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    Actors who have played multiple "genre" heroes on the screen

    I've just read that a film called Enola Holmes will be released on Netflix this year, based on a series of books about Sherlock Holmes' younger sister. Portraying Sherlock will be Henry (Man of Steel, Justice League) Cavill. It got me to thinking about other actors who've played more than one famous "genre" hero on the screen.

    Frank Langella is probably most famous for his 1979 appearance in that year's Dracula. But he has also appeared as Zorro (The Mark of Zorro, 1974) and as Sherlock Holmes in a 1981 telecast of a stage play.

    Christopher Lee played Holmes in a number of films (as well as playing Holmes' brother Mycroft in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Henry Baskerville in a 1959 Hammer Films production of The Hound of the Baskervilles), and he also played Dracula many times, as well as Frankenstein's Monster and Dr. Fu Manchu. (The only other actor I can think of who played both of those last two characters was Boris Karloff.)

    Clayton Moore was t.v.'s incomparable Lone Ranger, but he also portrayed Zorro in a 1959 film called The Ghost of Zorro.

    Gordon Scott, my favorite screen Tarzan, was also Zorro in a 1963 Italian movie called Zorro and the Three Musketeers, and appeared in other Italian "peplum" (sword and sandal films) as Hercules and Maciste.

    Ron Ely, another favorite Tarzan, was also Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze and in an episode of a short-lived 'Superboy' t.v. series played a retired, alternate universe Superman.
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    I went on a date with a girl once and she asked me if I wanted to come back to her place to watch a movie. I said OK. So we get to her place and I ask what movie we are going to watch. Ha. We ended up watching the Robert Downey Jnr Sherlock movie. It was OK I guess. I liked the xray punch part.

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    Fascinating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    Fascinating.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheOneOnly2 View Post
    I went on a date with a girl once and she asked me if I wanted to come back to her place to watch a movie. I said OK. So we get to her place and I ask what movie we are going to watch. Ha. We ended up watching the Robert Downey Jnr Sherlock movie. It was OK I guess. I liked the xray punch part.
    Downey Jr. is certainly not the traditional Holmes. He's short, for one thing, he talks far too much and he lacks personal discipline. Downey's character is entertaining enough, but it's hard to take him seriously as Sherlock Holmes.

    Physically, the Holmes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories was Basil Rathbone.



    Although Rathbone always played him a bit too civilized and charming. The late Jeremy Brett, in his many Holmes films done for the BBC in the '80s and '90s, really brought out Holmes' quirkiness and mercurial nature, but in a subtle way - not like Downey's non-stop monologues and slapstick.
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    Hmmm. We can look at more recent actors and the superhero genre. There are tons of them.

    Ben Afleck played DareDevil and Batman.

    Chris Evans played the fire guy in Fantastic 4 and Captain America

    Tommy Lee Jones played Two Face and MIB (Although that may be a stretch comparison)

    Ryan Reynolds played DeadPool and The Green Lantern
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    John Wayne:

    He played the hero in many westerns.
    In several war movies.

    In a few period romances. (The Quiet Man & Trouble Along the Way)



    In a few police / detective movies (McQ and Brannigan)




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    Quote Originally Posted by Private Pickle View Post
    Hmmm. We can look at more recent actors and the superhero genre. There are tons of them.

    Ben Afleck played DareDevil and Batman.

    Chris Evans played the fire guy in Fantastic 4 and Captain America

    Tommy Lee Jones played Two Face and MIB (Although that may be a stretch comparison)

    Ryan Reynolds played DeadPool and The Green Lantern
    And if we're going to allow superhero roles - and there's no reason not to - Jason Momoa was both Aquaman and Conan the Barbarian.

    Halle Berry was both Catwoman and Storm from the X-Men.

    And Brandon Routh, who starred in the underrated Superman Returns became The Atom on 'DC's Legends of the Universe'.

    Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Strange.

    Nicholas Cage - Ghostrider in two movies and Big Daddy in Kick-Ass.

    Speaking of Kick-Ass, here's a weird one. Aaron Taylor-Johnson was Kick-Ass in that movie and Dave Lizewski played his best friend. Taylor-Johnson went on to play Quicksilver in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Lizewski played Quicksilver in a couple of X-Men movies.

    Michelle Pfeiffer was both Catwoman and Janet Van Dyne, the original Wasp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    John Wayne:

    He played the hero in many westerns.
    In several war movies.

    In a few period romances. (The Quiet Man & Trouble Along the Way)



    In a few police / detective movies (McQ and Brannigan)




    Adventure: In Island in the Sky -


    Same with Clint Eastwood! He followed almost the exact same route acting wise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    And if we're going to allow superhero roles - and there's no reason not to - Jason Momoa was both Aquaman and Conan the Barbarian.

    Halle Berry was both Catwoman and Storm from the X-Men.

    And Brandon Routh, who starred in the underrated Superman Returns became The Atom on 'DC's Legends of the Universe'.
    I forgot about Halle Berry which is a sin I must repent for...

    I actually thought Brandon Routh was a great Superman but that movie kinda sucked.
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