I Had No Idea That Was The Same Actor

[emuboy]

Another one the other way around.

After Henri Szeps passed away last week I was looking up the cast of Australian sitcom 'Mother and Son' to see if any other cast members besides the late Ruth Cracknell had passed on since the series ended in 1994.

I had always thought that Arthur's ex-wife Dierdre who would appear from time to time was played by Garry McDonald's real-life wife Diane Craig, but in fact she was played by an actress named Suzanne Roylance who appeared in a number of Australian TV shows from the late 1970s to mid 1990s, but no credited roles after 1997.

 

[emuboy]

Three for American actor Bob Odenkirk from three memorable episodes of three different TV series I liked from the 2000s. Two of these I didn't realize it was him, and the other where I thought he had played the role but it was in fact a similar looking actor:

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: In a very early episode of CYE all the way back in 2000, Larry David makes a new friend at the country club while playing golf, a man named Gil who invites Larry and Cheryl to a dinner party which he and his wife are hosting. Of course things don't go smoothly, with Larry getting hopelessly lost on the drive there and them arriving late. Things only get worse when it turns out Gil was a former adult actor and regales the guests with amusing anecdotes from making these films (not impressing the prissy Cheryl David) and Gil's wife proves to be a total control-freak nutcase, who screeches at Larry over several faux pas he committed in the house. Larry is banished by Cheryl to the couch for the night when he recounts some of the evening's events and makes jokes about them, then the next day Jeff is in hospital for heart irregularities and asks Larry to remove his porno collection from the house in case Susie should find it while he is away. Larry does just this, but becomes distracted when he notices that Gil is in one of Jeff's adult movies, is overcome with curiosity and puts on the video to see for himself, only for Susie to return home with Jeff's parents and find Larry David in the lounge-room watching a porno. I had no idea Bob Odenkirk played the role of Gil in this episode.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER: One of the more memorable HIMYM episodes 'Chain of Screaming' from the late 2000s sees Marshall get a job in a corporate law firm, only to have a tyrant of a boss named Arthur Hobbs, who shouts at Marshall over a late report and making him (Marshall) cry. The Arthur Hobbs character worked so well that the next season his was resurrected and again becoming Marshall's boss when he changed jobs and took a position at the company where Marshall was now working. Like with CYE, I had no idea Bob Odenkirk played the role of Arthur in HIMYM.


COLD CASE: This one goes the other way; I had always thought that Bob Odenkirk played the role of Henry Jones in the memorable but hard-hitting and controversial 2005 episode 'Strange Fruit', in which the squad reopen an unsolved 1963 case in which a young Black man is hanged from a tree. For years I thought Odenkirk played this generally unlikeable character, but he was played by an actor similar in looks named Scott Alan Smith. I won't give away spoilers in this one, but your chances of seeing it aren't good. Cold Case has never been made available on home media or streaming services due to music copyright issues, and this episode is never screened in syndication. This is a pity because it is a well-made episode and sees the on-screen debut of actress Liana Liberato - then aged 9 - playing the role of Henry's daughter.

 

[Registered User]

FMD! I had no idea that Ian McShane was in the 1969 Battle of Britain movie, and I've probably seen it 10 times.

 

[Registered User]

I had no idea Bruce McGill was in Animal House

 

[Frank Bunn]

Michael McKean.

Spinal Tap.




Also, Better Call Saul.

 

[troybe]

Michael McKean.

Spinal Tap.

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Also, Better Call Saul.

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[Registered User]

This is off topic, but I had no idea that Star Trek's Denise Crosby is Bing's granddaughter, and I've watched a LOT of Star
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