Actors and the Cinematic Characters They've Most Frequently Portrayed

Submitted by dgeiser13 on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 14:47
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  1. 28 Penny Singleton as "Blondie"
  2. 22 Sidney Toler as "Charlie Chan"
  3. 16 Warner Oland as "Charlie Chan"
  4. 15 Lionel Barrymore as "Dr. Leonard Gillespie"
  5. 14 Basil Rathbone as "Sherlock Holmes"
  6. 7 Sean Connery as "James Bond"
  7. 7 Roger Moore as "James Bond"
  8. 7 Jason Mewes as "Jay"
  9. 7 Leonard Nimoy as "Spock"
  10. 7 Kevin Smith as "Silent Bob"
  11. 7 Sylvester Stallone as "Rocky Balboa"
  12. 6 Judi Dench as "M"
  13. 6 William Powell as "Nick Charles"
  14. 5 Michael Caine as "Harry Palmer"
  15. 5 Clint Eastwood as "Harry Callahan"
  16. 5 Daniel Radcliffe as "Harry Potter"
  17. 5 Peter Sellers as "Jacques Clouseau"
  18. 4 Pierce Brosnan as "James Bond"
  19. 4 Harrison Ford as "Indiana Jones"
  20. 4 Mel Gibson as "Martin Riggs"
  21. 4 Michael Gough as "Alfred Pennyworth"
  22. 4 Pat Hingle as "Commissioner James Gordon"
  23. 4 Hugh Jackman as "Wolverine"
  24. 4 Christopher Reeve as "Superman"
  25. 4 Sylvester Stallone as "John Rambo"
  26. 4 Sigourney Weaver as "Ellen Ripley"
  27. 4 Bruce Willis as "John McClane"
  28. 3 Neve Campbell as "Sidney Prescott"
  29. 3 Tom Cruise as "Ethan Hunt"
  30. 3 Matt Damon as "Jason Bourne"
  31. 3 Johnny Depp as "Jack Sparrow"
  32. 3 Harrison Ford as "Han Solo"
  33. 3 Mel Gibson as "Max"
  34. 3 Samuel L. Jackson as "Mace Windu"
  35. 3 Tobey Maguire as "Spider-Man / Peter Parker"
  36. 3 Ewan McGregor as "Obi-Wan Kenobi"
  37. 3 Eddie Murphy as "Donkey"
  38. 3 Eddie Murphy as "Det. Axel Foley"
  39. 3 Al Pacino as "Michael Corleone"
  40. 3 Keanu Reeves as "Neo"
  41. 3 Wesley Snipes as "Blade"
  42. 3 John Travolta as "James Ubriacco"
  43. 2 Nicolas Cage as "Ben Gates"
  44. 2 Colin Clive as "Henry Frankenstein"
  45. 2 Gene Hackman as "Popeye Doyle"
  46. 2 Tom Hanks as "Robert Langdon"
  47. 2 Samuel L. Jackson as "Agent Augustus Gibbons"
  48. 2 Tommy Lee Jones as "Samuel Gerard"
  49. 2 Angelina Jolie as "Lara Croft"
  50. 2 Dean Jones as "Jim Douglas"
  51. 2 Michael Keaton as "Ray Nicolette"
  52. 2 Eddie Murphy as "Reggie Hammond"
  53. 2 Keanu Reeves as "Ted Logan"
  54. 2 Ben Stiller as "Larry Daley"
  55. 2 Ben Stiller as "Greg Focker"
  56. 2 Barbra Streisand as "Fanny Brice"
  57. 2 Spencer Tracy as "Stanley Banks"
  58. 2 John Travolta as "Tony Manero"
Author Comments: 

I'm 99% sure that 4 is the new 3.

dashforcover06/20/2009

Consider adding:
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan

AJDaGreat06/21/2009

May be a little more obscure than you'd like for this list, but the Blondie series was pretty extensive, if Penny Singleton's IMDB page is any indication.

dgeiser1306/21/2009

Yeah, there's that and some others. I'm not as concerned about the obscurity as much as the length of these barely "feature" films. I'll probably end up including them. I'm just trying to figure out a possible caveat (or not).

tomnov11/28/2009

This list was not very extensively researched before posting. I immediately thought of a much played character; Tarzan, played by Johnny Weismuller 12 times. Weismuller also played the character "Jungle Jim" in movies 13 times, not including the TV series. Buster Crabbe of Tarzan fame played a character named Billy Carson 23 times in westerns, as well as Billy The Kid 13 times. I can think off the top of my head also of at least 1 omission. John Wayne as "Rooster Cogburn" in at least 2 movies.

dgeiser1311/29/2009

You are correct. It wasn't researched at all before posting.