Tuesday, June 8, 2010

TRIVIA BITS ... MOVIE SPLIT PERSONALTIES

TRIVIA BITS ...

MOVIE SPLIT PERSONALTIES

Many actors, particularly comedians, have played several roles within one movie. As well as showing the actor’s virtuosity – the role can be relied upon for extra publicity.

Some of the most memorable roles have been:

Kind Hearts and Coronets  (1948) - in which Alec Guinness played with different roles.

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Dr Strangelove or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – in which Peter Sellers played three roles

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The Nutty Professor  and  The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps  – in which Eddie Murphy played most of the large Klump family  - seven and eight roles respectively

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Perhaps even more impressively, in the days before sophisticated make-up, prosthetics and digital re-touching, a British actor, Rolf Leslie is recorded as playing 27 different roles in Sixty year a Queen (1913) – an early Ealing Studio film about Queen Victoria.

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