Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:00:20 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
CC: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at verizon.net>,
 "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: I guess the Terminators finally got him
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 05/18/12 00:28, Samuel Lubell wrote:
> On 5/17/2012 11:08 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>> Only James Bond has been played by more actors.
>
> Keith, that's seven actors for John Connor, counting movies and tv.  I'm
> sure we can easily find many more characters with more than that:

I *think* Keith means in one set of movies, not over decades and
multiple studios, etc.
>
> Doctor Who is up to 11.
> How many Clark Kents (aka Superman), even excluding voice actors from
> cartoon versions? Not to mention his friends and foes. On TV - Superman,
> Lois&  Clark, Superboy, Smallville, Christopher Reeve in four films, the
> Superman Returns actor. the 1948 serial.  So that's at least seven, am I
> missing any? And by the end of the year there will be one more

I'm not sure - I think I have some vague memory of Superman radio shows.

> How many King Arthurs (and all the versions of his knights and ladies)?
> How many Robin Hoods?

There are, of course, only two: though we may despise his politics...
Errol Flynn. And Sean Connery, in Robin and Marian.

> How many George Washingtons, Abraham Lincoln, and other historical figures?

George Washington, also formerly the Captain of Babylon 5?

mark
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