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Double Trouble in The Darkside

posted 7 years ago by soggybottom (127)
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As you binge-watch this series, do you ever notice that the same actors pop up from time to time?

Here's a list of those actors and their multiple roles...

Ed French: The Devil (Trick or Treat 0100) & The Vampire (The Circus 0301)

Vic Tayback: Alan Coombs (The New Man 0101) & Tippy Ryan (Basher Malone 0420)

Michael Freeman: Richards (I'll Give You a Million 0102) & Harry Guilford's voice (Printer's Devil 0216)

Bradley Fisher: The Devil (I'll Give You a Million 0102) & Nicky (No Strings 0405)

Catherine Battistone: Maid Jenny's voice (I'll Give You a Million 0102) & Phone-voice (All a Clone by the Telephone 0111) & Radio-Show-Hostess-voice (Bigalow's Last Smoke 0121) & Phone-voice (Dream Girl 0214) & Secretary Ms. Garcia's voice (Printer's Devil 0216) & Margery Bender (The Bitterest Pill 0303) & Phone-voice (Sorry Right Number 0409) & Pear-voice (Love Hungry 0411)

Neil Kinsella: Delivery Man (Mookie & Pookie 0105) & Sid (Beetles 0401) & Voice-Over (Love Hungry 0411) {Not sure if he's the voice of the apple or the banana or the roast in the fridge or the caller at the beginning--Could even be all-4 as he's the only male-voice listed in the credits}

Fritz Weaver: Dr. Fenner (Inside the Closet 0107) & Sir Edmund Halley (Comet Watch 0213)

Karen Shallo: Lina Hagstrom (Word Processor of the Gods 0108) & Caller's voice (The Devil's Advocate 0207) & Radio-voice (The Enormous Radio 0322)

Tom Newman: Quentin Karp (All a Clone by the Telephone 0111) & Beezlebub (The Yattering & Jack 0407)

John Rothman: Love-Interest at the end (The Tear Collector 0116) & Jim (The Enormous Radio 0322)

Therese Pare: Cathy Osborne (The Madness Room 0117) & Helen Hogan (Baker's Dozen 0309)

John Marzilli: The Carny (Levitation 0119) & Gad's voice (Trouble with Mary Jane 0209) & Officer Kopec (The Bitterest Pill 0303) & Motu's voice (No Strings 0405)

[–] soggybottom (127) 7 years ago

Apparently, these posts have size-limits, so here are the rest...

Philip Roth: Sam Larchmont's voice (It All Comes Out in the Wash 0120) & Wilson Farber (The Satanic Piano 0206)

Howard Dayton: Matthews' voice (Bigalow's Last Smoke 0121) & Salesman (Black Widows 0306)

Kate McGregor-Stewart: May Rollins (Grandma's Last Wish 0122) & Charlene Ames (Comet Watch 0213)

Patrick Farrelly: Caller's voice (The Devil's Advocate 0207) & Sheriff (The Old Soft Shoe 0218)

Carolyn Seymour: Aisha Candisha's voice (Trouble with Mary Jane 0209) & Andrea Caldwell (Dream Girl 0214)

Paula Trueman: Aunt Teresa (Monsters in My Room 0212) & Great-Grandma (The Cutty Black Sow 0414)

Larry Manetti: Junior Harmon (Printer's Devil 0216) & Henry Hogan (Baker's Dozen 0309)

Harsh Nayyar: Edmund Alcott (Strange Love 0221) & Ram (My Own Place 0315)

Richard Kuhlman: Jonathan Reed (The Unhappy Medium 0222) & Mark (Going Native 0417)

And there you have it. There are 21 actors with multiple roles. How many did you already know of before reading this? I only knew of a couple.

I'd say the most-interesting one is Catherine Battistone who was in 8 episodes, but we only get to see her face in 1 (We just hear her voice in the rest).