a) Erich Kaestner's „Das doppelte Lottchen“ has been filmed surprisingly often in several countries. Several versions should be available on VHS and/or DVD. http://akas.imdb.com/Name?K%E4stner,+Erich b) JC Van Damme has made at least three movies where he plays himself twice (twins/clones) Replicant http://akas.imdb.com/Title?0238552 Double Impact http://akas.imdb.com/Title?0101764 Maximum Risk http://akas.imdb.com/Title?0117011 c) The Austin Powers films have Mike Myers in a variety of roles - he plays the shagadelic spy, the evil nemesis and a few other characters. d) The german comedian Otto Waalkes plays himself and his twin brother in „Otto der Ausserfriesische“ http://akas.imdb.com/Title?0098040 Helge Schneider, another peculiarly german comedian, apparently plays most of the roles in his trashy secret agent film „00 Schneider“ and his western persiflage „Texas – Doc Snyder“ http://akas.imdb.com/Name?Schneider,+Helge e) „Wanted“ has Austrian comedian Alfred Dorfer playing a doctor who retreats into a fantasy world where he's a Western hero... most of the characters he meets and/or shoots in the saloon/gunfight fantasy are the same persons he keeps meeting in real life. E.g. the „fat evil rich bastard and his whore“ in the western scenes are the same actors as the „fat evil psychiatrist and his nurse“ in the asylum. http://akas.imdb.com/Title?0214292 Available on VHS (PAL) and DVD at www.kabarett.at or www.hoanzl.at or [log in to unmask] (the film's distributor) f) In „Great Dictator“, Charles Chaplin plays both Adenoid Hinkel (the crazy dictator) and A Jewish Barber http://akas.imdb.com/Title?0032553 g) Lots of double roles in Peter Jackson's first film. Well, they had no money for actors, so.... Still, „Bad Taste“ is a great gore comedy :-) http://akas.imdb.com/Title?0092610 I tried to find a way of getting IMDB to list all films with a dual role, but couldn't get results even in advanced search mode. Maybe someone at IMDB wouzld be willing to list all films where the field „character name“ contains a „/“ (This / is the separator that IMDB uses, but which they won't let users search for) Regards, Dave Skreiner DVD-Home Mag ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html