Actors playing opposing characters

JesusFreak777 · Post by **JesusFreak777** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:41 pm

How many actors have played opposing characters? who are the actors and the characters they have played?
Walker Edmiston (sp) is one. he has Tom Riley and Bart Rathbone.

Who else?

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:01 pm

One might consider Earl Boen as an actor playing opposing characters. Ronald Edwin Blackgaard and Regis Blackgaard don't see eye-to-eye . . . and they certainly don't possess the same qualities as the other.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:04 pm

As much as I hate to bring it up, Steve Burns, playing Robert Mitchell and Rodney Rathbone.

-Jonathan

Eugene Blackgaard · Post by **Eugene Blackgaard** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:00 pm

Ronald Edwin Blackgaard?

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:37 am

Eugene Blackgaard wrote:Ronald Edwin Blackgaard?

What about it? He prefers to go by Edwin.

Did Connie talk to Peter Holt?
I can't verify this but I think Chris may have talked to herself in a wraparound.

Townsend Coleman has talked with himself I believe. As Jason and another guy in the Novacom saga.

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:09 am

Chandler wrote:
Eugene Blackgaard wrote:Ronald Edwin Blackgaard?
What about it? He prefers to go by Edwin.

Chandler beat me to the punch. Ronald would be Edwin's first name . . . of course, no one refers to him by that name. Except maybe for his mommy.

Chandler wrote:Did Connie talk to Peter Holt?

Which episode would that be in? I noticed she sometimes played Peter Holt, but not all the time. The only episode I can remember her playing Peter Holt was in "Have You No Selpurks?" But I don't think Connie and Peter were ever in the same scene.

Chandler wrote:I can't verify this but I think Chris may have talked to herself in a wraparound. Townsend Coleman has talked with himself I believe. As Jason and another guy in the Novacom saga.

I don't remember any of those.

JesusFreak777 · Post by **JesusFreak777** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:44 pm

Chandler wrote:
Did Connie talk to Peter Holt?

Which episode would that be in? I noticed she sometimes played Peter Holt, but not all the time. The only episode I can remember her playing Peter Holt was in "Have You No Selpurks?" But I don't think Connie and Peter were ever in the same scene.

didn't she talk to him in "A" is for attitude? or is that a different character?

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 1:28 pm

In "A Is For Attitude," Connie did talk to Peter Holt. However, I think a different actor voiced Peter in that particular episode.

. . . but I could be wrong.

Post by **Catspaw** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:41 pm

Jason talked to the cable guy in The Black Veil, and they were both played by Townsend Coleman. I can't remember the guy's name.

I guess Katrina Shanks and Doris Rathbone could be considered opposing characters. They aren't direct rivals, but they certainly are very different, and Pamela Hayden did both those voices. They never talk to each other, thatI can remember, though.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:48 pm

Actually, they were never in the same episode.

-Jonathan

Post by **Catspaw** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:54 pm

I never said that they were in the same episode. I interpreted "opposing characters" to mean characters played by the same actor who are very different, not "opposing" like facing off against each other. Maybe that was a wrong interpretation.

JesusFreak777 · Post by **JesusFreak777** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:57 pm

actually I did mean facing off so to speak...but it could be taken both ways...there are just more actors/characters that would apply in that sense.

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:29 am

Trent DeWhite wrote:
Chandler wrote:Did Connie talk to Peter Holt?
Which episode would that be in? I noticed she sometimes played Peter Holt, but not all the time. The only episode I can remember her playing Peter Holt was in "Have You No Selpurks?" But I don't think Connie and Peter were ever in the same scene.

He's also in "An Act of Mercy" and "Isaac the Courageous."

Trent DeWhite wrote:In "A Is For Attitude," Connie did talk to Peter Holt. However, I think a different actor voiced Peter in that particular episode.

. . . but I could be wrong.

Definitely a different actor... but I don't think it's even supposed to be the same person. Early AIO had a lot of name repeats... there are so many duplicate names... Freddy, Billy, Jimmy... there's even more than one Donna, Rodney, and Eugene.

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:46 am

Chandler wrote:Definitely a different actor... but I don't think it's even supposed to be the same person. Early AIO had a lot of name repeats... there are so many duplicate names... Freddy, Billy, Jimmy... there's even more than one Donna, Rodney, and Eugene.

Are we talking different voice actors for the aforementioned characters . . . or different character altogether?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:04 pm

To my knowledge (with help from aiohq) there is only one Donna. Unless I missed something. We do indeed have two Eugenes: Eugene Meltsner, and Eugene (Mugsy) Mumford from VBS Blues. We also have two Rodneys: Rodney (no last name) from Thank You, God and Rodney Rathbone.

We have 8 Fred's, 18 Bills/Billy/Billie, and 7 Jim/Jimmys. In the case of these names, they haven't happened in just the early years, but over the course of all 18 years.

As for the Holt's, we have a Robb Holt in ep 23, The Quality of Mercy, and a Peter Holt in the remake of that episode, An Act of Mercy. Both boys played the same role. There is not Holt in Isaac the Courageous.

-Jonathan

Shadowpaw · Post by **Shadowpaw** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:07 pm

Trent DeWhite wrote:In "A Is For Attitude," Connie did talk to Peter Holt. However, I think a different actor voiced Peter in that particular episode.

. . . but I could be wrong.

She spoke with Peter Dillon in that episode.

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:54 pm

Jonathan wrote:To my knowledge (with help from aiohq) there is only one Donna. Unless I missed something. We do indeed have two Eugenes: Eugene Meltsner, and Eugene (Mugsy) Mumford from VBS Blues. We also have two Rodneys: Rodney (no last name) from Thank You, God and Rodney Rathbone.

You don't hear her but Connie's friend mentioned a "Donna" in stormy weather. There's also another Dale mentioned in that show (and that's later the name used for Liz's father).

Jonathan wrote:We have 8 Fred's, 18 Bills/Billy/Billie, and 7 Jim/Jimmys. In the case of these names, they haven't happened in just the early years, but over the course of all 18 years.

Early on they were more commonly used.

Jonathan wrote:As for the Holt's, we have a Robb Holt in ep 23, The Quality of Mercy, and a Peter Holt in the remake of that episode, An Act of Mercy. Both boys played the same role. There is not Holt in Isaac the Courageous.

Maybe I named the wrong show then.

I thought it was Peter Holt on that show where Isaac nearly joined the Bones of Rath and then someone fell through the ice and Isaac had to rescue him...

Trent DeWhite · Post by **Trent DeWhite** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:49 pm

Yeah, it was definitely a Peter who fell through the ice in "Isaac the Courageous.". I can still hear Lucy's hoarse cry, "Peter! Get off the ice!" I guess it must've been Peter Dillon.

Shadowpaw · Post by **Shadowpaw** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:57 pm

To clear things up for everyone...

Peter Holt (Katie Leigh) appeared in:

115: An Act of Mercy
127: Have You No Selpurcs

Peter Dillon (Frank Moody) appeared in:

108: Isaac the Courageous
110: A...is for Attitude

To keep on topic, there was a brief moment in "Break a Leg" where the doctor was speaking with Walter Shakespeare, both of which were played by Corey Burton.

AIOfan11 · Post by **AIOfan11** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:10 pm

I don't know who plays Mitch, but in "Broken Window" Rodney brings Mitch to the stand as a witness, and the actor who plays Mitch also plays Rodney.