Robin Williams, Robert Duvall, Tom Selleck, and Brendan Fraser Have All Inexplicably Played the Same Role: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Usually, multiple actors who’ve played the same character possess something in common – a physical resemblance, or a similar personality, especially if the role is a historical figure. But I can’t find anything that Robin Williams, Robert Duvall, Tom Selleck, and Brendan Fraser remotely have in common as either actors or people, except that they’ve all played Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, the US Army general who led the Allies to victory in World War II and later became the 34th President of th...

By Jim Vejvoda