Actors in different adaptations of play/novel: Neil North.....

[Maurice]

THE WINSLOW BOY (UK/US, 1999) dir. David Mamet



Neil North who played title role in 1948 version is First Lord of the Admiralty.



Are there other examples of actors appearing in different adaptations of the same play or novel?



There was surprise that the 1999 remake did not receive any Academy Award nominations.



Were any locations used for the naval college? IMDb says only London.

[will.15]

Francis L. Sullivan played Jaggers in the 1934 and 1946 versions of Great Expectations.



Jean Simmons was the young Estella in the 1946 version of GE and Miss Havisham in the 1989 TV mini series.



Humphrey Bogart was Duke Mantee in the 1936 Petrified Forest and also in the 1955 television version.

[Fellwanderer]

Jenny as Roberta in the 1968 and1970 versions of The Railway Children and Mother in the 2000 version.



Jenny as Jill Mason in the1977 film of Equus and as Hesther Saloman in the 2007 play.

[CaptainWaggett]

Ivor Novello played The Lodger twice

Mary Clare played the same role in two different films of Hindle Wakes

Patrick Stewart has twice been Claudius in Hamlet

[will.15]

Boris Karloff originated the role of Johnathan Brewster in the original Broadway stage version, but not in the Frank Capra movie. But he was Brewster in the 1946 radio adaptation and the 1949, 1955, and 1962 television versions. Josephine Hull was in the movie and 1949 television version as Abby Brewster. Helen Hayes was Abby Brewster in the 1955 and 1968 television versions.

[Maurice]

THE LITTLE FUGITIVE (US, 1953) 80 mins - available on DVD (Region 1)



Morris Engel, one of the film's three directors, was nominated for an Oscar and appeared briefly in the 2006 remake directed by Joanna Lipper.



Seven-year-old Joey is tricked into believing he killed his older brother and flees to Coney Island.



The 1953 film invites comparison with another classic, THE RED BALLOON (France, 1956), because the central part of the story is told without dialogue (but with a distinctive harmonica solo).



Joey is played by Richie Andrusco, a non-professional actor whose only other screen appearance, according to IMDb, is an episode of I SPY (TV, 1955).

[will.15]

Bing Crosby starred in the 1936 and 1953 version of Anything Goes.

[CaptainWaggett]

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Boris Karloff originated the role of Johnathan Brewster in the original Broadway stage version, but not in the Frank Capra movie. But he was Brewster in the 1946 radio adaptation and the 1949, 1955, and 1962 television versions. Josephine Hull was in the movie and 1949 television version as Abby Brewster. Helen Hayes was Abby Brewster in the 1955 and 1968 television versions.

Peter Lorre did film and tv versions of Arsenic and Old Lace too.

[Timmy_Lea]

Michael Caine played Milo Tindle in the 1972 version of Sleuth.

Michael Caine played Andrew Wyke in the 2007 version of Sleuth.

[Windthrop]

Diana Rigg and her daughter have played the same part in Theatre of Blood in film and stage versions respectively.



John Mills, famously played Pip in the film of Great Expectationsand later played Joe Gargery in a stage version.

[Windthrop]

Stretching the perameters of the thread a bit, Eric Sykes recyled some of the cast members when he remade some of his 60s silent comedies in the 80s

[Gerald Lovell]

Peter Cushing played Sherlock Holmes in Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1959 and then again in the BBC's two-part version in 1968.

[jaycad]

Ian richardson played 'mr fairlie' in both BBC adaptstions of wilkie collins' 'the woman in white'

Denholm elliot played 'dr manners' in armchair theatre episode ' man and mirror' and again in the BBC 'supernatural' episode 'lady sybil' which are both adaptations of a short story by robert muller.

[jaycad]

David suchet played 'inspector japp' in 'thirteen for dinner' and 'hercule poirot' in the correctly titled 'lord edgware dies'

[wadsy]

John Barrymore played Captain Ahab in "The Sea Beast" 1926 & "Moby Dick" 1930.

[Gerald Lovell]

Christopher Lee in Dracula (1958) and then again in Count Dracula (1970).

[batman]

Not quite the same thing but ...



Richard Greene was 'Robin Hood' in the TV series and also played him in Hammer's film version.



Ralph Byrd played 'Dick Tracy' in cliffhanger serials, B-movies and a TV series.



Robert Powell played 'Hannay' in the 70s film of The 39 Steps and in the 80s TV series Hannay.



Also ...



Many 'classic' Hollywood films were adapted for radio using the original casts.

[Gerald Lovell]

Lewis Stone was in Scaramouche (1923) and Scaramouche (1952), but playing different characters. He was also in two versions of The Prisoner of Zenda (1922 and 1952).

[wadsy]

Alan Hale played "Little John" in Robin Hood 1922, The Adventures of Robin



Hood 1938 & Rogues of Sherwood Forest 1950.

[Kitty Whiskers]

Michael Caine turned up in both versions of Get Carter.



But then that drifts into that Hollywood thing of trying to give a ghastly remake respectability by having the original star make a cameo appearance. Like Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum turning up in Cape Fear.