h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What people do you always get muddled up? It's weird when that happens. I usually find the people look a bit like each other or do similar things.

To kick off:

Jim Dale and Dean Jones

Brian Murphy and Eric Sykes

Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller.

Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.

Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Margot Kidder (Superman).

Sandler and Stiller, YES!

Phew, thank heavens I'm not the only one!

William Hurt and Jeff Bridges.

Pretty much all the Baldwins.

And Britain's answer to the Baldwins - the McGann clan


Spike Milligan and any really old Indian guy - I don't know why he just had that air about him! (One of my best friends is Sikh and as we both approach middle age, I can see it happening already! )

Tim Allen and Alan Rickman

having Galaxy Quest is a saviour, I can now have both names in my mind at the same time, but only by reading the video box.

Albert Finney and Brian Cox

Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka
Matthews Southern Comfort and Credence Clearwater Revival

Atwood and Drabble - and it's not just because they're both Magarets.

It's not life threatening, but can be annoying.

I heard Suzanne Dando complaining that everyone always thinks she's Sharron Davies.

I had a partner (many, many moons ago)who, according to lots of people I knew, bore an uncanny resemblance to a reasonably well know British actor. I don't think I have actually ever seen a film/TV series with the actor in it. Then years later I was in London, wandering down a street, and I saw my ex! We had parted on reasonably good terms, so I greeted him. "Hi, how's it going?" all that sort of stuff - and though he was friendly I realised he had no idea who I was.

Then I realised he wasn't my ex at all. He was actually the actor.............

So I then had to say to this (really quite well known) actor, who had put up quite a good pretence of knowing who I was, "I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else".

I guess he found it equally strange, or thought I was mad...........

I just visited the actors website, and yep - spitting image!

...more, give us more!

Yeah, who was the famous person?

Sandler and Stiller people?!?!?!
Come on, Sandler is nothing like Stiller.

And an easy way to tell Alan Rickman and Tim Allen apart, Rickman-englishman, Tim/ the toolman Taylor/Allen.


Woah there Jon, sounding a bit rude, shut up!


Yeah I'm guilty of not remembering names let alone mixing them up.
Have you ever met a friend of a friend and not quite caught their name and not asked it because you never thought you'd meet them again, then you keep on seeing them in the street and they keep on talking to you. That keeps on happening to me.

I'm such an idiot.

Martin Short and Rick Moranis

Al Pacino and Robert Deniro

Charleton Heston and Richard Chamberlain

Walter Mathau and Martin Landau

In each of these cases, I know who the individual actors are, but I always want to call the second actor by the first actor's name for some odd reason.

Myjo

Bernie Clifton (puppet ostrich person) and Don MacClean (Crackerjack man).

Pacino/DeNiro!

I have that problem too.

Bella Emberg/Janine Duvitski (played Angus Deayton's wife in 'One Foot In The Grave')

Sean Penn and Nicholas Cage

...the only reason I can come up with for confusing them is that they both have last names that sound like animal enclosures......