Actors appearing in their own remakes

[LaurenB]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 8:10am

I just saw Holiday Inn on TV with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, and was always intrigued that he remade it years later with Danny Kaye in White Christmas.

I was trying to think of other actors who were involved with their own remakes, and I could only think of Sean Connery who did Thunderball, and then the remake called Never Say Never Again.

Are there any other examples?

Updated On: 12/14/05 at 08:10 AM

[cookie2]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 8:46am

Burt Reynolds was in the Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 9:52am

White Christmas is not really a remake of Holiday Inn. It was just an excuse to use the title song that was such a hit for Bing years earlier to help boost his waning career and make a few bucks. It helped for a bit, but then moved into TV where his Christmas specials aired for years. But White Christmas and Holiday Inn are entirely different films.

[Jon]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 9:52am

Not the same thing, but David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser did a cameo in the movie version of STASKY AND HUTCH.

It would have been nice to see Gene Wilder and Kenneth Mars in cameos in THE PRODUCERS, but, no.

[DG]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 9:59am

She's playing a different role, but Carol Burnett in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS comes to mind.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:08am

This doesn't exactly count, but didn't Chita Rivera have a cameo in Chicago?

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:11am

She's playing a different role, but Carol Burnett in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS comes to mind.

Carol did do a remake of her own role in this same piece. This is the 3rd version.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 10:54am

In 1943, Betty Grable starred with George Montgomery, Ceasar Romero and Phil Silvers in the musical CONEY ISLAND about two rival side show operators fighting over the same girl in Coney Island c. 1890. She re-made the film (with a new score and racier screenplay) in 1950 as WABASH AVENUE, where Victor Mature and Phil Harris played rival Chicago side-show operators c. 1893.

Updated On: 12/14/05 at 10:54 AM

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/14/05 at 1:01pm

In 2004, Dawn of the Dead had three cameos from the original 1978 film.