creating one memorable character in a
film is hard work
yeah I guess so yeah hats off to those
guys who create two or more in one film
now Charlie tells me at a bicha yes I am
a butcher do you link your own sausage
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
actors playing multiple roles in movies
oh did it go there they go every time I
start talking about boxing a white man
got the pool rocket marching on out
there that’s the one that’s the one
rocking out how to rap my powder for
this list we’re considering movies in
which one actor played more than one
role however we’re excluding movies like
Tootsie or mrs. Doubtfire because
technically those actors are just
playing one role that role just happens
to involve dressing up as someone else
but underneath it all they’re still them
and just so you know a spoiler alert may
be in order well that is if you
understood the prestige number 10 Hugh
Jackman the prestige what you’re about
to see
is considered safe for whatever reason
most multiple role performances are
found in comedies hugh jackman therefore
deserves special credit for duplicating
the gimmick success in a drama
particular scene Jackman portrays a
talented magician driven by fierce
competition both personal and
professional with his rival played by
Christian Bale who may or may not also
play multiple roles
along the way his anger ambition and
determination to be the more impressive
act leads him down a dark path you’re
about to witness it’s not magic it’s
purely science while these qualities are
hinted at when he turns up later as a
titled Lord they are made even more
evident when we find out about the
clones and murders involved with his
so-called death-defying trick No number
9 Alec Guinness Kind Hearts and Coronets
that was my employer Lord ESCO ESCO
actor’s dream of the kind of showcase
that kind Hearts and Coronets provided
Alec Guinness but it takes a true dream
of an actor to pull it off that was at
milord of issue desk Oh
Guinness does so dazzling viewers with
his impeccably delivered performances
hey you will get on with that personal
never mind what we are talking about
don’t you dare touch when I get each of
the eight characters he essays is
indelibly drawn even when they have
scant screen time that was general or
foofa’s desk on the nuances the gestures
and the telling traits with which
Guinness imbues his characters comprise
a master class in cinema acting that was
Lady Agatha descon and in peerless
comedic skill the knife cut Sean was one
rich in achievement and promise of
service to humanity
number eight Tyler Perry the Medea
franchise all right you right Tyler
Perry creates an unforgettable character
in Medea Simmons a tough awesomely
vindictive and hilariously opinionated
woman who creates a riot whenever she
appears on the screen can you just hope
it will time
the indelible Medea would be achievement
enough but Perry didn’t stop there he
also portrays madea’s brother Joe a
crazy and ornery old man who always has
an insult handy you is funny you are the
next Lenny Bruce you Friday and her
nephew Brian who attempts to bring a
little sanity into the chaotic world of
medea I need you to help me get this
money back from lockwise lockwise
industries New York yeah that is a Ponzi
scheme man Perry manages to make these
three disparate characters seem like
part of the same dysfunctional family in
the film series we have a very private
family moment right now you need to take
that little baby and y’all come on back
some other time now go now go okay okay
number seven Michael J Fox the Back to
the Future franchise mom mom say you
tomtravel does weird things to people
and when you’re an actor it often lets
you play your own ancestors and
descendants nobody calls me chicken
needles nobody though the first film
doesn’t feature multiple roles in the
Back to the Future sequels
Michael J Fox is Marty McFly comes into
contact with his great-great-grandfather
okay fetch the water we got a Hertz
miner and his future son and daughter as
well as an older version of himself and
audiences ate it up I’m not sure where
Jennifer is mom sure bet on hours ago
with box handles the job with the ease
and comic slickness that defined his
best work with a few deft touches he
tells the audience all they need to know
about these characters
dad is for you all right mom take down
the den excuse me
contract number six John Cleese Monty
Python and the Holy Grail what none
shall pass I have no quarrel with you
Goods tonight
members of the Monty Python comedy
troupe excel at multiple roles but John
Cleese goes above and beyond in his
characterizations in this comedy classic
I thought in your general direction your
mother was a hamster and your father
smelt of elderberries
his gallant Lancelot is stalwart and
slightly lunk headed his French soldier
is eccentric Lee bizarre Kachina mosh
claw fetch it up here his Black Knight
is the epitome of stubborn foolishness
I’m invincible you’re a loony the Black
Knights always trump and no wizard and
Hogwarts was ever so impressive as his
enchanter revealing his name by what
name are you known that our son will
call me him they’re all unmistakeably
John Cleese but also strikingly
individual and most of all they’re
unbearably funny look you stupid bastard
you’ve got the arms left yes I have look
just a flesh wound
number 5 Mel Brooks
Spaceballs good good silliness hilarity
crudeness and Zayn eNOS in more or less
equal parts that’s what defines a good
Mel Brooks movie yo hi to me heard of
you who hasn’t heard of yogurt that’s
also what defines Brooks own
performances in space balls never
underestimate the power of the Schwartz
as skroob the president of a planet that
has exhausted its own atmosphere he’s a
typical Brooks Ian character full of
vaudeville shtick played straight
beasties what’s happened to his head
it’s on backwards this is terrible do
something the same could be said of his
other character yogurt but there Brooks
gets to layer in a bit more tenderness
nithi anything for a laugh facade
Spaceballs the dog me – watch me with
you number four Charlie Chaplin the
Great Dictator ah Charlie Chaplin is
known for primarily playing one
character
The Little Tramp most amusing but the
immortal Chaplin served double duty in
his classic satire the Great Dictator
with ain’t here for clutter Alice
container to sacrifice one character
known only as the barber is in the
Little Tramp tradition the other based
on Adolf Hitler is a totally separate
piece of comedic brilliance both
characters evoke gales of laughter but
the tone is distinctly different one
laughs with the Jewish barber and at the
dictator back demonstrating that
laughter can be a dangerous weapon
against tyrants
number three Mike Myers the Austin
Powers franchise very shagadelic baby
yeah the box-office failure of so I
married an axe murderer fortunately
didn’t deter Mike Myers from attempting
multiple roles again I’m dead sexy look
at my sexy body oh yeah
otherwise the world would have been
bereft of Austin Powers and dr. evil rah
and that would mean no shag Alicia’s no
dr. evil air quotes or pinky moves 100
billion dollars more mini-me
breathtaking I shall call him mini-me
powers and evil have become iconic pop
culture characters and their
over-the-top personas are a tribute to
Myers when he’s got all his mojo
all right slap head turn around
where’s my mojo number two Eddie Murphy
the Nutty Professor franchise morning
from coming to America to Bowfinger and
Norbit Eddie Murphy has made a habit of
playing multiple roles in many of his
movies but he really shines in the Nutty
Professor films oh come on we’re
quitting my show won’t come over being
in you gonna live Mac yo
was he limping back Jerry Lewis may have
created three characters in the 1963
original but Murphy throws himself into
seven different roles for his first film
you need to go down to the laboratory
mix you up another batch of this blue
stuff come on back to the party chermen
because Colin doesn’t want you she wants
me sure the main ones are the kind
hearted professor Klump and the sleek
and sexy buddy love but his ability
really shines through when he takes on
the other members of the Klump family
with devastatingly fun results dicks sad
hear me come on Roger
Oh in fact I’m my father look at the
little bill he’s a little Hercules you
Shelly muscle again oh please
luckily before we reveal our top pick
here are some honorable mentions
oh no I’ve got goose bumps my god so not
an only child I’m a twin this your
brother I love you both and your love
has meant nothing to either of us it has
meant something to me
yeah give me the gory details son number
one
it’s a goddamn massacre pop you have met
we not fuckin business
you would have been my number one lady
oh those are my records what are you
doing you’re not gonna get this girl by
sitting around listening to records and
jerking off you can’t fight in here this
is the war room
number one Peter Sellers dr. Strangelove
or how I learned to stop worrying and
love the bomb yes the accomplice who all
just come in the comic genius that was
Peter Sellers created enduring multiple
roles in the mouse that roared which
brings me a gentlemen to the question of
non-fraternization but it was his
amazing triple turn in dr. Strangelove
that landed him at the top of this list
I’m coming through fine to a good then
well then as you say we’re both coming
through fine Stanley Kubrick’s black
farce was a high wire act that required
absolutely pitch perfect tone in order
to succeed a moment please mr. president
sellers manages to achieve that while
turning in three wildly different
performances mm yes I am I’m quite see
what you’re getting it from the stiffly
British captain man Drake to the
soft-spoken and bewildered US president
I was under the impression that I was
the only one in authority to order the
use of nuclear weapons to the demented
and slapstick inspired dr. Strangelove
Sellars work is the definition of
chameleon ik huh
and simply can’t be equal I have a plane
yeah do you agree with our list
what other actors who played multiple
roles or your favorite hell are you
doing here are you talking about what
the hell am I doing here I come here
I’ll touch my favorite restaurant I get
a steak and I know that it was my
favorite restaurant first for more in
throwing top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com doing
great you can be star
film is hard work
yeah I guess so yeah hats off to those
guys who create two or more in one film
now Charlie tells me at a bicha yes I am
a butcher do you link your own sausage
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
actors playing multiple roles in movies
oh did it go there they go every time I
start talking about boxing a white man
got the pool rocket marching on out
there that’s the one that’s the one
rocking out how to rap my powder for
this list we’re considering movies in
which one actor played more than one
role however we’re excluding movies like
Tootsie or mrs. Doubtfire because
technically those actors are just
playing one role that role just happens
to involve dressing up as someone else
but underneath it all they’re still them
and just so you know a spoiler alert may
be in order well that is if you
understood the prestige number 10 Hugh
Jackman the prestige what you’re about
to see
is considered safe for whatever reason
most multiple role performances are
found in comedies hugh jackman therefore
deserves special credit for duplicating
the gimmick success in a drama
particular scene Jackman portrays a
talented magician driven by fierce
competition both personal and
professional with his rival played by
Christian Bale who may or may not also
play multiple roles
along the way his anger ambition and
determination to be the more impressive
act leads him down a dark path you’re
about to witness it’s not magic it’s
purely science while these qualities are
hinted at when he turns up later as a
titled Lord they are made even more
evident when we find out about the
clones and murders involved with his
so-called death-defying trick No number
9 Alec Guinness Kind Hearts and Coronets
that was my employer Lord ESCO ESCO
actor’s dream of the kind of showcase
that kind Hearts and Coronets provided
Alec Guinness but it takes a true dream
of an actor to pull it off that was at
milord of issue desk Oh
Guinness does so dazzling viewers with
his impeccably delivered performances
hey you will get on with that personal
never mind what we are talking about
don’t you dare touch when I get each of
the eight characters he essays is
indelibly drawn even when they have
scant screen time that was general or
foofa’s desk on the nuances the gestures
and the telling traits with which
Guinness imbues his characters comprise
a master class in cinema acting that was
Lady Agatha descon and in peerless
comedic skill the knife cut Sean was one
rich in achievement and promise of
service to humanity
number eight Tyler Perry the Medea
franchise all right you right Tyler
Perry creates an unforgettable character
in Medea Simmons a tough awesomely
vindictive and hilariously opinionated
woman who creates a riot whenever she
appears on the screen can you just hope
it will time
the indelible Medea would be achievement
enough but Perry didn’t stop there he
also portrays madea’s brother Joe a
crazy and ornery old man who always has
an insult handy you is funny you are the
next Lenny Bruce you Friday and her
nephew Brian who attempts to bring a
little sanity into the chaotic world of
medea I need you to help me get this
money back from lockwise lockwise
industries New York yeah that is a Ponzi
scheme man Perry manages to make these
three disparate characters seem like
part of the same dysfunctional family in
the film series we have a very private
family moment right now you need to take
that little baby and y’all come on back
some other time now go now go okay okay
number seven Michael J Fox the Back to
the Future franchise mom mom say you
tomtravel does weird things to people
and when you’re an actor it often lets
you play your own ancestors and
descendants nobody calls me chicken
needles nobody though the first film
doesn’t feature multiple roles in the
Back to the Future sequels
Michael J Fox is Marty McFly comes into
contact with his great-great-grandfather
okay fetch the water we got a Hertz
miner and his future son and daughter as
well as an older version of himself and
audiences ate it up I’m not sure where
Jennifer is mom sure bet on hours ago
with box handles the job with the ease
and comic slickness that defined his
best work with a few deft touches he
tells the audience all they need to know
about these characters
dad is for you all right mom take down
the den excuse me
contract number six John Cleese Monty
Python and the Holy Grail what none
shall pass I have no quarrel with you
Goods tonight
members of the Monty Python comedy
troupe excel at multiple roles but John
Cleese goes above and beyond in his
characterizations in this comedy classic
I thought in your general direction your
mother was a hamster and your father
smelt of elderberries
his gallant Lancelot is stalwart and
slightly lunk headed his French soldier
is eccentric Lee bizarre Kachina mosh
claw fetch it up here his Black Knight
is the epitome of stubborn foolishness
I’m invincible you’re a loony the Black
Knights always trump and no wizard and
Hogwarts was ever so impressive as his
enchanter revealing his name by what
name are you known that our son will
call me him they’re all unmistakeably
John Cleese but also strikingly
individual and most of all they’re
unbearably funny look you stupid bastard
you’ve got the arms left yes I have look
just a flesh wound
number 5 Mel Brooks
Spaceballs good good silliness hilarity
crudeness and Zayn eNOS in more or less
equal parts that’s what defines a good
Mel Brooks movie yo hi to me heard of
you who hasn’t heard of yogurt that’s
also what defines Brooks own
performances in space balls never
underestimate the power of the Schwartz
as skroob the president of a planet that
has exhausted its own atmosphere he’s a
typical Brooks Ian character full of
vaudeville shtick played straight
beasties what’s happened to his head
it’s on backwards this is terrible do
something the same could be said of his
other character yogurt but there Brooks
gets to layer in a bit more tenderness
nithi anything for a laugh facade
Spaceballs the dog me – watch me with
you number four Charlie Chaplin the
Great Dictator ah Charlie Chaplin is
known for primarily playing one
character
The Little Tramp most amusing but the
immortal Chaplin served double duty in
his classic satire the Great Dictator
with ain’t here for clutter Alice
container to sacrifice one character
known only as the barber is in the
Little Tramp tradition the other based
on Adolf Hitler is a totally separate
piece of comedic brilliance both
characters evoke gales of laughter but
the tone is distinctly different one
laughs with the Jewish barber and at the
dictator back demonstrating that
laughter can be a dangerous weapon
against tyrants
number three Mike Myers the Austin
Powers franchise very shagadelic baby
yeah the box-office failure of so I
married an axe murderer fortunately
didn’t deter Mike Myers from attempting
multiple roles again I’m dead sexy look
at my sexy body oh yeah
otherwise the world would have been
bereft of Austin Powers and dr. evil rah
and that would mean no shag Alicia’s no
dr. evil air quotes or pinky moves 100
billion dollars more mini-me
breathtaking I shall call him mini-me
powers and evil have become iconic pop
culture characters and their
over-the-top personas are a tribute to
Myers when he’s got all his mojo
all right slap head turn around
where’s my mojo number two Eddie Murphy
the Nutty Professor franchise morning
from coming to America to Bowfinger and
Norbit Eddie Murphy has made a habit of
playing multiple roles in many of his
movies but he really shines in the Nutty
Professor films oh come on we’re
quitting my show won’t come over being
in you gonna live Mac yo
was he limping back Jerry Lewis may have
created three characters in the 1963
original but Murphy throws himself into
seven different roles for his first film
you need to go down to the laboratory
mix you up another batch of this blue
stuff come on back to the party chermen
because Colin doesn’t want you she wants
me sure the main ones are the kind
hearted professor Klump and the sleek
and sexy buddy love but his ability
really shines through when he takes on
the other members of the Klump family
with devastatingly fun results dicks sad
hear me come on Roger
Oh in fact I’m my father look at the
little bill he’s a little Hercules you
Shelly muscle again oh please
luckily before we reveal our top pick
here are some honorable mentions
oh no I’ve got goose bumps my god so not
an only child I’m a twin this your
brother I love you both and your love
has meant nothing to either of us it has
meant something to me
yeah give me the gory details son number
one
it’s a goddamn massacre pop you have met
we not fuckin business
you would have been my number one lady
oh those are my records what are you
doing you’re not gonna get this girl by
sitting around listening to records and
jerking off you can’t fight in here this
is the war room
number one Peter Sellers dr. Strangelove
or how I learned to stop worrying and
love the bomb yes the accomplice who all
just come in the comic genius that was
Peter Sellers created enduring multiple
roles in the mouse that roared which
brings me a gentlemen to the question of
non-fraternization but it was his
amazing triple turn in dr. Strangelove
that landed him at the top of this list
I’m coming through fine to a good then
well then as you say we’re both coming
through fine Stanley Kubrick’s black
farce was a high wire act that required
absolutely pitch perfect tone in order
to succeed a moment please mr. president
sellers manages to achieve that while
turning in three wildly different
performances mm yes I am I’m quite see
what you’re getting it from the stiffly
British captain man Drake to the
soft-spoken and bewildered US president
I was under the impression that I was
the only one in authority to order the
use of nuclear weapons to the demented
and slapstick inspired dr. Strangelove
Sellars work is the definition of
chameleon ik huh
and simply can’t be equal I have a plane
yeah do you agree with our list
what other actors who played multiple
roles or your favorite hell are you
doing here are you talking about what
the hell am I doing here I come here
I’ll touch my favorite restaurant I get
a steak and I know that it was my
favorite restaurant first for more in
throwing top 10s published every day be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com doing
great you can be star
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