lao, various acts in his circus, and a brief moment as a spectator. | |
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp has Deborah Kerr playing the protagonist's idol Edith. And she then plays two more women he meets throughout the course of his life - to illustrate how they remind him of Edith. | |
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Dr Glaucomflecken: Will Flanary plays all the characters in the series except for the OBGYN. | |
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Dick & Dom in da Bungalow: the multi-talented Dave Chapman and Ian Kirkby played tens of characters each- all kinds of impressions (Murray Walker, Bruce Forsyth, Richard O'Brien, Eric Morecambe...) and also original creations like Harry Batt. Melvin O'Doom had slightly fewer characters, but was also an all-purpose dancer. Even the hosts also played several recurring charaters each. | |
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Wayne Alexander played six different roles on Babylon 5: Sebastian aka Jack the Ripper in "Comes the Inquisitor"; the Narn resistant G'Dan in "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place"; "the" First One Lorien in various Season Four episodes; a Drazi prisoner in "Intersections In Real Time"; a Drakh (named in Expanded Universe material as Shiv'Kala) in "Movements of Fire and Shadow", "The Fall of Centauri Prime", and "A Call to Arms"; and an alien soul in "The River of Souls". | |
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And then there's his roles on radio — it was said that he played so many parts on The Goon Show that whenever he was sick or unable to perform it took multiple actors to sub for him! | |
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In The Trail to Oregon!! literally every role other than the main five family members is played by Joey Richter, including one memorable scene where he has to switch between playing the Ox and the salesman selling the ox on-stage and mid-song. | |
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