10 Actors You Didn't Know Played The Same Character In Different Movies - Commenter Edition

10. Ben Stiller - Orderly Hal (Happy Gilmore & Hubie Halloween)

If you dared to watch Adam Sandler's most recent Netflix Original comedy Hubie Halloween, you probably caught the fleeting cameo from Ben Stiller at the start of the movie, where Stiller plays a mustachioed orderly at the local mental hospital who refers to himself as "Hal L."

Like practically every Sandler comedy, the film is so thoroughly jam-packed with cameos that Stiller's presence doesn't really stick out at all, unless you're a big fan of Sandler's classic 1996 star vehicle Happy Gilmore.

In that film, Stiller makes a small appearance as a mentally deranged orderly who works at the nursing home where Happy's (Sandler) grandma (Frances Bay) lives.

That orderly's name? You guessed it - Hal. The characters' appearances and mannerisms are similar enough that it's clear Stiller is straight-up reprising the role in Hubie Halloween rather than Sandler simply offering up a cutesy Easter egg. Yet if you haven't seen Happy Gilmore in quite some time, it's easily missed.

And like that, the Sandler Cinematic Universe was born.