Same character in 8 films. So that ties Nimoy. But there's probably another role/series I'm missing.

Not a big Harry Potter fan, but how could I have overlooked that in the wake of Hermione's Panama troubles?!?

Ok, found this. From her spokesperson, but sounds legit.

He would have to be at or near the top of the list.

(I just happen to know this and didn't use Google.)

I knew that he'd played Holmes but had no idea it was 14. I'd say that we have a winnah!

I think he was Rathbone's sidekick in all those films.

I used to adore those movies. Watched them again and again as a child. Rathbone was the ONLY Holmes for me ... until Benedict Cumberbatch stole the mantle.

as my all time favorite Holmes, but that was small screen almost exclusively.

Wikipedia says he appeared as Q in 17 Bond films. A new winnah!

here are the runners up:

http://www.cinelinx.com/movie-stuff/item/5690-actors-who-ve-played-the-same-character-the-most-times.html

I actually thought it might have been the Tarzan movies and I only posted after a legitimate winner was crowned...so there!

Marjorie Main as Ma Kettle
Joe Kirkwood Jr as Joe Palooka
Warner Oland as Charlie Chan
Haruo Nakajima as the guy in the Godzilla suit
Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi

I've only seen one or two, and not in the last three decades, so I couldn't remember how many actors might have played the role.

Ma Kettle and Joe Palooka would never have occurred to me. Did you know these off the top of your head, or did you cheat like me?

The other ones I ran across while researching

22 times.

In 1931, the Fox Film Corporation cast Swedish actor Warner Oland as Chan in Charlie Chan Carries On; the film became popular, and Fox went on to produce fifteen more Chan films with Oland in the title role. After Oland's death, American actor Sidney Toler was cast as Chan; Toler made twenty-two Chan films, first for Fox and then for Monogram Studios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan

I met Desmond Llewelyn. Twice. Sweetest man you'd ever meet.

I can name all the Bond films he was in, in order, and the year they were released.

And to think I call myself a James Bond fan.

I'm now stripped of my Walther PPK.

Starting with Cheers.

48 movies though some would quibble that the 'gang' went by different names like East End Kids and Dead End Kids. And of the two, I think Hall actually has the edge by a couple of appearances.

who played the role of Louie.

and 100 television episodes over the course of almost thirty years. That's gotta be the record.

Definitely sounds like the leader, but he simply hadn't occurred to me. 26! Wow!

Munch rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Munch#Appearances_and_crossovers

We're talking big-screen film releases, and we're not talking Belzer.

Google it.

While the names may have been different, John Wayne essentially played the same character in almost all of his movies

Walter Brennan. He was in something like 4000 movies in which he played the same character except for maybe twice.

two reelers got to count for something.

Or however many of them there were.

But who's counting?

Although I tend to ignore the 5th, 12th, 16th, and 21st movies, since they sucked so bad. Who's idea was it to put Jar Jar Binks in a Rambo movie?!

It was slow at first, but once Rocky joined the circus, the story really picked up.

Though it probably deserved it, in a Cold War kind of way.

John Wayne played the same character in just about every film he starred in.

I'm absolutely horrible at these types of trivia questions.

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Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton as Dagwood and Blondie—28 films in total (Plus a Radio show, and Lake did TV version)

Myrna Loy and William Powell, six each. Not the most but noteworthy.