Talk:Dual role

Moving !!!
How About Moving This Page To Dual Role ("r" → "R") ???
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 * DRAGON BOOSTER  ★  05:16, 22 October 2011 (UTC).

More dual-role occurrences on TV
At least one episode of McHale's Navy: Season 1 episode 31 has Joe Flynn as Captain Binghamton and in 2nd role (Seaman Smoot).

Van Drummonds episode of Diff'rent Strokes --- Dana Plato also played Hans

Addams Family: Carolyn Jones, who plays Morticia, also plays Trivia (sic) on an episode.

Flipper: Brian Kelly, who plays Porter Ricks, also plays a lookalike bad guy in an episode

On "Bewitched", there is an episode where Darrin's work side and Darrin's playful side are split into 2 Darrins. This article already mentions Elizabeth Montgomery as Serena, but does not say that Serena is credited as Pandora Spocks, and I have heard that some people even thought that was a different person. [Aug. 16, 2020: I will add Pandora Spocks reference here, because it's in the Bewitched article on wikipedia; can't say the same about some people thinking Pandora Spocks was a different person.]

Fred MacMurray as a 2nd character on a late My Three Sons episode.

Time Tunnel: Whit Bissel plays an officer in the control room, and the French Revolution episode also has him as an ancestor who lived at the time of that revolution.

The Party Duke Show constantly had Patty Duke playing identical cousins, and I understand William Schallert sometimes had dual roles.

The equivalent of dual role shows up in (animated) The Flintstones, in "The Tycoon", with J. L. Gotrocks being dead ringer for Fred Flintstone. There is a brief scene where those 2 characters turn up side by side, which does not create the problem you'd have with live actors (if both characters are to appear in same scene). Fred and a dead-ringer 2nd character show up in a later episode, where the 2nd character is a visiting king.

Carlm0404 (talk) 20:23, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

NOT dual-role occurrences on TV
Angels on the Street episode of Charlie's Angels in 1979. Amy Johnston plays Judy and Rose, and the investigating Angels don't yet know that they are the same person.

I Dream of Jeannie episode, where Jeannie handles a schedule conflict by making a 2nd copy of Sammy Davis Jr., who plays himself.

Alfred Hitchcock episode "Wally the Beard": Larry Blyden as both Walter Mills and Philip Marshall. Mills, putting on wig and beard, takes the Philip Marshall name and this has some of the other characters thinking that Mills and Marshall are 2 people.

Carlm0404 (talk) 20:31, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Why a dual role?
Besides giving the writers another storyline idea, it gives that actor a chance to play something other than his or her regular character. How much does this help with the problem of typecasting? Carlm0404 (talk) 13:53, 14 August 2020 (UTC)

COMPLAINT about removal
Martin IIIa: why did you remove all that material from the article on August 31? I mentioned the Patty Duke Show above before I realized it was among the material you removed from the article. Yes, I saw the point about listing every example, but please do provide that list somewhere, equivalent to what I see about an actor's filmography or a list of a show's episodes; for example, I like the convenience of being able to look up a wikipedia article for a Twilight Zone episode.

Dream is another device to work in a 2nd role
Right? : Dreams often involve people (and places) we know, but with some things shifted regarding them. The 1939 Wizard of Oz movie has "Professor" Marvel and the 3 farmhands in the Kansas scenes, and all 4 showing up in other roles in Oz as Wizard, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion. Notmally, we do not expect the dream character and the "real" character to show up at the same time in the same scene, right?

I just saw 2 dream sequences in c. 1967 Gomer Pyle USMC episodes. In one of them, Jim Nabors turns up in a dream of Sgt. Carter's as a character other than Gomer Pyle.

A late-3rd season episode of McHale's Navy has Capt. Binghamton dreaming twice, and the dreams have actors in different roles from those of Binghamton, McHale, and McHale's crew.

"Perchance to Dream" (Twilight Zone) has a man in a psychiatrist's office having dreams regarding a woman called Maya and he then realizes that Miss Thomas, the receptionist, looks just like Maya (and we see she's played by the same person). Carlm0404 (talk) 06:10, 14 September 2020 (UTC)