Film buffs only: Name an actor/actress that...

[ChipWrecked]

2. is a rat bastard. Plenty of 'parlayed stage role into movie' folks, but I'm drawing a blank on movie/movie with this restriction.

[samjjones]

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1) Can't remember the name, but Agent Smith in the Matrix who was also the Elf King dude in LOTR.

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Good one. Hugo Weaving.

[samjjones]

2. Two other easy ones are Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo series) and Talia Shire (Rocky, Godfather series).

[diebitter]

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2. is a rat bastard. Plenty of 'parlayed stage role into movie' folks, but I'm drawing a blank on movie/movie with this restriction.

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Yeah, there's two others I think, and the character was Dracula in both cases.

Christopher Lee played him in the Hammer series and some dodgy Spanish production, and John Carradine played him in several unrelated films.

I'm pretty sure there are no others though.

[Kirg]

1) Hugo Weaving (Matrix (Agent Smith) and Lord of the Rings (Elrond))

2) Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy (They play the same characters in Before Sunrise/Before Sunset as they do in Waking Life, and altough all 3 are from the same director Waking Life is not connected to the Before's.)

3) Sean Connery (The Bowler and the Bonnet)

4) Noone beats Depp.

[imported_The Vibesman]

Batman Returns

(That has appeared as the same character in films not necessarily connected as a 'series'
Sean Connery as James Bond in the Cubby Broccoli series, and in 'Never say Never Again')

Nothing about # of films.

[imported_The Vibesman]

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Clint Eastwood was "The Man With No Name" in "A Fistful of Dollars", "A Few Dollars More", and "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", and Harry Callahan in the "Dirty Harry" series.

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I simply cannot believe I didn't come up with this.

[Kirg]

Since someone else mentioned Huge Weaving while I was typing.

1) Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings (Gandalf) and X-Men (Magneto, nr 3 is in the making)

I guess if you count X-men 3 you can also add Patrick Stewart for X-men and Star Trek.

[jakethebake]

Marlon Brando - The Godfather & Superman (although he wasn't in all the movies of each trilogy, he was in both series)

Peter Cushing - Star Wars & Dracula

James Earl Jones - Star Wars & the Tom Clancy series (Clear & Present Danger, etc.)

[Hal 2000]

2) My favorite: Carl Weathers as Chubbs Petersen in both 'Happy Gilmore' and 'Little Nicky'.