When Unsolved Mysteries cast actors and actresses for their segments, I was sometimes blown away at the people they chose. Sometimes they looked nothing like the person they were portraying. And sometimes they almost looked like the person's own twin. I think these were some of the best...

The real person is on the left. The actor/actress is on the right.

CHARLES MORGAN:

http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM1.jpg http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM1b.jpg


CRYSTAL SPENCER:

http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM2.jpg http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM2b.jpg


CINDY JAMES:

http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM3.jpg http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM3b.jpg


RHONDA HINSON:

http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM4.jpg http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM4b.jpg

Can anyone think of other good casts?

Jim Burnside

Greg Webb

Tracy Wofford Bunn

Diane Harlin

Very good comparison's Dynoguy!

The mom in the Adam Hecht disappearance was portrayed by an actress who looked so much like her that I'm still not sure if that was an actor or Adam Hecht's mom recreating the scenes for UM.

This was a perfect cast:

LAURA BURBANK:

http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM5.jpg http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM5b.jpg

I loved it when UM got it really close! The Hecht case was actually very confounding, as it's hard to tell if that's the mom or an actress.

This was a perfect cast:

LAURA BURBANK:

http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM5.jpg http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad64/andy80_bucket/UM5b.jpg

Agreed totally.


I always thought the girl playing Kari Lynn Nixon could've been her twin. Turns out it was her own sister.

Mike Riemer's actor. Wow, pretty close.

The actress who played Dottie Caylor looked an awful lot like her.

And the girl they cast to play Colleen Ritter was such a convincing lookalike that I initially thought Colleen was playing herself and could not believe she was willing to act out the horrific re-enactment of the murder scene.

I thought the Bonnie Wilder casting was kind of accurate.

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I'm not sure there would be enough room since it's Bonnie Wilder.

*rimshot*

I'm not sure there would be enough room since it's Bonnie Wilder.

*rimshot*

Oh I don't know, lol

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/niFI-sxSdOw/hqdefault.jpg?feature=og

http://images.wikia.com/unsolvedmysteries/images/0/0f/Bonnie_wilder.jpg

Phillip Frazier-excellent casting, looked so much like him.

I'm not sure there would be enough room since it's Bonnie Wilder.

*rimshot*

Bazinga!

Agreed totally.


I always thought the girl playing Kari Lynn Nixon could've been her twin. Turns out it was her own sister.

It's so creepy how the actor and real person look like Laura Burbank.

It's so creepy how the actor and real person look like Laura Burbank.

Yes, I agree with you 100% there!

Jim Burnside

Greg Webb

I always thought they were the same guy when I was little!

Lizzie Borden kind of resembles The Trunchbull from Matlida. :lol:

http://www.nndb.com/people/969/000118615/lizzie-borden.jpg

http://hookedonhouses.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Miss-Trunchbull-Pam-Ferris-Matilda-Crunchem-Hall.jpg

I always thought the girl playing Kari Lynn Nixon could've been her twin. Turns out it was her own sister.

Wow, it didn't know that, but it explains a lot. Kari Lynn's parents actually play themselves in a re-enactment where they're out bowling with her and I kept thinking how uncomfortable it must have been for them to do a scene with an actress who was such a lookalike of their missing daughter. But it makes more sense now that I know it was her sister.

Jim Burnside

Greg Webb

I havent seen the segment in years but Burnside was the first to come to mind when reading the title of the thread.

Oh I don't know, lol

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/niFI-sxSdOw/hqdefault.jpg?feature=og

http://images.wikia.com/unsolvedmysteries/images/0/0f/Bonnie_wilder.jpg

They did a great job with Wilder.

Anyone have a pic of Matt orahoske?

Nvm found it.

Not an actor but a famous rock and roll legend kinda looks like Randall

Alex Cooper was another one.

They did a great job with Wilder.
I think Donald trump(he’s an actor as well) looks kind of like the real bonnie wilder. A much healthier version of corse ;)

Phillip Frazier-excellent casting, looked so much like him.

I recently rewatched this one and I think that has to be one of his brothers. The resemblance is just too strong.

Please PM me if you know how I can watch the Laura Burbank segment. I have not seen it in 30 years

Ugh. I hate how all my pictures have been pulled.

14 years of using photobucket.com and all of the sudden they want you to pay to have an account. :rolleyes: :mad:

Ugh. I hate how all my pictures have been pulled.

14 years of using photobucket.com and all of the sudden they want you to pay to have an account. :rolleyes: :mad:

yeah, tell me about it...pretty much renders the locations pic thread useless!

I thought jay Durham had a Richard petty thing going on.

Also keith warren looks very very much like Alex Rodriguez

They got a really good actress for Amelia Earhart, too. She did bear a resemblance to her facially.

Going to bump this tread go look at the Angela Hammond episode the girl who played looked very similar to her and was from the local area also when they show the woman playing Trudy Darby who was abducted from the gas station i could’ve sworn was her spitting image.

A few others i can think of

1. George Owens spot on

2. Oliver Munson spot on

3. Michaela Garetcht and her abductor spot on

4. Colleen Reed

5. Edward Bell