History Main / ThoseTwoActors

* Creator/FredAstaire and Creator/GingerRogers were cast as a BetaCouple in ''Film/FlyingDownToRio'', and made such an impression that they starred in eight more movie musicals over the next six years. ''The Barkleys of Broadway'' brought them back together once more; Ginger Rogers had been trying to put musicals behind her, but Creator/JudyGarland was unavailable. While not so much close offscreen (as she put it, "We had fun and it shows. True, we were never bosom buddies off the screen; we were different people with different interests. We were only a couple on film"), both are even interred in the same graveyard.

* Creator/DickPowell and Ruby Keeler appeared together in seven Creator/WarnerBros musicals between 1933 and 1936. In fact, Ruby Keeler only appeared in three other feature films, one of them pairing her with then-husband Al Jolson.

** Before teaming up with Nelson Eddy, Jeanette [=MacDonald=] had previously been paired with Creator/MauriceChevalier (mostly under Creator/ErnstLubitsch's direction) in ''Film/TheLoveParade'' (1929), ''Film/OneHourWithYou'' (1932), ''Film/LoveMeTonight'' (1932), and ''Film/TheMerryWidow1934''.

** It did facilitate another Ben & Matt movie eventually, ''Film/TheLastDuel''.

* Creator/AlbertFinney and Creator/MichaelGambon appeared together in several films, including ''Film/AmazingGrace'', ''Film/AManOfNoImportance'', and the 1994 film adaptation of ''Theatre/TheBrowningVersion''.
* Creator/MichaelGambon and Creator/TomHollander appeared together in ''Series/WivesAndDaughters'' (playing father and son), ''Film/GosfordPark'' (playing brothers-in-law) and ''Series/TheLostPrince'' (playing father and son again).

** Also Spencer Breslin has appeared in a few movies with his sister Creator/AbigailBreslin: ''Film/RaisingHelen'', ''The Santa Clause 3'', ''The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' and the upcoming ''Perfect Sisters''.

* Creator/KatharineHepburn also costarred with Creator/CaryGrant in four films: ''Film/SylviaScarlett'', ''Film/BringingUpBaby'', ''Film/{{Holiday}}'', and ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory.''

* Jim Hutton and Paula Prentiss did five movies together in the early 1960s. (Prentiss is 5'10" and would have towered over a lot of leading men. Casting her opposite the 6'5" Hutton kept her from having to walk in a trench all the time.)

* Creator/NoelFielding and Creator/JulianBarratt created and starred in ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' together, but are such a matched pair that they routinely appear in other things together-- ''Series/NathanBarley'', ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'', ''AD/BC:A Rock Opera'', films ''The Bunny and the Bull'' and ''Aaaaaaaah!'', the short film ''Sweet'', the miniseries ''Surrealissimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali'', and the 90's sketch show, ''Unnatural Acts''. Such is their chemistry, that in Sweet, their two characters end up as lovers, and in Surrealissimo, they play a pair of co-dependent artists who finish each other's sentences and are nearly always touching. Expect them to be frequently accompanied by Creator/RichardAyoade, Creator/RichFulcher, and Creator/MattBerry, many of whom also appear in the aforementioned shows and films.
* Creator/PeterCushing and Creator/ChristopherLee not only did numerous Film/HammerHorror films together, but a fair number of non-Hammer British horror films. They remained good friends, a fact Alan Davies lampshaded on ''Series/{{QI}}'' when he highlighted the surreality of [[Film/HorrorOfDracula Van Helsing and Dracula]] being so close. (They also were both in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' saga, but not in the same movies--by the time Lee appeared in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', Cushing had been dead for eight years.)

* [[Film/AnimalKingdom Ben Mendelsohn]] and Scoot [=McNairy=] have appeared in ''Film/KillingThemSoftly'', ''Black Sea'' and ''WesternAnimation/AxeCop'' where they played characters named... [[TheDanza Ben and Scoot]].

* Creator/DonaldHowlett and Creator/MichaelKnowles were often partnered together in David Croft's sitcoms. They played upper-class British army officers Colonel Reynolds and Captain Ashwood in ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'', mathematicians Carstairs and Fanshaw in ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah'', and aristocratic brothers Lord Meldrum and Teddy Meldrum in ''Series/YouRangMLord''.

* Creator/KevinConroy and Creator/MarkHamill: Granted they're usually playing {{Franchise/Batman}} and ComicBook/TheJoker, but sometimes they're not and in DC productions where Conroy wasn't Batman they've often got Mark Hamill to play his opposite number because they work so well together. Hamill himself recognized the strength of this trope, such that when Conroy passed due to intestinal cancer in 2022, he swore off playing his iconic role as the Joker ever again.

* Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/NickFrost have been in the ''Film/ThreeFlavoursCornettoTrilogy'' (''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', ''Film/HotFuzz'', ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'') and the movie ''Film/{{Paul}}'', as well as the television series ''Series/{{Spaced}}''. They also starred together in a Website/CollegeHumor sketch, where they played [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2 and C-3PO]]. In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'' they played the twins Thompson and Thomson and in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'' both appear, but their characters never actually meet.

* Creator/TerryScott and Hugh Lloyd starred together in ''Hugh and I'', the follow-up series ''Hugh and I Spy'', and ''Series/TheGnomesOfDulwich''.

* Creator/StephenRoot and Creator/BradleyWhitford appeared together in ''Film/RoboCop3'', ''Film/BicentennialMan'', ''Film/GetOut'' and ''Film/ThreeChrists''.

* Creator/KevinConroy and Creator/MarkHamill: Granted they're usually playing {{Franchise/Batman}} and ComicBook/TheJoker, but sometimes they're not and in DC productions where Conroy wasn't Batman they've often got Mark Hamill to play his opposite number because they work so well together.

* Creator/EmmaRoberts has been in three films with Creator/RoryCulkin - ''Film/{{Lymelife}}'', ''Film/{{Twelve}}'' and ''Film/{{Scream 4}}'' (the latter also counts as a reunion for Creator/MaryMcDonnell and Creator/HaydenPanettiere, as both were in the PoorlyDisguisedPilot / MadeForTVMovie ''Film/ChestnutHill'').

* Creator/RobertDuvall and Creator/BillyBobThornton appeared together in ''Film/TheStarsFellOnHenrietta'', ''Film/SlingBlade'' and ''Film/TheApostle''.

* Creator/CatherineTate and Creator/DavidTennant have been pretty much inseparable after they met on ''Series/DoctorWho'' as Donna Noble and the Tenth Doctor. They've played opposite from each other as Beatrice and Benedick in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' (among other Shakespeare-adaptations), ''UsefulNotes/ComicRelief'', ''Series/TheCatherineTateShow'', ''Radio/BigFinishDoctorWho'', ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' (with Tate's Magica De Spell being antagonist to Tennant's Scrooge [=McDuck=]) and ''many'' more.

** His two highest-grossing movies (''Film/TheSucker'' and ''Film/LaGrandeVadrouille'') were with another French comedy superstar, André Raimbourg, better known as Creator/{{Bourvil}}. They also played together in ''[[Film/TheTripAcrossParis La Traversée de Paris]]'' (1956) and ''Poisson d'avril'' (1954), where De Funès had smaller roles. ''La Folie des grandeurs'' (''Delusions of Grandeur'') was planned to be their fifth together, but it was derailed by Bourvil's death. Creator/YvesMontand took his place after his wife Creator/SimoneSignoret told Gérard Oury about him, and the whole story was rewritten to match differences between Montand and Bourvil.
** After his memorable scene with Creator/JeanGabin in ''[[Film/TheTripAcrossParis La Traversée de Paris]]'' (1956), they were reunited in ''Le Gentleman d'Epson'' (1962) and ''Le Tatoué'' (1968), where they're an OddCouple for the whole last movie.

* Creator/MarlaGibbs and Jackée Harry have appeared together in ''Series/TwoTwoSeven'', ''The First Family'', and ''Series/DaysOfOurLives''. In fact, the latter two series both cast them as mother and daughter.

* Creator/DavidTennant and Creator/MichaelSheen have appeared together multiple times. While they first worked together on ''Film/BrightYoungThings'' (2003), it was ''Series/{{Good Omens|2019}}'' that solidified them as a duo. They also collaborated on the meta comedy ''Series/{{Staged}}'' and ''AudioPlay/{{The Sandman|2020}}'' audio adaptations.

* Creator/MichaelHordern appeared in nearly a half-dozen films with Creator/HarryAndrews.

* Creator/MichaelHordern often appeared in films with Creator/RichardBurton, e.g. ''Film/AlexanderTheGreat1956'', ''Film/Cleopatra'', ''Literature/TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold'', ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'', ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', and ''Film/TheMedusaTouch''.