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** The biopic ''The Life and Death of Peter Sellers'' has Geoffrey Rush not only playing Sellers and his characters, but also suggests Sellers is directing it and playing everyone else in the film by sometimes stopping the action and revealing, say, [[Blake Edwards]] ([[John Lithgow]]) to be played by Rush-as-Sellers, and commenting to the viewer on Sellers' behavior. This may be a confusing attempt at a [[Deconstruction]] of Sellers, given the film's overall attitude towards him as a person and errors that can be seen as [[They Just Didn't Care]] for those familiar with his life and work.
* [[Tim Burton]]'s film of ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]'', where one actor ([[Deep Roy]]) plays ''all'' the Oompa-Loompas through the miracle of CGI.
* Any ''[[Monty Python]]'' film, for all six of the Pythons involved--although [[
* [[Mike Myers]] playing the role of several key characters in the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' franchise.
** In the first film he played only Austin and Dr. Evil, but picked up the roles of Fat Bastard and Goldmember in the sequels.
* In ''[[Coming to America]]'', [[Eddie Murphy]] and Arsenio Hall play several different roles, including white or female characters.
** [[Eddie Murphy]] is doing this a lot more nowadays.
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** In one surprisingly inspired scene [[Robert Downey, Jr.]].'s character has an emotional breakdown that causes him to progressively remove his make up. At each stage he takes on a different accent and personality.
* In the short film ''Ghosts'', [[Michael Jackson]] plays two main roles (the Maestro and the Mayor) and three transformed versions of them (Skeleton, Superghoul and Ghoul Mayor).
* In ''[[Clerks]]'', several actors play multiple small roles. Given the late hours and low pay, many of those cast simply failed to show up, so Smith would have anyone who happened to be around step in. David Klein (the cinematographer) and Walter Flanagan get hit the hardest with this, with five and four roles respectively.
* [[Buster Keaton]]'s silent comedy ''[[The Playhouse]]'' (1921) opens with a scene in which ''every character'' at a theatrical performance - actors, stagehands, musicians, audience members , a twelve-man minstrel show - is played by Keaton, impressive both for Keaton's skill and for the technical aspects of pulling something like this off so early in film history. It's even lampshaded when one of the Keatons remarks to another, "This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show."
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939) had Frank Morgan playing five different roles: The Wizard, Mr. Marvel, a gatekeeper in Emerald City, a carriage driver, and a guard in the Wizard's palace.
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