Yet, sometimes, one can also see that one actor may turn up repeatedly in another given filmmaker's work. Here's a few who were repeatedly used by the same people:
A young George Chandler.
George Chandler, who pops up in no less than 22 of William Wellman's movies, from The Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936) to The High and the Mighty (1954). Sometimes he's a cabbie, deliveryboy or, as in the case of Roxie Hart (1942), he has a delightful part as a hapless husband of Ginger Rogers' character.
An older George Chandler.
Another example of an actor who was a kind of "good luck charm" for some filmmakers would be the ubiquitous Ian Wolfe. In his autobiography, producer (and sometime writer, actor & director) John Houseman, mentioned that he never felt right unless he used the versatile Mr. Wolfe in one of his six postwar productions from They Live By Night (1948) to Moonfleet (1955). Wolfe, who has about 275+ movies and productions to his name, lived almost a century and did his last appearance on film in Dick Tracy (1990), just 2 years prior to his death.
Ian Wolfe, whose appearance really didn't change substantially from the '30s to the '90s.
Can you think of other actors whose presence in a cast lineup has struck you?
