Chained Actors & Their Roles

Can you name the actors and/or characters that form a chain of roles?

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This American actor, best known for managing 'The Office'...
...played this bumbling secret agent in a 2008 movie...
...originally played by this actor on the TV series 'Get Smart'...
... who was also the voice of this cybernetic cartoon policeman...
... who was made a live-action screen character played by this 'Ferris Bueller' actor...
... who played this Broadway accountant in 2005's 'The Producers' ...
... a role originated in the 1968 film by this 'Blazing Saddles' actor...
... who later played this Chocolate Factory owner in a 1971 movie based on a Roald Dahl book.
But when Tim Burton remade the film in 2005 starring this actor, he changed the title.
Then, when Burton made 'Alice in Wonderland' in 2010, the same actor played this unstable haberdasher
...a character played (in a 1954 TV production) by this Oscar winner for 'Harry & Tonto'
...but the same actor is much better known for playing this sewer worker on the classic TV series, 'The Honeymooners'
Now that character shares his name with an actor, who played this alter ego in 2008's 'Incredible Hulk'
...who only five years earlier was played by this 'Munich' actor in Ang Lee's 'Hulk'.
...who later played this British King in 'The Other Bolelyn Girl'...
..a king who was also played by this Oscar-winning actor & NRA spokesman in 1978's 'Crossed Swords'...
Among the other iconic roles by the same actor was this biblical figure from 1957's 'The Ten Commandments'
...who in 1998's animated 'The Prince of Egypt' was voiced by this 'Top Gun' co-star...
...who had just bombed as this character in the movie remake of 'The Saint'...
...based on the TV series of the same name starring this actor...
... who took over the role of this British spy in 1973's 'Live and Let Die'
... a role originated in the movies by this Scottish actor...
...who in 1976 played an aged version of this legendary figure who sought the hand of Maid Marion...
...also played by this American actor who kept his accent in the 1991 film subtitled 'Prince of Thieves'
... who came to fame as this Prohibition enforcer in 1987's 'The Untouchables'...
... based on the 1960's TV series starring this actor as the same lawman...
... who in a 1975 TV movie played this first President of the Republic of Texas, after whom the a large city is named...
... a role also played by this brother of actor Randy in the 2004's 'The Alamo'.
ClueCharacter or Actor
... who also played this Tombstone dentist in 1994's 'Wyatt Earp'...
... a role played in 1939's 'Frontier Marshall' by this Latin Lover actor...
... who almost 30 years later regained fame as this green-haired villain on TV's 'Batman'.
That same bad guy was played by this 3-time Oscar winner in the 1989 'Batman film.
...who early in his career played this masochistic dental patient (credited as Wilber Force) in 1960's 'The Little Shop of Horrors'...
In the 1986 music remake, the same role was played by this 'Groundhog Day' actor'...
... who voiced this lasagna-loving cat in a 2004 film...
... originally voiced in cartoons by this melodically named actor
... who was the cartoon voice of this Ghostbuster (originally played by the previous actor!)...
That same Ghostbuster was later voiced by this 'Full House' star...
...who in an episode of 'Pinky & the Brain' voiced this real-life 'Forrest Gump' actor...
That actor played this real-life astronaut in 'Apollo 13'...
...and produced the HBO series 'From the Earth to the Moon' where this 'Private Practice' star played the same Mission Commander
... who in the 2000 TV series 'The Fugitive' played this doctor falsely accused of murder...
... the same role that 7 years earlier was played on the big screen by this 'Star Wars' actor...
... who played this Tom Clancy character in 'A Clear & Present Danger' and 'Patriot Games'...
... but the role was taken over by this actor/director for 'The Sum of All Fears'...
... who in 2006's Hollywoodland, played this real-life 'Adventures of Superman' leading man...
... who disguised himself as this mild-mannered reporter...
The 1978 movie 'Superman' starred this actor who became a quadriplegic after a horsing accident...
... who also played this Russian count in 1985's 'Anna Karenina'
... a role reprised 12 years later by this actor who also played Boromir in 'Lord of the Rings'.
... who played this supreme Olympian god in 'Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief'...
... as did this knighted British acting legend in the 1981 version of 'Clash of the Titans'.
... who won an Oscar as this Danish prince in 1948...
... that in 1990 was also played by this 'Lethal Weapon' actor...
... who in 1994 played this western poker player, the title character...
... in a remake of the 1960s TV series where the same character was played by this 'Rockford Files' actor.
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