Actors who Played a Different Character on Same Show

[BluRayTim]

Jack Riley played several different characters on Diff’rent Strokes. And Jeffrey Tambor played a few different characters on Three’s Company.

[Spootnek]

The third season episode of M*A*S*H ''The General Flipped At Dawn'' featured Harry Morgan as Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele.
The next season he started playing Colonel Potter for the rest of the series and it's spinoff AfterMASH.

[Samus Aran]

Jeffrey Donovan was both a video game reviewer and a religious zealot on Law & Order, and now he's going to be one of the lead detectives.

[SeaSponge]

Originally Posted by jayman3

American Horror Story is the pinnacle of actors playing multiple roles in the same series

How very Dark Shadows of them!

[punisher]

Jennifer Taylor played two different girls on Two and Half Men..so did Judy Greer and Brooke D'orsay...

[JamesG.]

Big Sky

John Carroll Lynch played Rick Legarski on Season 1. After he was killed off, Lynch came back on Season 2 as Rick's twin brother Wolfgang "Wolf" Legarski.

[Josep5349]

John Mahoney and Peri Gilpin appeared in Cheers as different characters before going on to play Martin and Roz on Frasier (different shows though same universe).

[JamesG.]

Evan Rachel Wood will be playing a new character on "Westworld", Christina, when it returns for Season 4.

[Samus Aran]

John Stamos played Blackie on General Hospital, then came back as John Stamos.

How often does that happen?

[drb999]

Terry Serpico played 5 different characters on Law and Order SVU and two characters on the original Law and Order. Plus he played his recurring SVU role on the revival of Law and Order.

[RCRochester]

I recall Joan Van Ark appearing on multiple episodes of the Rockford Files as different characters.

[bladerunner6]

Originally Posted by EvaDK

Columbo had dozens of guest stars that played different characters between the episodes/seasons, among them Peter Falk's wife Shera Danese who was in six episodes.

Maud Adams, Jon Don Baker and Charles Gray have all appeared in two separate James Bond films as different characters.

Walter Gotell was Gogol in the Bond films and a Spectre operative in FRWL.

George Baker was in OHMSS and TSWLM.

Shane Rimmer was in TSWLM, DAF and YOLT.

[rikraq]

Neil Dudgeon was in an early episode of Midsomer Murders as one character and then came back later as the series lead, DCI Barnaby.

[JamesG.]

Maura Tierney had a one-off guest spot on "Law & Order" back in 1991.
She returned in 2024 as Lt. Jessica Brady.

[Indiana Jones]

Garwin Sanford played a recurring character in Stargate SG-1 then in the first episode of the spin-off Stargate Atlantis he played Dr Weir’s boyfriend which was really odd bit of casting IMO

[earthwormjim]

Chip Zien starred in four episodes of Law & Order and played a different character in each episode:
S1.E5-Happily Ever After-Homeless man
S3.E13. Night And Fog-Mr Green
S11.E20-All My Children-Steven Cromwel
S12.E14-Missing Defense Attorney

[tikigod]

Lisa Hartman played Ciji Dunne on Knot's Landing, got murdered, then came back as Cathy Geary only to be smacked around by Alec Baldwin---who later tripped and fell off a building to his death.

[Rzzzz]

Elizabeth Montgomery....



in Bewitched...



I cant wait to get my hands on the Imprint release!

[meremortal]

Mick Foley played three characters during the 1998 Royal Rumble: Cactus Jack, Dude Love and Mankind.

[Crimson King]

Harry Morgan played Gen. Steele on MASH, before becoming regular character Sherman T. Potter.

Both Steve Landsberg, and Ron Carey previously played criminals, before becoming regulars as detectives on Barney Miller.