9 Actors You Didn't Know Played The Same Character In Different Movies

It's of course expected that the overwhelming majority of movies which fare well with critics

will inevitably end up with a sequel, in which the surviving main characters will return to

reprise their roles. But every so often, actors end up revisiting major roles in the most unexpected

of movies. So unexpected in fact that you might not even know it, or may have since forgotten that

it ever happened. These 10 actors were all given the opportunity to reprise one of the biggest

roles of their career, up to that point anyway, in a movie that absolutely nobody saw coming

I'm Gareth from WhatCulture.com and here are 9 actors you didn't know played the same character

in different movies. Number 9, Michael Keaton, Ray Nicolette, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight

Jackie Brown is unquestionably Quentin Tarantino's most underappreciated film. A star-studded and devilishly witty adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch

And one which features a memorably against tight turn from Michael Keaton as ATF agent Ray Nicolette

But while Jackie Brown was being shot, another Elmore Leonard novel was due to ramp up production

The Steven Soderbergh directed Out of Sight. Ray Nicolette also appeared in that novel

And so Soderbergh managed to convince Keaton to reprise the role for a brief uncredited cameo in his movie

Due to Miramax owning the screen rights to the character, however, it fell to Tarantino to insist that they didn't charge Universal

who distributed out of sight a fee to use Nicolette. As neat as a shared cinematic universe in which Tarantino and Soderbergh have both dabbled is

it's easily forgotten given how unassuming Keaton's tiny role is in Out of Sight

8. Travis Van Winkle, Trent, Transformers and Friday the 13th You probably don't much remember the character of Trent in Michael Bay's original Transformers

but he was Michaela Baines' stereotypically obnoxious jock ex-boyfriend and Sam Witwicky's high school nemesis

The character was a one-off in the Transformers franchise, and made no appearances in any of the sequels

Though this might be explained by the fact that Trent secretly resurfaces and dies in 2009's Friday the 13th remake

In the movie Travis Van Winkle plays another character called Trent who exhibits all the same off traits of his prior Transformers character An antagonistic bully douchebag who viewers are actively encouraged to despise

Trent of course ends up as one of Jason Voorhees' victims but given that Friday the 13th

was itself produced by Michael Bay there's absolutely no way in hell that this casting and namesake

were a mere coincidence. Number 7, Dan Aykroyd, Ray Stantz Ghostbusters and Casper

Dan Aykroyd's signature role is surely that of Ghostbusters Ray Stantz, a role he played in the first two movies

a number of animated TV series and video games, and also Ghostbusters Afterlife

Oh, and 1995's big screen adaptation of Casper. While Carrigan and her assistant Dibs attempt to have the McFadden mansion

purged of Casper's unruly uncles, better known as the ghastly trio, None other than Ray Stance is seen running out of the house in full Ghostbuster regalia, no less

On his way out, he says to Carrigan and Dibs, Who you gonna call? Someone else

Before fleeing the scene. And to dispel any doubt about the cameo

Aykroyd's costume has a visible name tag bearing the moniker Stance. Number 6, Michael Parks, Earl McGraw

From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill and Grindhouse. The late, great Michael Parks played the role of Texas Ranger Earl McGraw

in From Dusk Till Dawn's more restrained first half. And though he's quickly killed by bank robber siblings Seth and Richie Gekko

that was far from the last we saw of him on screen. McGraw makes a chronologically ambiguous reappearance in Tarantino's own Kill Bill Vol. 1

where he's seen investigating the wedding massacre which left the bride in a four-year coma

Amusingly, Parks also plays a totally different character, Esteban Vigheo, in Kill Bill Vol. 2

But it doesn't end there. Parks reprise McGraw again in Robert Rodriguez and Tarantino's exploitation collaboration Grindhouse

playing McGraw briefly in both of their movies, Planet Terror and Death Proof

5. Jason Statham, Frank Martin, The Transporter and Collateral The Transporter franchise, the first three movies anyway

starred Jason Statham as Frank Martin, a driver-slash-mercenary who will deliver any package to any location

if enough greenbacks are on the table. For a time Martin was Statham signature character enthusiastically dispatching the baddies while cutting a trim figure in a dark suit And according to Louis Leterrier who directed the first two Transporter films Martin made

an additional appearance outside of the series proper. You may well have forgotten that Michael Mann's terrific 2004 thriller Collateral begins with

Assassin Vincent swapping bags with a shady, unknown man at the airport, who just so happens

to be played by the Stath himself. Though the character is credited only as Airport Man, the Terrier later confirmed that it is indeed a canonical appearance by Frank Martin

Given that he's absolutely in the business of dropping off packages and making anonymous trades, it fits like a glove

4. Rob Schneider Nazo the Delivery Guy Big Daddy and Mr. Deeds

Big Daddy is one of the better Adam Sandler comedies of its era

an unapologetically immature yet surprisingly sweet film stocked with Sandler's usual supporting cast of best pals

Most prominently among them is Rob Schneider, who makes surely his most memorable Sandler movie cameo as Nazo

the deranged best friend and delivery man of protagonist Sonny. Though Schneider actually received a Razzie nomination for his performance in the film

it's honestly one of his less grating performances in a Sandler film, Even mustering a few honest-to-god chuckles, I tells ya

Yet, all but the most ardent Sandler fans will likely have no idea that Schneider actually reprised the role a few years later in Sandler's remake, Mr. Deeds

Granted, he's in the movie for literally two short scenes, and because Mr. Deeds didn't make anywhere near the same pop culture imprint as Big Daddy, it's a revival that's been largely forgotten to time

Number 3, Jamie Foxx, Django Freeman, Django Unchained, and A Million Ways to Die in the West

Jamie Foxx played the central role of vengeful former slave Django Freeman in Tarantino's Django Unchained

And while it was pretty reasonable to expect the character to be a one-off, Foxx actually reprised the part in the most unexpected of films

Django actually showed up at the very end of Seth MacFarlane's western comedy, A Million Ways to Die in the West

After the movie proper has finished but before the end credits actually roll Django pops up for a tiny cameo where he murders the operator of a racist shooting game called Runaway Slave and drops the film recurring one People Die at the Fair Number 2 Jamal Wollard Notorious B Notorious and All Eyes on Me Though 2009 Notorious

B.I.G. biopic Notorious received wildly mixed reviews, even those critics who dismissed the film

generally agreed that it featured a spot-on performance from Jamal Wollard as the ill-fated rap

icon. Wollard ended up unexpectedly reprising the part of Biggie eight years later. For

2017's Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyes On Me, albeit this time in a supporting capacity. Sadly, Wollard's performance wasn't

received quite so enthusiastically this time round, with many critics complaining that Wollard

who was 41 years old when All Eyes On Me was being shot, no longer resembled Biggie, who of course

died at just 24 years of age. Needless to say, Wollard has now firmly aged out of playing the

part ever again. But considering how the Tupac biopic came and went without a peep, you probably

never even knew he was in it. Number one, Ralph Bellamy and Donna Meachie. Randolph and Mortimer

Duke. Trading Places and Coming to America. In John Landis' beloved 1983 comedy Trading Places

the antagonists are Randolph and Mortimer Duke, the cruel commodity broker brothers who make a

high stakes bet to switch the life circumstances of a well-off broker with a street hustler

In the end, however, the tables end up turned as our heroes set up the Dukes to lose a staggering

$394 million, resulting in their personal and corporate assets both being confiscated

leaving them bankrupt. Hilariously, the Dukes make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in another collaboration between

Landis and Murphy. 1988's Coming to America. In the film, Prince Akeem Joffer walks past two homeless men and passes them a fat stack

of cash, and it's revealed moments later that the two men are in fact none other than

the Dukes themselves. The two even refer to one another by their first names, but the 30 second cameo is still

so fleeting that it's easily forgotten for all but the most hardcore fans

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