Trivia--actors who play their parents in remakes

In the remake of Disney's "The Parent Trap", the woman who first played
the young finance came back to the remake and played the fiance's
mother.

Barry Margolin...

Not exactly the same, but in the theatrical version of "The Miracle
Worker" Patty Duke played Helen Keller, and then she played her teacher
Annie Sullivan in the TV movie remake.

Likewise, the first woman who played Lois Lane in the Superman TV
series came back to play Lois' mother in a later series (IIRC, "Lois &
Clark").

Anim8rFSK...

Phyllis Coates, and, yes, it was L&C.

The replacement Lois Lane played Lois' mother in the 1978 movie.

Bill Steele...

Actually that was the movie. Noel Neill, who was the *second* Lois in
the old TV series (but the first in two Columbia Superman serials)
played Lois's mother in the first Reeve movie, and Kirk Alyn, who played
Clark/Superman in the serials, was the father--he got cut out of the
first movie release but appears, sort of, in the "restored" version.

jayembee...

Actually, while what you say is true, the way hancock put it was
also true. Phyllis Coates, who was "the first woman who played
Lois Lane in the Superman TV series" played Lois's mother in at
least one episode of LOIS & CLARK.

I wonder how many examples of this exist where actors re-appeared in a
remake of a movie or TV show, playing perhaps a different generation or
even themselves over again. (I heard Al Lewis was in the Car 54 movie
but I never saw that.)

Anim8rFSK...

There's lots and lots of those.

Gene Barry and Ann Robinson as the grandparents in the dreadful
theatrical War of the Worlds.

Ann Robinson also came back as her original character in the TV series.

Ernest Borgnine played McHale in the McHale's Navy remake movie.

Arnold...

The Brady Bunch Movie- Florence Henderson played Carol Brady's mom.

Noel Neill (Lois Lane from the 1940s Superman serials and Lois #2 from the
old TV series) has a cameo in the extended version of the Chris Reeve
Superman movie as the mother of young Lois Lane.

Arnold Kim

jayembee...

Henry Morgan played his character of Bill Gannon from the late 60s
DRAGNET in the Ackroyd/Hanks film.

Henry Darrow played Don Diego in the early 80s Disney sitcom ZORRO
AND SON, and played Diego's father, Don Alejandro, in the 90s
Family Channel ZORRO.

Sometimes on TV actors will have a sly joke about a former role. On
"Step by Step", both parents made humorous subtle references to the
past roles, the father about oil, the mother about three's a crowd.

masonReloaded...

Annette O'Toole played Lana Lang in Superman 3 and now plays Ma Kent on
Smallville - not the same character but definitely in the same area.

Richard Roundtree played Shafts dad (or uncle? I forget) in the Samuel
L Jackson starring Shaft remake.

CCSBeyond...

Wasn't the Jackson Shaft movie supposed to be in continuity with the
previous Shaft movies (i.e. Roundtree was playing the original Shaft
and Jackson was playing Shaft's nephew, who also had the lastname
Shaft)?

CCSBeyond...

I don't think it was ever established conclusively that that was
the case, but it was certainly *my* interpretation. Like the
Ackroyd/Hanks DRAGNET, the SHAFT movie was really a sequel rather
than a remake.

Shaft).

PT...

Didn't Florence Henderson play her grandmother, or mother, in the Brady
Bunch Movie?

Bill Steele...

Whole other topic, but very common. In the first episode of Andromeda,
former Hercules Kevin Sorbo is greeted by a crew member with "We weren't
expecting a Greek God." Arriving at Stargate headquarters, Richard Dean
Anderson is told "We had to MacGyver the machine to make it work."

jayembee...

Actually, that was in the episode where O'Neil and Carter had been
"rerouted" to the second, supposedly-dormant gate in the Antarctic.
They dug out the DHD, and Carter said that she thought she might be
able to MacGyver it into working condition.

SoHillsGuy...

I don't remember the reference in the Antarctic episode and if it was
said there, it was the second time the joke was used. The first was
definitely in the series pilot episode.

Hunter Rose...

You are correct - in the series pilot Carter says it "took
years to MacGyver" the stargate. The reference from the Antarctic
episode was an outtake that did not appear in the episode.

mcardle...

At a convention in Melbourne she said she set it up deliberately, and told
the cameraman to keep filming.

Hunter Rose...

Point is, it wasn't scripted and did not appear in the episode
and a viewer wouldn't know about it unless they heard about or saw it
elsewhere.

My all time favorite was when Buster Crabbe did a guest shot on Buck
Rogers in the 25th Century as "Colonel Gordon." Talking to Buck on the
radio he says "I was doing this long before you were."

jayembee...

"...before you were born", which was assuredly accurate, as Buck
had to have been born after 1939.

hancock4...

I forgot an example that combined both:

In a "8 simple rules" episode, family father John Ritter took on Mr.
Roper's role (saying as he entered his in-laws apt "Gee, this looks
familiar", and his two daughters played Janet and Chrissy (doing a
great job, too). I wish I captured that on tape.

When Ritter passed on, they made a big deal about Three's Company, but
I liked his other TV works as well, including 8 simple rules and where
he was a landlord in a weird apt bldg.