Three Actors, Three Trilogies Each

Lord Panic · 23-09-2009 10:17pm #1

An old question came up today in work and we wrecked our heads trying to think of an answer...

Can anyone name three actors that have been in three trilogies each? As in...

actor 1 - three trilogies, nine movies total.

actor 2 - three trilogies, nine movies total.

actor 3 - three trilogies, nine movies total.

so that's 27 movies total.

It's a tough one so I don't mind if someone comes up with a series of 4 movies instead of a trilogy, as in Die Hard, et.c. Any series with at least three movies will do...

Melion · 23-09-2009 10:19pm

Orlando Bloom was in LOTR and Pirates, dunno about a 3rd

Danbo! · 23-09-2009 10:22pm

Did this not so long ago in the pub and I cant remember any now, damn..

EDIT: Now that i think about it, we could only get a lot of actors that were in 2 trilogies, Michael J Fox, Hugo Weaving, Mike Myers, and Harrison Ford. I think there were a few more.

Jako8 · 23-09-2009 10:27pm

Christopher Lee - LOTR, The three musketeers, the four musketeers and return of the musketeers and ... something else that I cant remember.

I do remember being asked this question and someone saying Christopher Lee and those movies with some other ones that I now forget :rolleyes:

Edit: The third is the Fu Manchu movies. Thank you IMDB :P

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 23-09-2009 10:29pm

Harrison Ford(Star Wars, Indian Jones) and Matt Damon(Bourne, Oceans) both in two. Thought i had a cheeky third one for Matt Damon cause he was in Dogma and Chasing Amy(playing different characters) but not any other of the connected movies.

[edit] Wait, he also plays himself in Jay and Silent Bob strike back!

KevinVonSpiel · 23-09-2009 10:29pm

Lord Panic wrote: »

An old question came up today in work and we wrecked our heads trying to think of an answer...

Can anyone name three actors that have been in three trilogies each? As in...

actor 1 - three trilogies, nine movies total.

actor 2 - three trilogies, nine movies total.

actor 3 - three trilogies, nine movies total.

so that's 27 movies total.

It's a tough one so I don't mind if someone comes up with a series of 4 movies instead of a trilogy, as in Die Hard, et.c. Any series with at least three movies will do...

If only Clint would do a 3rd "Every which way..."

Black Lead · 23-09-2009 10:30pm

Tony Todd is the only one that i know of.

the whole year inn · 23-09-2009 10:32pm

jay and silent bob strike back maybe

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 23-09-2009 10:35pm

gob_smacked wrote: »

jay and silent bob strike back maybe

Just remembered that as you posted!:pac:

Lord Panic · 23-09-2009 10:37pm

A little googling and I found two...

Tony Todd

Final Destination Series,
Candyman Series,
Black Fox Series,

And Christopher Lee,

Fu Manchu 5 times,
The 3 Musketeers, 4 Musketeers and the Return of the Musketeers,
Lord of the Rings trilogy,

Harrison Ford is close,
Star Wars,
Indiana Jones,
But only two movies in the Jack Ryan Series, Clear & Present Danger and Patriot Games

One more person and I'll be happy enough!

--Hmm, waay behind you guys.

milanac · 23-09-2009 10:37pm

Closest I can get are:

Harrison ford: Star Wars and Indy Jones
Ian Mckellen: LOTR and X-men
Hugo Weaving: LOTR and Matrix trilogys
Mike Myers: Shrek and Austin Powers

Cant get a 3rd trilogy for any of above..

the whole year inn · 23-09-2009 10:39pm

rocky
rambo is another one but cant get any more

KevinVonSpiel · 23-09-2009 10:44pm

Jackie Chan or Jet Li...

Lucky Stars, Rush Hours, Police Stories - all Jackie Chan...

Oh yes... I am obnoxiously good...

komodosp · 23-09-2009 11:41pm

A little googling and I found two...

Cheat!!!

Jackie Chan is a good one I should have thought of that!

niallon · 24-09-2009 12:13am

Christopher Lee, Tony Todd and Anthony Hopkins?

floydmoon1 · 24-09-2009 12:21am

Frank Oz did Star Wars and Muppets Trilogy as well as Sesame Street movies which I think he has done more than 3

KevinVonSpiel · 24-09-2009 10:28am

floydmoon1 wrote: »

Frank Oz did Star Wars and Muppets Trilogy as well as Sesame Street movies which I think he has done more than 3

Stretching the meaning of the word 'actor', aren't you?

Professey Chin · 24-09-2009 4:00pm

Nobody said leading roles or same character so Bruce Campbell is close
3 Evil Deads,Turned up in the 3 spider-mans and 2 Maniac Cops
So close Bruce

KevinVonSpiel · 24-09-2009 6:38pm

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Nobody said leading roles or same character so Bruce Campbell is close
3 Evil Deads,Turned up in the 3 spider-mans and 2 Maniac Cops
So close Bruce

Maniac Cop 4: No which way about it...

Starring Clint Eastwood as a pensioner Philo Beddoe & Bruce Campbell as a now Commissioner Jack Forrest facing Cordell's Army of undead filth...

Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick

godspal · 24-09-2009 7:14pm

Mike Meyers is as i can get:
Shrek
Austin Powers
Waynes World.... Thats only 8.

murfie · 24-09-2009 7:31pm

Dont think i saw
Sir Ian McKellen
3 Xmen
3 Lord of the rings

Dunno about a 3rd set of 3

Is there an actual answer?

uncleoswald · 25-09-2009 12:41pm

John Rhys-Davies was in three Lord of the Rings, two Indys, and two Anacondas. So thats another fail then....

Christopher Lee did far more then three Dracula pictures and played Fu Manchu more then three times aswell. And obviously was in the three LOTR movies. Was also in three Star Wars movies if you count The Clone Wars (can't be any worse then the other prequels can it?) Was also set to be in the three Golden Compass films.

Warwick Davis has been in over three Harry Potters, lots of Leprechauns but only 2 Star Wars movies, but was in some of the spin offs if that counts?

niallon · 25-09-2009 1:21pm

EDIT: Got that one wrong!

floydmoon1 · 25-09-2009 2:02pm

There seems to be alot of uncertainty about all of this.

Maybe we should define the question e.g. some rules as in can it be voice-overs.Does it include spin offs.Does it matter if they play a different named charater but in same series. etc. etc.

Kess73 · 25-09-2009 2:25pm

Bruce Spence was in Three trilogies.

Mad Max
Star Wars
LOTR

Kess73 · 25-09-2009 2:27pm

Scratch that, I thought he was in more films than he actually was

DoctorGonzo08 · 30-09-2009 1:55pm

Mel Gibson
Mad Max
Lethal Weapon
.... and the Lethal Weapon Prequels: Passion, Braveheart and The Patriot:p

L31mr0d · 30-09-2009 2:04pm

Lord Panic wrote: »

But only two movies in the Jack Ryan Series, Clear & Present Danger and Patriot Games

Well if you rebrand those films as "Tom Clancy" you could throw in Air Force One

uncleoswald · 30-09-2009 2:31pm

L31mr0d wrote: »

Well if you rebrand those films as "Tom Clancy" you could throw in Air Force One

Wasn't James Earl Jones in all the Jack Ryan films? Maybe not the last one.

InisMor · 30-09-2009 8:16pm

Antony Hopkins and Michael J Fox???

BTTF for Fox (and Lloyd) but what other??

Hopkins only has one trilogy also

InisMor · 30-09-2009 8:17pm

uncleoswald wrote: »

Wasn't James Earl Jones in all the Jack Ryan films? Maybe not the last one.

Jones is in the Original Star Wars Trilogy too - thats only two trilogies also though

humanji · 30-09-2009 9:21pm

I think this is a trick question that's all about how it is originally phrased. It's an actor who's been in 3 sets of trilogies, but it doesn't say he has to be in all 3 films. If you go for the hard version, you won't find any major actors, but you'll get z-list celebrities and b-movie actors who've done loads of trilogies. And I can't imagine anyone expecting people to know a lot of z-list celebrities. The only one I know (and I think this is because someone pointed it out to me) is Tony Todd has been in 3 Final Destination films, 3 Candyman movies and 3 Black Fox movies.

KevinVonSpiel · 30-09-2009 9:36pm

humanji wrote: »

I think this is a trick question that's all about how it is originally phrased. It's an actor who's been in 3 sets of trilogies, but it doesn't say he has to be in all 3 films. If you go for the hard version, you won't find any major actors, but you'll get z-list celebrities and b-movie actors who've done loads of trilogies. And I can't imagine anyone expecting people to know a lot of z-list celebrities. The only one I know (and I think this is because someone pointed it out to me) is Tony Todd has been in 3 Final Destination films, 3 Candyman movies and 3 Black Fox movies.

We know for sure that Christopher Lee & Jackie Chan have done 3 sets of 3+film series, I've still not seen enough evidence of Tony Todd's 'three' Black Fox films...

Nichololas · 01-10-2009 10:20am

Hugo Weaving:

Elrond in all 3 LotR.
Agent Smith in all the Matrix films (Matrices?)
The voice of Metatron in both Transformers films, and presumably there'll be a 3rd film ..

And Sean Bean also nearly makes it;

Boromir in all 3 LotR.
Sharpe in x amount of Sharpe films..
In 2 of the Red Riding trilogy ..

Hyzepher · 01-10-2009 11:08am

Eddie Murphy must be close

Beverly Hill Cop
Shrek
Nutty Professor
Dr Dolittle

Also I would define it as being in a series of movies as the same character - that should eliminate some of the more 3rd rate actors who appear ina lot but as different characters. It might also eliminate Christoper Lee

humanji · 01-10-2009 11:44am

KevinVonSpiel wrote: »

We know for sure that Christopher Lee & Jackie Chan have done 3 sets of 3+film series, I've still not seen enough evidence of Tony Todd's 'three' Black Fox films...

Well, with Christopher Lee, aren't his Fu Manchu films like his Dracula films in that he plays the character, but the films aren't related? In fairness I haven't seen them all (one was enough) but that was the impression I got.

And aren't there only 2 Lucky stars films for Jackie Chan? And are we counting films that have gone over 3 episodes still as being trilogies? That seems a bit like moving the goal posts.

As for Tony Todd: Black Fox 1, Black Fox 2 and Black Fox 3. But they're all made for TV movies (and they're sh*te so should be discounted for that alone!)

KevinVonSpiel · 01-10-2009 12:08pm

humanji wrote: »

And aren't there only 2 Lucky stars films for Jackie Chan? And are we counting films that have gone over 3 episodes still as being trilogies? That seems a bit like moving the goal posts.

Jackie Chan was in Winners & Sinners (Chinese title translates as 'Five Lucky Stars'), My Lucky Stars ((amazing) Chinese title translates as 'Lucky Stars Superior Shine') & Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars (Chinese title translates as 'Summertime Lucky Stars')...

OP, iirc, stated film series (4 & over) were okay...

humanji · 01-10-2009 12:33pm

Ah right, it didn't realise that 5 Lucky Stars was part of that.

SarahBM · 01-10-2009 1:00pm

this is a tough one.
Ian McKellan in LOTR and Xmen was the first one that sprung to mind, and Hugo Weaving, for LORT and Xmen.
Is there an answer?

KevinVonSpiel · 01-10-2009 2:11pm

SarahBM wrote: »

this is a tough one.
Ian McKellan in LOTR and Xmen was the first one that sprung to mind, and Hugo Weaving, for LORT and Xmen.
Is there an answer?

Yes.

I couldn't resist writing this post. Obviously.

Neamhshuntasach · 01-10-2009 3:31pm

Antonio Banderas

El Mariachi trilogy
Spy Kids 1,2,3
Shrek 2, 3, 4 (when 4th is completely obviously)

KevinVonSpiel · 01-10-2009 3:41pm

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

Antonio Banderas

El Mariachi trilogy
Spy Kids 1,2,3
Shrek 2, 3, 4 (when 4th is completely obviously)

Nice one... right under the radar... & a good actor too.

JP Liz · 01-10-2009 4:02pm

Robert De Niro was in

Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers and now Little Fockers

and he was in The Godfather but only II so he dont count

Anakin.S · 20-10-2009 3:42pm

Neamhshuntasach wrote: »

Antonio Banderas

El Mariachi trilogy
Spy Kids 1,2,3
Shrek 2, 3, 4 (when 4th is completely obviously)

sorry but Antonio banderas is not in El Mariachi

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104815/

They changed the actor

OK..
Just got the first person in a trilogy of trilogies...... Stan Lee he has cameo roles in x-men, spiderman and hulk (granted the 1989 TV movie 'The trial of the incredible Hulk' is one)

And
If you count the ewok movies as star wars then Warwick Davis is in leprechaun, Harry Potter and star wars

KevinVonSpiel · 20-10-2009 5:07pm

Anakin.S wrote: »

sorry but Antonio banderas is not in El Mariachi

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104815/

They changed the actor

bummer... you're right...

OK..
Just got the first person in a trilogy of trilogies...... Stan Lee he has cameo roles in x-men, spiderman and hulk (granted the 1989 TV movie 'The trial of the incredible Hulk' is one)

in all three of the films of each trilogy?

And
If you count the ewok movies as star wars then Warwick Davis is in leprechaun, Harry Potter and star wars

that's some surprise you've pulled out of the hat..

...

Anakin.S · 05-11-2009 2:42pm

Stan Lee has a cameo roles in x-men, spiderman and hulk movies (Granted the 1989 TV movie 'The trial of the incredible Hulk' is one)

Warwick Davis is in leprechaun, Harry Potter and star wars (If you count the ewok movies as star wars)

Robert Wagner has been in Austin Powers, Hart to Hart (TV movies) and 3 Pink Panther movies

3 actors, 9 trilogies and 27 movies