History FakeShemp / LiveActionTV

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIStasisLeak Stasis Leak]]", Claire Grogan (Kochanski) was accidentally not booked for the studio shoot, so in her one scene her dialogue was removed and the assistant floor manager had to stand in for her, wearing a big hat that partially covered her face.

* On the subject of ''Franchise/KamenRider''...

** It'd be easier to list who ''isn't'' a Shemp out of approximately 33 Riders[[note]]including cameo appearances. [[Series/KamenRiderBlack Shadow Moon]] is not accounted for because he doesn't qualify as a Rider by Creator/ShotaroIshinomori's WordOfGod; besides, [[TheOtherDarrin he's the only one in the movie who's neither the original nor a Shemp since he gets to prominently appear outside of his suit]], making him one more ''Decade'' AR Rider.[[/note]] in ''[[Series/KamenRiderDecade All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]]'': [[Series/KamenRiderBlack Black]], [[Series/KamenRiderBlackRX Black RX]], [[Series/KamenRiderAgito Agito]], [[Series/KamenRiderRyuki Ohja]], [[Series/KamenRiderKabuto Kick Hopper]], [[Series/KamenRiderDenO Den-O Sword Form]], [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Decade, Diend]], [[AlternateUniverse Decade!]][[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga]] and [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Double]]. Doing the math, that means that 70% of the movie's cast is a Shemp! Even Amazon – who had a Decade incarnation and got some quality lines in the film – got a new VA.
*** Fujioka ''was'' going to appear in the movie, but there was a miscommunication and they had to recast the part. In the next big reunion movie, ''[[Series/KamenRiderOOO OOO]], [[Series/KamenRiderDenO Den-O]], All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Rider'', Fujioka, Takeshi Sasaki and Creator/HiroshiMiyauchi came back to voice their characters, although they did not appear out of suit. And like in the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' example above, Miyauchi had to do ''two'' voices, as Series/KamenRiderV3 and Zubat. However, everyone else wasn't important to the story so they were, as in ''All Riders Vs. Dai-Shocker,'' always suited (with the exception of ''Series/KamenRiderDouble''[='=]s lead actors, and that was only because of the convenience of ''Double''[='=]s DirectToVideo movies being filmed at the same time as ''Let's Go Kamen Riders'') and their grunts during their fight scene were given by the same [=VAs=] who provided their voices in ''Vs. Dai-Shocker.'' Same goes for bad guys, though ''many'' do get their original actors, such as [[Series/KamenRiderStronger General Shadow]]. On that note, Series/{{Kikaider}} is voiced in the film by Creator/TomokazuSeki, his voice actor in the 2000 ''Kikaider'' anime series.

*** ''Movie War Ultimatum'', has one of the rare examples of maskless Shemps in Kamen Rider. Kamen Riders [[Series/KamenRiderOOO OOO]], Birth, [[Series/KamenRiderDouble W]] and Accel make a surprise appearance during the final battle in order to assist [[Series/KamenRiderWizard Wizard]], [[Series/KamenRiderFourze Fourze]], Meteor, and Nadeshiko. The problem is, only Shu Watanabe (OOO) returned to reprise his role. Surprisingly though, rather than only appearing transformed, the movie featured uncredited suit actors dressed as the past Riders for one scene, where they're shown from their backs or in close ups that don't show their faces.

*** Zig-zagged in ''Film/HeiseiRiderVsShowaRiderKamenRiderWarsFeaturingSuperSentai''. Most of the returning Riders are Fake Shemp examples, but Creator/HiroshiFujioka (the original Series/KamenRider), Ryo Hayami (Series/KamenRiderX) and Shun Sugata (Film/KamenRiderZX) return to play their original, 70's-era characters. This is notable as the first time in decades Fujioka actually portrayed his character out of costume, as opposed to simply providing his voice. Meanwhile, the actors who played Kamen Riders [[Series/KamenRiderW Joker]], [[Series/KamenRiderFaiz Faiz, Kaixa]], Decade, and Wizard all returned as well.

*** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'' had an unusual case of this from the ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' arc: both Souta Fukushi (Gentaro Kisaragi/Fourze) and Ryo Yoshizawa (Ryusei Sakuta/Meteor) were eager to reprise their roles, but when the time came they were in the middle of filming ''Film/{{Bleach}}'' and couldn't make it to the ''Zi-O'' set. In order to salvage the story arc, it was rewritten to add ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz''[[note]]Whose stars Kento Handa (Takumi Inui/Faiz) and Kohei Murakami (Masato Kusaka/Kaixa) were both available to cameo[[/note]] and Gentaro ended up getting Shemped, both as Fourze and in the more traditional "substitute in actor's costume, filmed from behind" sense. The unusual part comes from the fact that Fukushi was able to record voice-overs, so at the very least the Shemp has the right voice.

** [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle "The Giggle"]]: [[spoiler:Creator/BernardCribbins was only well enough to do one scene in [[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder]] so Wilf is portrayed using a body double and archive audio.]]

** In episode 613 ("Kitten with a Whip") Crow (puppeteered by Trace Beaulieu) visits Deep 13, and is silently menaced by Dr. Forrester's hand, actually belonging to a stand-in wearing the lab coat so Trace Beaulieu could puppeteer. An outtake from the episode feature's Trace's head accidentally popping into frame next to his own stand-in; Trace acknowledges the flub and says "Hi, I'm not in this."

** In TheMovie, Gypsy was being puppeteered by Patrick Brantseg so Jim Mallon could concentrate on directing. Brantseg was successful enough at the job, and Mallon tired enough of juggling the role with his other duties, that Brantseg was eventually given the role in the series proper, now with voice duties and official credit.

* For its [[MilestoneCelebration 100th episode]], ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' attempted to bring back all of its former cast members, but Creator/ColinDonnell (Tommy Merlyn) and Creator/ManuBennett (Comicbook/{{Deathstroke}}) were both unavailable. Because of this, Tommy only appeared as a ghost via CGI while a stand-in actor played Deathstroke in full costume, with him notably being silent for all of his screentime. John Diggle also fights a Ghost who is presumably meant to be his evil brother Andy Diggle, who also remains unvoiced.

* In the original ''Series/Batman1966'' TV series, one baddie had the clever idea of [[LegionOfDoom forming a gang out of all the major bad guys from the show]]. Since it would have been impossible to bring in all the guest stars who played those characters, the big fight took place in the dark.
** Also, they didn't have enough money for fight choreography that week.

* The producers of ''Series/{{Community}}'' couldn't get Malcolm-Jamal Warner back as Shirley's husband for the episode "Heroic Origins", so they used a stand-in who had no lines and was only seen from behind. The episode did the same for Pierce since Creator/ChevyChase had quit the show, and actually {{Lampshaded}} it.

*** The row of Doctors at the end was made by shooting a bunch of body doubles in bad wigs and using CGI to paste the faces on. Due to the limited image quality of 1960s and 70s photography, it [[SpecialEffectFailure only looks good]] [[http://s23.postimg.org/vv8a30pbv/doctor_who_2005_50th_anniversary_special_the_day.jpg if you don't peer at it too closely.]] A similar method was used to bring back the Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith for one of the 50th Anniversary trailers aimed at netting classic fans.

* In the Soviet SciFi CultClassic ''Series/GuestFromTheFuture'', Alisa shows off her abilities to the class by describing London in perfect English with Received Pronunciation. The problem is Creator/NataliaGuseva could not speak English with RP. So the director had Natalia Guseva mouth the words, but dubbed in lines spoken by the daughter of a British diplomat stationed in Moscow. Noticeably, after Alisa speaks for a second, the camera cuts to a shot of the class.
* On ''Series/HemlockGrove'' [[spoiler: Christina, the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent vargulf]] BigBad, is buried alive at the end of Season 1. The character returned briefly in season 2 but actress Creator/FreyaTingley did not. Consequently, Christina spends the duration of her appearance in wolf form. The only glimpses of her human form are the arms of a body double that begin to transform as Christina claws her way out of the grave, and a corpse that is shown mauled beyond recognition after she is slain again.]]
* ''Series/HomeAndAway'' was left with a rather awkward situation when Vinnie Patterson was sent to jail, leaving his wife and son still on the show. With Vinnie's jail sentence going to end at some point, actor Ryan Kwanten unlikely to return to the show and Ada Nicodemou, who played wife Leah, not leaving any time soon, the decision was taken to [[BusCrash kill Vinnie off screen]]. Then, they revealed he was JustHiding but still couldn't get hold of the actor and had already set Leah up with a new love interest, so Vinnie returned disguised in a large bear costume to spend one last day with his family and leave them a farewell note. (Then, after all that trouble...they killed him off screen ''again''.)

** A very strange example from "Slip Sleddin' Away": in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bigrj7q3lxM&feature=channel&list=UL last scene]] (at 6'30), Mark is sitting on the couch, his head obscured by a cap and a magazine he's holding. A blooper from the end credits confirms that it isn't Taran Noah Smith. Why this was done when there was no reason to have Mark in the scene at all is a mystery.

* ''Series/MadTV'' did a Stuart sketch after Mo Collins, who played Stuart's mom, left the show. Her character was sleeping on the couch with her face not shown.

* Invoked and subverted in the Season 1 finale of ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}''. [[spoiler:The Comicbook/{{Justice League|Of America}} show up after the action, all in silhouette and their faces hidden in shadow, even when Peacemaker walks right past them berating them for being late. Thus, it serves as a surprising reveal a moment later that Creator/JasonMomoa and Creator/EzraMiller are actually present, reprising their respective roles as Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} and Comicbook/TheFlash. Played straight, however, with the rest of the league, as Comicbook/WonderWoman and Comicbook/{{Superman}} remain in the shadows[[note]]Creator/GalGadot was pregnant at the time and, at the time, Creator/HenryCavill hadn't filmed any new footage as Superman since 2017 due to contract disputes[[/note]] and while stand-ins for Comicbook/{{Cyborg}} and Comicbook/{{Batman}} were also present for filming, they were later cut from the scene in post-production[[note]]Creator/RayFisher having been dropped from the franchise due to an ongoing feud with DC Films president Walter Hamada, and Creator/BenAffleck having lost interest in the role of Batman, set to be written out of the DCEU in ''Film/{{The Flash|2023}}''[[/note]].]]

** In the early second season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', actors Austin St. John, Thuy Trang, and Creator/WalterEmanuelJones (who played Jason, Trini and Zack; the Red, Yellow, and Black Rangers) had salary disputes and refused to show up for {{ADR}} sessions. Their voices were recorded by other actors for several episodes. They were eventually fired, and their characters only appeared from a distance, from the back, in stock footage, or in full costume, until they were finally written out.

** Creator/DavidYost (Billy the Blue Ranger) walked off the show during ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''. Yost later confirmed this was because he was fed up with crew harassment over his homosexuality. The problem was that he walked out before his character could be written out, thus redubbed stock footage of Billy was employed until the two-parter "Rangers of Two Worlds", which saw the character experiencing [[OvernightAgeUp accelerated aging]] (allowing for a TimeShiftedActor); at the end of the second part, he's rejunevated offscreen and PutOnABus to the Alien Rangers' home planet, his departure shown via more redubbed stock footage.

** Speaking of the Alien Rangers, the episode "Forever Red" (part of ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'') had (almost) every past Red Ranger team up. Apparently, the actor for Aurico (the Red Alien Ranger) had quit acting and couldn't be found, so Aurico was shown only in morphed form and given little dialogue. This despite Aurico's ''heavy'' RubberForeheadAlien-ness making him a character that very much lends himself to TheOtherDarrin.

* ''Series/{{Primeval}}''

* In ''PrisonBreak'', season 3 episode "Call Waiting" features a phone call from Sara Tancredi. However, the actress who played Tancredi had left the series at the end of season 2[[note]]before returning for Season 4 -- after her character had been [[RetCon killed off]][[/note]]. A stand-in actress was used to portray her, only seen from behind, talking on a phone. [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]] in that the actual actress, Sarah Wayne Callies, agreed to phone in her lines.

** Creator/MichaelRosenbaum left after the Season 7 finale, but the creators wanted Comicbook/LexLuthor to briefly appear in two Season 8 episodes. They brought in Kevin Miller as a body double, then hid as much of his face as possible by revealing that the injuries Lex sustained in Season 7 had left him disfigured and in need of a life support mask, which also allowed Matt Adler to provide his deepened voice.
** At the end of "Icarus", all the heroes attend [[spoiler: Comicbook/{{Hawkman}}]]'s funeral. Impulse, Comicbook/{{Cyborg}}, Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}, [[Comicbook/MartianManhunter J'onn]] and Comicbook/{{Zatanna}} are all standing silently in the shadows.

* Creator/NancyMarchand of ''Series/TheSopranos'' died between seasons. Her final scene was in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS3E2ProshaiLivushka Proshai Livushka]]", and was cobbled together using voice clips from previous scenes and a CGI head of her character (whose lighting does not match the rest of the scene) pasted onto a body double.

*** In a related note, episode 28 of ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger'' Shemps the ''entire'' [[Series/ResshaSentaiToQger ToQger]] team for a scene where Gokaiger's SixthRanger Gai asks to borrow their powers, using replacement actors only filmed from behind. Of course, it helps that [[spoiler:the [=ToQgers=] are all children who were only imagining themselves as teenagers.]]

* The SeriesFinale of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' has an example that is destined to go down in history. [[spoiler: The creators heavily teased the possibility that Creator/CharlieSheen would return for the final episode, but when Charlie passed on the offer, they handled his "return" by briefly showing him from behind, and then having him killed by a falling piano]].

* In the last episode of ''Series/LandOfTheLost'' in which he's seen, Rick Marshall is played by an extra in a curly black wig and seen only from behind.

** In the remake film ''Film/KamenRiderTheFirst'', there's a cameo by [[Series/KamenRider original series]] villain Dr. Shinigami. But with actor Hideyo Amamoto having died in 2003, they ended up using archive footage from the series and voice actor Eiji Maruyama to fill in the void. The character only appears on monitors, so this wasn't that noticeable or distracting like some other examples.

* When Gary Holton died mid-way through recording the second series of ''Series/AufWiedersehenPet'', some on-the-hoof rewrites enabled the series to go ahead with his character featured throughout, although the extant footage of him was spread noticeably thinly.

* ''Series/SamAndCat'': "#[=StuckInABox=]" has Cat spend most of the episode...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, guess]], because Music/ArianaGrande was busy recording her second album. All her lines were prerecorded and a double was used for brief shots of her eating and drinking while inside the box.