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Who are some actors/actresses, directors, and producers, that have worked together more than once?

Asked by Brian1946 (32638points) May 18th, 2011

In what movies have they worked together?

E.g., Johnny Depp and Tim Burton have done several films together.

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ANef_is_Enuf's avatar

Matt Damon & Ben Affleck. Good Will Hunting, Dogma… etc.

tinyfaery's avatar

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton
Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino

Vunessuh's avatar

Scorsese works quite a bit with Leonardo and De Niro.
He’s done Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino and a few others with Di Niro.
He’s done Shutter Island, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed etc. with Leonardo.

creative1's avatar

Julia Roberts and Richard Gere – Runaway Bride and Pretty Woman

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie – A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Black Adder, Jeeves and Wooster, hell, they even have their own Wikipedia page.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

Alfred Hitchcock was notorious for using the same actors/actresses multiple times in his films.

* 7 films: Clare Greet: Number 13 (1922), The Ring (1927), The Manxman (1929), Murder! (1930), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Sabotage (1936), Jamaica Inn (1939)
* 6 films: Leo G. Carroll: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Spellbound (1945), The Paradine Case (1947), Strangers on a Train (1951), and North By Northwest (1959)
* 4 films: Cary Grant: Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955), and North By Northwest (1959)
* 4 films: James Stewart: Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958)
* 4 films: Edmund Gwenn: The Skin Game (1931), Waltzes from Vienna (1934), Foreign Correspondent (1940), and The Trouble with Harry (1955)
* 3 films: Ingrid Bergman: Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), and Under Capricorn (1949)
* 3 films: Grace Kelly: Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955)
* 3 films: Basil Radford: Young and Innocent (1937), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Jamaica Inn (1939)
* 3 films: John Williams: The Paradine Case (1947), Dial M for Murder, (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955)
* 3 films: Patricia Hitchcock: Stage Fright (1950), Strangers on a Train (1951), Psycho (1960) His daughter
Source

There is also a slew of others, including screen writers and film crew members listed in the same source.

fundevogel's avatar

Heath Ledger & Terry Gilliam (The Grimm Brothers, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Jonathan Pryce & Terry Gilliam (The Grimm Brothers, Brazil)
Jeff Bridges & Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King & Tideland)
Danny Trejo & Robert Rodriquez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Machete, Spy Kids, From Dusk Til Dawn)
Mickey Rourke & Robert Rodriguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Sin City)
Cheech Marin & Robert Rodriguez (Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Machete)
Jessica Alba & Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Machete)
Harvey Keitel & Quentin Tarantino (From Dusk Til Dawn, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
Michael Madsen & Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill 1 & 2, Reservoir Dogs)

and so on and so forth

jonsblond's avatar

Christopher Guest- Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Parker Posey, Catherine O’Hara, Michael McKean

Movies- Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, Waiting For Guffman

Blueroses's avatar

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan

Christopher Guest and: Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Michael McKean, Jennifer Coolidge, Fred Willard, John Michael Higgins, Harry Shearer

Blueroses's avatar

@jonsblond Great minds, eh?

jonsblond's avatar

@Blueroses Best In Show is in the top 3 of my favorite movies of all time. =)

Kardamom's avatar

Woody Allen and Mia Farrow : In the 1980s and early ‘90s, Farrow’s relationship with director Woody Allen resulted in numerous film collaborations. She appeared in nearly all of Allen’s critically acclaimed films during this period, including leading roles in Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters (playing the principal title role), Radio Days and Alice (1990), again as the title character. Farrow also played Alura, mother of Kara (Helen Slater), in Supergirl (1984) and voiced the title role in the animated film The Last Unicorn (1982). She also narrated several of the animated Stories to Remember. This info is from Wikipedia.

Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer were in the movie The Sound of Music and the made for TV stage play adaptation of On Golden Pond

Robert Redford and Paul Newman were in The Great Gatsby and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Shirley Temple and Bill (Bojangles) Robinson danced together in The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Just Around the Corner.

Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman were in The Search for John Gissing and Truly, Madly, Deeply

Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson were in Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually

Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant were in Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually and An Awfully Big Adventure

Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins were in Remains of the Day and Howard’s End

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were in To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, The Big Sleep and Dark Passage.

Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau were in The Odd Couple, Grumpy Old Men and The Sunshine Boys

Blueroses's avatar

@jonsblond Mine too! I love all of Guest’s films except For Your Consideration That was disappointing.

LostInParadise's avatar

Steve Buscemi has been in a few Coen brothers films.

filmfann's avatar

John Wayne and John Ford did 24 films and 3 Television episodes together.
Some films: The Searchers, Stagecoach, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Long Voyage Home, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, the Quiet Man

Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa did 16 movies together.
Some films: Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Red Beard, Sanjuro, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo

aprilsimnel's avatar

Frances McDormand is in every Coen Brothers film (because she’s married to Joel).

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

Margaret Dumont was in quite a few Marx Brothers films as the female lead/Groucho’s “love” interest.

mazingerz88's avatar

Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington
Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe
Steven Spielberg and producer Kathleen Kennedy
Bill Paxton and James Cameron
M. Night Shyamalan and Bruce Willis
James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger
Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe
Harrison Ford and George Lucas
Ron Howard and his actor brother
Jack Nicholson and James L. Brooks
Gore Verbinsky and Johnny Depp

ddude1116's avatar

Michael Caine is in a bunch of Christopher Nolan films: Inception, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Batman Begins.

Jeff Bridges has also been in two Coen Brothers films: The Big Lebowski, and True Grit.

ddude1116's avatar

@Kardamom Paul Newman was in The Great Gatsby?

Blueroses's avatar

The Coen Bros. like John Goodman too: Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy,
The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Kardamom's avatar

@ddude1116 Good call!

No, I was thinking of The Sting. Not sure why I got those 2 films mixed up. LOL.

jonsblond's avatar

John Hughes- John Candy in The Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck and Plains, Trains and Automobiles
John Hughes- Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club
John Hughes- Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles and Weird Science.

chyna's avatar

Tidbit you may or may not know. Ron Howard (Opie Taylor) hires his real life brother
Clint Howard for several of his movies. Clint Howard

Kardamom's avatar

I think Bill Nighy has been in at least 2 movies with Hugh Grant.

Eliza Dushku and Alan Rickman were in Bottle Shock and Nobel Son.

ddude1116's avatar

@Kardamom It happens, they’re both fantastic movies.

rpm_pseud0name's avatar

Here is an utterly genius & beautiful infographic that shows the connections between all the Coen brothers films & characters. (large picture, may take a moment to load)

MRSHINYSHOES's avatar

Actress Setsuko Hara and actor Chishu Ryu have worked with film director Ozu Yasujiro on many films——including “Late Spring”, “Tokyo Story”, “Early Summer” and “Late Autumn”.

Haleth's avatar

Christopher Nolan is also casting a bunch of people from Inception in The Dark Knight Rises. Marion Cotilliard, Tom Hardy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have all been cast.

Justin Lin directed two Fast and the Furious movies, but his first film was Better Luck Tomorrow, a drama about overachieving high school students who fall into a life of crime (with a young John Cho as the antagonist!) I heard that he sees his later movies as sequels, what happened to the characters from Better Luck Tomorrow after they left school. He’s cast actors from that movie in Annapolis and Fast and the Furious.

Wong Kar-Wai, my favorite director, uses the same actors so often that his wikipedia page has a spreadsheet.

Ajulutsikael's avatar

Joss Whedon and all the actors that have ever appeared on his shows or movies. Not to mention that all those actors will also appear on each other’s tv shows and movies. Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanz, Alan Tudyz, Gina Torres, Eliza Dushku, Summer Glau, Adam Baldwin and the list goes on.

Pele's avatar

Bill Murray and director Wes Anderson has worked together many times. The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore, The Royal Tennebaums, The Life Aquatic. Wes Anderson has worked with Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson alot as well Angelica Houston and Jason Schwartzman.

ucme's avatar

I more or less missed this question,but here are a few notables I remember.

John Carpenter/Kurt Russell : The Thing, Escape From New York, Big Trouble In Little China
Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon : Some Like it Hot, The Front Page, The Apartment…..etc
David Lean/Alec Guiness : Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Oliver Twist…..etc
Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder : Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Producers
Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe : Gladiator, American Gangster, Body of Lies…..etc

_zen_'s avatar

Spielberg directed Cruise in 2002 Minority Report and then 2005 War of the Worlds.

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

Frank Capra and Jean Arthur.

aprilsimnel's avatar

Preston Sturges did 3 movies each with Joel McCrea and Rudy Vallee (but not always the same films). Preston had a stable of “Hey, it’s that guy from…” character actors in all his movies, like a stock company. I think the Coens borrowed a bit of that mentality from him, along with a film title.

Blueroses's avatar

@aprilsimnel How did you get the words “film title” to show up in red without being a link?

aprilsimnel's avatar

Weird!
I don’t know!
It linked perfectly well when I did the thing!

Or maybe it didn’t.

Blueroses's avatar

It’s pretty cool. I think you should say you did it on purpose

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