10 More Actors You Didn't Know Played The Same Character In Different Movies

Though not completely against returning to a role within a long-running movie franchise, see in his triumphant comeback as the legendary Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit prequel trilogy, Ian Holm had largely steered clear of going back over old ground throughout a frankly absurdly varied big screen career.

However, away from stellar one and done's in the form of Alien's unsettling android Ash and athletics trainer Sam Massabini in Chariots of Fire, there is actually another character that the late force of nature found himself in the shoes of on multiple occasions in entirely different projects.

After playing the well known French political and military leader Napoléon Bonaparte in TV mini-series Napoleon and Love, Holm was once again drafted in to play the infamous figure for Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits flick. Not content with his time in the Napoleon driving seat, a final outing as the figure who dominated Europe for over a decade was realised with Alan Taylor's The Emperor's New Clothes shortly after the turn of the century.