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bip05
07-09-2017, 05:58 PM
I just started watching the Charles Lazarus segment from S6.

The lady working in the "sundry items" store grabbed my attention (at 34:30). She seemed familiar, and then it hit me. SHE'S MYRNA! One of the people duped by Gertrude Pruitt.

Totally the same lady. Has this ever happened with re-enactment actors??

Check it out for yourselves:

S2 EP17 - FRAUD - Gertrude Pruitt
S6 EP18 - LOST HEIRS - Charles Lazarus

bip05
07-28-2017, 04:35 PM
Well, I know this doesn't seem to be a hot-button issue, but I just discovered another one! :)

The actress who played Wendy Camp in S6 E5 is the same actress who plays Leila Stallings in S7 E11, the "School Bus family".

I just think this is the funniest thing ever. Would love to know what you guys think, and if there are more double-castings.

zack007attack
07-29-2017, 12:38 AM
I brought this up in another thread but the hitchhiker from the Phillip Fraser segment and Allen Feingold from the Joseph Prushinowski segment appeared to be the same actor.

bip05
07-29-2017, 12:50 AM
I brought this up in another thread but the hitchhiker from the Phillip Fraser segment and Allen Feingold from the Joseph Prushinowski segment appeared to be the same actor.

I think you're right! He did a great job with the Yiddish voice in the as Feingold, but I have a feeling it's the same guy.

dynoguy88
07-29-2017, 09:02 AM
Well, I know this doesn't seem to be a hot-button issue, but I just discovered another one! :)

The actress who played Wendy Camp in S6 E5 is the same actress who plays Leila Stallings in S7 E11, the "School Bus family".

I just noticed that yesterday. It made me wonder, since both cases happened in Oklahoma, if she was a local to the area. Maybe when UM returned to the state to film the Stallings case, they just asked the actress to appear again.

sdb4884
07-29-2017, 10:03 AM
The actor who portrayed Bradford Bishop also played a role in the Kurt Boridan Vietnam Vet segment.

JM
07-30-2017, 01:51 AM
The actor who portrayed Bradford Bishop also played a role in the Kurt Boridan Vietnam Vet segment.

Good catch, I just noticed this myself.

Diane Borton and Mary Gillespie are seemingly were played by the same actress, I think?

Different color hair, to be certain, but wigs are pretty standard for these types of segments I presume?

MegtheEgg86
07-30-2017, 05:46 AM
The Boston mall rapist and the hunter who finds Ethel Kidd is one that immediately comes to mind.

The "crazy from Detroit" in the Kurt Sova segment and the Blind River rest stop killer is another.

I think the actress who portrayed the "real" Bonnie Wilder also provided some of those great voiceovers in the Gail Delano and Audrey Moate segments.

Hops3098
07-31-2017, 01:20 PM
My favorite example of this is the actor who played the flamboyant fraudster Todd Mueller.

He was also in the C.W. Roddy segment, playing one of the gangsters that was terrorizing her neighborhood

He also played the suspect known as "Larry Monroe" in the Donald Smith segment

"Anybody wanna fight in here?! I can whip any one of you" :crazy:

DazzlerSparkler
08-01-2017, 12:59 AM
The Boston mall rapist and the hunter who finds Ethel Kidd is one that immediately comes to mind.

The "crazy from Detroit" in the Kurt Sova segment and the Blind River rest stop killer is another.

I think the actress who portrayed the "real" Bonnie Wilder also provided some of those great voiceovers in the Gail Delano and Audrey Moate segments.


Now I wonder who the BRRS killer actors l is

ddelta
08-02-2017, 01:32 PM
I am positive that the road rage shooter in the Dick Hansen case (49er Hugs Case) is the same actor who played the shooter in another road rage case...I just cant' remember if it was David Hurley (Young Dad going to Boy Scout Camp that got back home and told his wife details before he died) or the Rich Aderson case where he was shot and killed by someone on a highway in NY. It was weird too because both composite sketches looked alike...always wondered if cases might be connected even if far away.

RobinW
08-16-2017, 03:15 PM
Recently re-watched the Bill Henderson segment. I'm pretty certain that one of the hitchhikers was played by the same actor who played Donny Hansen.

drtom1966
08-18-2017, 09:30 PM
The actor who played the part of Don Dixon in the Eric Tamiyasu segment is also the campus police officer and creepy landlord in the Brook Baker segment, as well as the police officer who receives the anonymous letter regarding the location of the skull in the Linda Sherman segment! One wonders if he is a relative of either Cosgrove or Meurer! :D

WishfulDreamer
08-19-2017, 12:44 AM
The actor who played the part of Don Dixon in the Eric Tamiyasu segment is also the campus police officer and creepy landlord in the Brook Baker segment, as well as the police officer who receives the anonymous letter regarding the location of the skull in the Linda Sherman segment! One wonders if he is a relative of either Cosgrove or Meurer! :D
1) Your signature made me laugh so hard.

2) Good eye! That landlord bit with him coming in while she was in the shower scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it. I can't believe I didn't realize it was the same actor who spouted, "I didn't see any exit wounds!"

bip05
08-19-2017, 01:13 AM
1) Your signature made me laugh so hard.

2) Good eye! That landlord bit with him coming in while she was in the shower scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it. I can't believe I didn't realize it was the same actor who spouted, "I didn't see any exit wounds!"

Ditto on the signature. Is there a "best of" thread on this forum??? there should be

drtom1966
08-19-2017, 03:21 PM
Your signature made me laugh so hard.

Many thanks! That scene is one of my all-time favorites, even though it's not one of my favorite segments. I guess Catchings died before it was determined that the man "he knew" was involved in the death of Sherry Eyerly, the hapless, poor, troubled Darrell J. Wilson, actually had nothing to do with it.

I can't believe I didn't realize it was the same actor who spouted, "I didn't see any exit wounds!"

In my opinion, Don Dixon ranks right up there with Bob Bean as one of the most annoying human beings ever interviewed on "Unsolved Mysteries." Both of them are humorless, relentless, self-important pot-stirrers, attention seekers, and drama kings. In the immortal words of Eric Smith, Eric Tamiyasu's friend, "Don lives in a fantasy world."

unsolved243
12-26-2017, 02:19 PM
The actress that played Jesslyn Rich also played Dale William's wife Diane.

I'm 99% sure the actor who played Carlos Berdeja (killer cook) also played Arthur Lopez Jr.'s father Arturo.

ramirez412001
12-27-2017, 07:00 AM
The actor who played Ernest Acosta in the Audrey Moate segment is the same actor who played the father of Carl Weiss in the Huey Long segment during the dinner scene.

LooksLikeCRicci
12-28-2017, 12:56 PM
The actor who played Ernest Acosta in the Audrey Moate segment is the same actor who played the father of Carl Weiss in the Huey Long segment during the dinner scene.

Good catch! Welcome! :wave:

ontarioboi
12-28-2017, 02:00 PM
the actor who played adam hecht also played the friend who took a punch in the segment about that guy who got lost in a dessert.

WishfulDreamer
12-28-2017, 03:19 PM
I'm sure it's been mentioned in the other thread, but the actress who played Jane Boroski (pregnant survivor victim stabbed while pulled over to get a drink), also played the nurse victim in the Boston Strip Mall Attacker in addition to Doreen Marfeo (and I think possibly Lulu Corshene in the Rick McCue segment, but it's been a long time since I've watched so I could be mistaken).

Janel "Jaycee" Miller
12-28-2017, 09:24 PM
I am not 100% sure on this one (maybe someone can confirm?) But the person who played Pearl's mother in the Patience Worth segment looks a d sounds a lot like the same woman who played John Sohus' mother. Any thoughts?

Jon
01-03-2018, 11:05 PM
I am not 100% sure on this one (maybe someone can confirm?) But the person who played Pearl's mother in the Patience Worth segment looks a d sounds a lot like the same woman who played John Sohus' mother. Any thoughts?

Absolutely. I just watched both segments. It's the same actress

brianh333
01-04-2018, 02:05 AM
My favorite example of this is the actor who played the flamboyant fraudster Todd Mueller.

He was also in the C.W. Roddy segment, playing one of the gangsters that was terrorizing her neighborhood

He also played the suspect known as "Larry Monroe" in the Donald Smith segment

"Anybody wanna fight in here?! I can whip any one of you" :crazy:

This was gonna be my contribution. I didn't remember him from the Roddy segment, but that's absolutely the same guy playing Mueller, and "Larry Monroe".

Any idea what his name is? I always wondered if he parlayed his two (or three, apparently) UM spots into any other movie / TV / late night infomercial gigs.

Janel "Jaycee" Miller
01-04-2018, 07:49 PM
Absolutely. I just watched both segments. It's the same actress

Thanks for getting back to me.

ramirez412001
03-18-2018, 07:51 PM
The actress who played the first Dr. Kenneth Frank rape victim is the same actress who plays Christie Mutzfield in the Todd Kelly/ Mafuz Huq lover's-triangle episode.

I can't be sure, but she also looks awfully similar to the witness in the Richard Bocklege segment who witnessed the shooting re-enactment. (She turned around quickly, then dove out of sight)

Pseudononymous
03-21-2018, 12:45 AM
Pretty sure Moss Beach Ghost lady was also Isabella Kramer in the Haunted Mann House segment

WishfulDreamer
03-21-2018, 01:20 AM
John Grundhofer and the indignant doctor in the Jeanine Price segment are played by the same actor.

Deputy Elder (shot at by Stephen Anderson) and the police offer friend of David Kemp's victims are played by the same actor.

ontarioboi
03-21-2018, 12:22 PM
the actor who played charles southern and oliver munson is the same guy....

the actor who played brad bishop is also the same actor who played the father in the segment of the viet nam soldier who they had a picture of and can not identify. He's in the scene at the morgue where they see the body.

WishfulDreamer
03-21-2018, 09:36 PM
the actor who played brad bishop is also the same actor who played the father in the segment of the viet nam soldier who they had a picture of and can not identify. He's in the scene at the morgue where they see the body.
He's in the Curt Borton segment, too. "What you did was reaaaaaaaaaallly stupid"

MegtheEgg86
03-23-2018, 11:13 AM
I can't be sure, but she also looks awfully similar to the witness in the Richard Bocklege segment who witnessed the shooting re-enactment. (She turned around quickly, then dove out of sight)

I've noticed this before, too. I think it's the same actress.

DALLASTEXAN!!
01-17-2019, 07:30 PM
the actor who played adam hecht also played the friend who took a punch in the segment about that guy who got lost in a dessert.
bumped this because of todd mueller...finally found it again on Amazon been relooking for it for a long time. I love Todd Mueller's segment. I have enjoyed reading through the whole thread.

I never would have noticed the Adam Hecht/David Stone connection. he does look like him. some of the things that are said in that segment are beyond strange. regarding the punching scene the other friend "John Duffus" quotes that David Stone "hit him 20-25 times and didn't really hurt him but he said he felt he needed to that"

all that while saved by the bell fight scene music is playing in the background.

yellowVWchase
01-18-2019, 05:15 PM
The little old fellow who plays Brushy Bill in the Billy the Kid segment is also the same actor who played the little old fellow who built the circular staircase to the choir loft for the nuns. Great casting, the guy has a great look and is a natural.

Guardian
01-18-2019, 06:18 PM
The little old fellow who plays Brushy Bill in the Billy the Kid segment is also the same actor who played the little old fellow who built the circular staircase to the choir loft for the nuns. Great casting, the guy has a great look and is a natural.

Was just about to mention that one lol

WishfulDreamer
01-19-2019, 12:35 AM
Several of the child actors are used in multiple segments. There's a noticeable one in the first season that I can't recall right now, but one other notable case is the little girl in the Maria Hernandez and Father D'Orio cases are one and the same.

MegtheEgg86
01-19-2019, 06:59 PM
Several of the child actors are used in multiple segments. There's a noticeable one in the first season that I can't recall right now, but one other notable case is the little girl in the Maria Hernandez and Father D'Orio cases are one and the same.

I feel like the little girl who played Nicole Laferte also portrayed Crystal Riemer. If not, they sure look an awful lot alike.

WishfulDreamer
01-19-2019, 11:08 PM
I feel like the little girl who played Nicole Laferte also portrayed Crystal Riemer. If not, they sure look an awful lot alike.
Good eye! I'm pretty sure you're correct about this.

Also, just had my memory jogged about the first season connections. I am pretty sure the little girl in the Philip Pelletier segment also reappears in the segment about Ruby Bradford several seasons later, and is shown when the family is trying to survive a tornado. But again, this could just be that the actresses look similar.

unsolved243
01-21-2019, 02:55 PM
Dennis North, the actor who played Jerry "Circlestansive Evidence" Strickland also played Robert Miller (his daughter, a deaf woman named Patty English, was searching for him).

schmave
01-21-2019, 06:29 PM
He's in the Curt Borton segment, too. "What you did was reaaaaaaaaaallly stupid"

I used to think that was a young Tony Goldwyn. There's certainly a strong resemblance.

WishfulDreamer
01-21-2019, 11:16 PM
Dennis North, the actor who played Jerry "Circlestansive Evidence" Strickland also played Robert Miller (his daughter, a deaf woman named Patty English, was searching for him).

You just blew my mind. It must have been the 'stache keeping me from realizing it was the same guy. :lol:

WishfulDreamer
05-18-2021, 03:05 PM
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I feel like the actress who played Colette MacDonald also played Barbara Piotrowski in the Richard Minns segment.Maybe they just looked similar, though.

I think I mentioned this before, but the same little girl is in the Father Diorio and Rosa Hernandez segments.

WishfulDreamer
05-21-2021, 07:36 PM
When Anton Kline goes to Crystal Spencer's workplace to look for her, the coworker he speaks to is none other than the same actress who played Sally Gerrity (aka the actress who goes "Sal, Sally? That's neat!")

Jon
06-01-2021, 04:15 PM
Tim Barry and Paul Stamper?

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sdb4884
06-08-2021, 10:51 AM
The actor who played John Grundhoffer played a Doctor in the Etta Smith segment S07 E13 on the Amazon episodes.

bell83
06-08-2021, 01:53 PM
The little old fellow who plays Brushy Bill in the Billy the Kid segment is also the same actor who played the little old fellow who built the circular staircase to the choir loft for the nuns. Great casting, the guy has a great look and is a natural.

Hot take: Billy the Kid built the spiral staircase for the nuns.

Jon
06-08-2021, 03:35 PM
Hot take: Billy the Kid built the spiral staircase for the nuns.

Which reveals that you think Brushy Bill Roberts and Billy the Kid are the same person...That is a hot take! :D

bell83
06-08-2021, 03:48 PM
Which reveals that you think Brushy Bill Roberts and Billy the Kid are the same person...That is a hot take! :D

Come on, it was obvious that old man was Billy the Kid, and the New Mexico governor wouldn't give him a pardon because he was best friends with Pat Garrett. It's kind of like how Ford Frick wouldn't give Roger Maris the single season home run record because he was friends with Babe Ruth. Everyone knows that :happyface

PortoMarco
06-09-2021, 08:22 AM
A bit off tangent, to me the best acting job is done by the Jim Burnside guy. Man, what great casting that was. He looked, sounded, and acted like a brazen psychopath.

mozartpc27
06-11-2021, 08:11 AM
Great thread! I never caught any of these!

Montanacool360
07-13-2021, 02:17 PM
Anyone know who played the abductor in the Angela Hammond segment? I read online the girl who played Angela was a woman name Tammy Stevens but anyone know who played the abductor?

Corky Kneivel
07-14-2021, 04:20 PM
I THINK this is a first: same actor, same episode.

The actor who portrays the murderous sheriff that killed Anna Anton also plays the sneaky assassin that shoots Ralph Probst through his window.

A funny aspect of the assassination recreation in the Ralph Probst segment is the actor totally puts his bare fingers all over the window panes before finding the kitchen window. Would've been a slam dunk case.

bell83
07-14-2021, 04:52 PM
I THINK this is a first: same actor, same episode.

The actor who portrays the murderous sheriff that killed Anna Anton also plays the sneaky assassin that shoots Ralph Probst through his window.

A funny aspect of the assassination recreation in the Ralph Probst segment is the actor totally puts his bare fingers all over the window panes before finding the kitchen window. Would've been a slam dunk case.

I need to go watch this, now!

schmave
07-14-2021, 05:09 PM
I can see where there's a resemblance, but not so sure it's the same actor. If it were, kind of careless really!

ChandlerMurielB1
12-09-2021, 08:44 PM
The actress who portrayed an older Catherine in the Curly Green segment was in another one too.. Can't remember which though!

Janel "Jaycee" Miller
12-19-2021, 06:27 PM
Is the actor who played the father of Huey Long's alleged assassin the same actor who played the man who reportedly was involved in disappearance of Audrey Moate and murder of Thomas Hobbard?

Jon
04-18-2022, 07:14 PM
The actor who played Dr. Kenneth Frank looks like he played John James Irwin?

(Disagree with me if you like -- I don't block people who disagree with me)

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bip05
04-18-2022, 07:21 PM
The actor who played Dr. Kenneth Frank looks like he played John James Irwin?

(Disagree with me if you like -- I don't block people who disagree with me)

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Amazing catch! I think you’re right

khanartist79
03-26-2023, 10:38 PM
Dennis North, the actor who played Jerry "Circlestansive Evidence" Strickland also played Robert Miller (his daughter, a deaf woman named Patty English, was searching for him).

North appeared on the show one other time as Harley Price, an abusive alcoholic, who often left his kids in the car for hours while he frequented the bars in town. IIRC, Harley's wife eventually left him, but when she was told she would have to return to him in order to get custody of their kids, she refused; so, the kids ended up being taken by the courts and placed in foster homes.

Diane Robin, who portrayed waitress Didi Malloy in the first season of "Angie," appeared on UM twice: once, as Wendi Long's mother; and the other time as Denise Piccioni, whose cousin, Mike Tlusty, was murdered by Laura Law, his gambling addict girlfriend, and then dumped in their backyard shed. (Robin wore a wig or fall in the latter performance.)

khanartist79
03-26-2023, 11:44 PM
Tim Barry and Paul Stamper?

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Not the same actor, but definitely the same mustache.

TheCars1986
03-27-2023, 08:33 AM
Can someone help me out with this one? This actor was featured in the Karen Pelletierre segment very briefly:

https://i.ibb.co/gPWX4nq/cordell1.png

He also played the director in Ernest Saves Christmas:

https://i.ibb.co/0GJChL5/cordell2.png

He is a local Florida actor named Bill Cordell. He used to have a website that listed all of his credits but I can't find it now. I'm 99% sure he was in another segment from an earlier season filmed in Florida. But I can't remember which one.

schmave
03-27-2023, 09:24 AM
North appeared on the show one other time as Harley Price, an abusive alcoholic, who often left his kids in the car for hours while he frequented the bars in town. IIRC, Harley's wife eventually left him, but when she was told she would have to return to him in order to get custody of their kids, she refused; so, the kids ended up being taken by the courts and placed in foster homes.


Kind of follows the trend of actors being used for segments that appear in the same region. The Harley Price and (most of the) Strickland cases took place in Michigan, and the Miller/English case was set in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Whether it was filmed here, I don't know.
The lady who played Wendy Camp also played Lela Stallings. Both of those were in Oklahoma.
And Jaycee, yes, the man who played Ernest Acosta also portrayed Carl Austin Weiss' father. Both in Louisiana, of course.

Or So It Seems
03-28-2023, 09:13 PM
I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but I noticed tonight that one of the thugs in the CW Roddy segment was none other than Todd Mueller (wearing his trademark baseball hat).

https://youtu.be/opOW9pkokME?t=2560

This segment also has the overly dramatic FBI Agent, William E. Smith, who we also see prominently in the Dark Dante segment.

TheCars1986
03-29-2023, 07:08 AM
I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but I noticed tonight that one of the thugs in the CW Roddy segment was none other than Todd Mueller (wearing his trademark baseball hat).

He also played Larry Monroe in the Don Smith segment.

Janel "Jaycee" Miller
04-29-2024, 12:12 PM
Hi.

The girl who plays a young Barbara Smith Reed (the girl who runs down the street crying after being told she was adopted in the 1940s and later finds out her best friend is her sister) looks a lot like the girl who played a young Aideen Murphy (the girl who was placed in a London orphanage and makes friends with Eve Meisel who was placed at the same orphanage after her family fled the Nazis)?

Anyone else think the actress is the same?

The Gov
06-02-2024, 10:37 AM
I'm almost certain the doctor who delivered Alberta Elaine Schambier was the also Erik Kessler.

schmave
06-02-2024, 11:11 AM
Just rewatched the segment and it could be him, but his appearance is so brief that it's hard to tell. Lighting did not favor him either, as in not getting a great look.

WishfulDreamer
06-06-2024, 07:49 PM
The non-custodial husbands in the Craig Walker and David Estright cases were played by the same actor.

Usmysteriesmaniac
06-07-2024, 11:35 PM
A bit off tangent, to me the best acting job is done by the Jim Burnside guy. Man, what great casting that was. He looked, sounded, and acted like a brazen psychopath.
The same actor who played Jim Burnside also played him when that case was featured in America's Most Wanted at the time. It would be interesting to see how that segment was featured in that show, provided there's someone, anyone out there who may happen to have it someway, somehow.

DALLASTEXAN!!
06-22-2024, 01:29 PM
not an actor, but I was reminded recently when I watched the dwayne mccorkendale segment that the detective Paul Renfrow appeared in multiple segments. He was in the aileen conway and michael st. clair segments as well.

TheCars1986
07-27-2024, 12:56 PM
The guy who played Don Smith also played William L. Toomey.

brianh333
01-22-2025, 04:03 PM
He also played Larry Monroe in the Don Smith segment.

I don't suppose you've ever found the name of this actor, have you? I posed the question back in 2017 earlier in this thread, and after stumbling into the CW Roddy segment recently and seeing him pop up again, this mystery crossed my mind once again.

I've tried IMDB, Google, Fandom, multiple searches throughout this forum, and I keep coming up completely empty.

TheCars1986
01-23-2025, 09:21 AM
I don't suppose you've ever found the name of this actor, have you? I posed the question back in 2017 earlier in this thread, and after stumbling into the CW Roddy segment recently and seeing him pop up again, this mystery crossed my mind once again.

I've tried IMDB, Google, Fandom, multiple searches throughout this forum, and I keep coming up completely empty.

No I do not know his name unfortunately.

The actor who played Brad Bishop was also in the Frank Olson segment as one of the other agents at the retreat where Olson was given a spiked drink.

ghosthouse
01-24-2025, 08:46 AM
I don't suppose you've ever found the name of this actor, have you? I posed the question back in 2017 earlier in this thread, and after stumbling into the CW Roddy segment recently and seeing him pop up again, this mystery crossed my mind once again.

I've tried IMDB, Google, Fandom, multiple searches throughout this forum, and I keep coming up completely empty.

No I do not know his name unfortunately.

The actor who played Brad Bishop was also in the Frank Olson segment as one of the other agents at the retreat where Olson was given a spiked drink.

I think someone has confirmed the guy playing Todd Mueller, Larry Monroe, gangster in the CW Roddy Segment, etc was an UM production assistant so I doubt he has much of an IMDB.

Also, speaking of Brad Bishop...the detective that uses the key from the neighbor to enter the Bishop house and finds all the blood also plays the detective in the hotel room in the Danny Casalero segment. Guessing since both were Washington DC area cases they used the same casting resources.

dynoguy88
08-24-2025, 07:18 PM
I'm 99% sure the actor playing the Rock Creek gang member (in the Chief Hamerick segment) changing a tire and talking to a police officer is the same actor who portrayed the high school version of sweet Victor Simon...who fell asleep in class and was devastated when his birth parents weren't at his high school graduation.

Both these cases also took place in Ohio. Coincidence?

MegtheEgg86
08-26-2025, 04:29 PM
the overly dramatic FBI Agent, William E. Smith

:lol::lol::lol: I love that guy. "...his curiosity became unsatis-fiiiied.."

WishfulDreamer
08-26-2025, 05:29 PM
The actor who played Brad Bishop was also in the Frank Olson segment as one of the other agents at the retreat where Olson was given a spiked drink.

He is also the guy who threatened someone in the Curt Borton segment. "What you did today was reallyyyy stupid" in a singsong voice while holding a gun. :lol:

JenniferS.
08-29-2025, 02:32 AM
Dennis North, the actor who played Jerry "Circlestansive Evidence" Strickland also played Robert Miller (his daughter, a deaf woman named Patty English, was searching for him).

he also played the father of house full kids who house burned down and the wife left him and wouldnt come back because she said he kill her an d all kids wouild up taken away. His line was do you want live with or her. i can not thin k of families n ame but the brother were loking for there sister and youngest brothers,.

JenniferS.
08-29-2025, 02:36 AM
Also the red headed actress who played the mother of benny , also played the older sister, who raised her five younger siblings in a farm house that burned down and there younger siblings were seperated. Glendas, Keith and Erica were being looked for.

WishfulDreamer
08-29-2025, 04:51 PM
he also played the father of house full kids who house burned down and the wife left him and wouldnt come back because she said he kill her an d all kids wouild up taken away. His line was do you want live with or her. i can not thin k of families n ame but the brother were loking for there sister and youngest brothers,.

Good eye! I never realized it was the same guy.

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/The_Siblings_of_Eugene_Price

WishfulDreamer
08-29-2025, 04:53 PM
Also the red headed actress who played the mother of benny , also played the older sister, who raised her five younger siblings in a farm house that burned down and there younger siblings were seperated. Glendas, Keith and Erica were being looked for.

Another good eye here.

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Benjamin_Baker

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Erick,_Glynda,_and_Keath_Nickerson

Allierain
09-03-2025, 02:22 PM
I’ve been wondering if UM often hired local actors for cases. I wish I had their names. The actor who played the father-in-law of Carl Austin Weiss (Huey Long segment) also played Ernest Acosta (Audrey Moate segment), both cases filmed in NOLA and Baton Rouge. The actor you all mentioned above who played the guy with the gun in the Curt Borton segment also played Brad Bishop, both cases filmed in Washington DC and surrounding areas. And of course Stephni Weir from Mad TV is from Odessa, Texas where the Neil Jennings segment took place and was filmed. It’s cool that UM hired local actors on multiple occasions.

Some actors were named in the closing credits and someone (I thought from here) mentioned that UM did that for SAG members. Does anyone know if I am remembering that right?

MegtheEgg86
12-03-2025, 08:05 PM
Just found one tonight I've never noticed in all these years: the "never you mind" hunter in the Audrey Moate segment and the man who waved to A.J. Breaux but didn't get a wave back = same actor. Both Louisiana cases, so he must have been a local.

TheCars1986
12-04-2025, 08:26 AM
Just found one tonight I've never noticed in all these years: the "never you mind" hunter in the Audrey Moate segment and the man who waved to A.J. Breaux but didn't get a wave back = same actor. Both Louisiana cases, so he must have been a local.

That's a great catch. UM did this a lot for segments filmed in the same general area as others.

Jon
12-04-2025, 12:10 PM
They said in the 35th anniversary special that UM became like a community theatre for local actors. And you can see why, for budget reasons (Why go through an LA agency and fly Hollywood-based actors out to those locations when you can just use local talent)

dynoguy88
12-04-2025, 12:37 PM
They said in the 35th anniversary special that UM became like a community theatre for local actors. And you can see why, for budget reasons (Why go through an LA agency and fly Hollywood-based actors out to those locations when you can just use local talent)

That’s what happened with my middle school classmate who appeared in the Eugene Price Lost Love segment. (He played young Eugene). This was a local case. He was a hardcore dancer more than an actor but he did have a resemblance to Eugene. And I’m sure he was probably picked through the same agency.

MegtheEgg86
03-11-2026, 09:27 AM
Found another one today: the same actress played Sally Garrity and the strip club waitress who didn't want to talk to Anton Kline in the Crystal Spencer segment.

schmave
03-11-2026, 09:30 AM
Wow, good catch. Never noticed that.
The Garrity segment had one of my favorite exchanges:: "Get a job." "Shut uuuuuuup!"

TheCars1986
03-11-2026, 10:09 AM
I don't suppose you've ever found the name of this actor, have you? I posed the question back in 2017 earlier in this thread, and after stumbling into the CW Roddy segment recently and seeing him pop up again, this mystery crossed my mind once again.

I've tried IMDB, Google, Fandom, multiple searches throughout this forum, and I keep coming up completely empty.

His name is Todd O. Russell and his IMDB page is here:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751483/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_3_27

Gelatinous Goo
03-11-2026, 10:54 AM
Found another one today: the same actress played Sally Garrity and the strip club waitress who didn't want to talk to Anton Kline in the Crystal Spencer segment.

I take it you were watching the live internet feed this morning as well!

Allierain
03-11-2026, 11:19 AM
In the case of Eric Kessler (Edward Maynard), the same actor who played him in the segment came back again to play him in the update (with his real voice lol). This is the only case I remember this happening. Are there any others I missed? I cannot see to prove that the couple in the Kay Beeman update were the same actors, and it’s clear the actor in the Dennis DePue update was not the same.

MegtheEgg86
03-11-2026, 02:55 PM
I take it you were watching the live internet feed this morning as well!

Yep!

WishfulDreamer
03-11-2026, 05:54 PM
Found another one today: the same actress played Sally Garrity and the strip club waitress who didn't want to talk to Anton Kline in the Crystal Spencer segment.

"WHAT?!"

:lol::lol::lol: My mother and I used to crack up at this for the acting when the actress can't hear what he is asking her. Then she goes "I DON'T KNOW" and stomps away. She was a little better playing Sally, but of course that segment is chock full of wonderful bad dialogue.