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I came across a 1930s movie today, where the villain was played by an actor named Edmund Cobb. I almost did a spit-take… this gentleman looks darn near EXACTLY like Brian Douglas Wilson – it’s uncanny, and a bit scary, actually! What do y’all think?

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Edmund Cobb did quite a bit of acting up from the 1910s until 1966.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167760/

More pics (some look much more Brian-like than others):

https://www.google.com/search?q=Edmund+Cobb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=sx8jVeTyKte3oQSYjYFA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1075&bih=621

I wouldn’t be surprised if he and the Wilsons were related in some way.

Very good call!   :brow

Stunning.   :o

Must be the hat. ;) :hat

he either must be a vampire or a time traveler like these dudes,,,

http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/articles/20-celebrity-images-prove-time-travel-possible

Alan Boyd is a big old/classic movie buff, right?  I wonder if he ever came across this actor and thought the same.

you guys are smoking way too much wacky weed.
There's a slight resemblance, but that's it. Almost every photo I checked, I was thinking, wish I was under the influence like those guys....

He does look like him in some ways there's no doubt about it

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What's a Cobb? From where do the Cobbs hail ? Are the Cobbs of a similar stock to the Wilsons?

Well, I'll bet Brian loves himself a Cobb salad with his steak. So there's that  :lol

But seriously though, I'm almost wondering the same thing.

His facial expression is a lot like Brian's, so there is indeed a resemblance, but not an eerie one I think.


Thanks for this, that was fun! :)

Funny stuff  :-D but Brian has been too much of a shape shifter to have been that Cobb guy.

you're welcome  ;D

Boyd is a silent movie buff, to his eternal and undying credit.  :)

This Edmund Cobb actor did nearly two decades of silent movies, so maybe Alan Boyd has seen Cobb's Brian-like face at some point...

Brian...er...Edmund: "You're Under Arrest!"

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Actually, he reminds me more of Murry - but the mouth and the eyes carry through.

I'd tend to doubt that on basic principles, viz, if he had, we'd have heard about it before now.  ;D

Resurrecting my old thread to add some more BB lookalikes that I've noticed lately.

Mike Love and actor Drew Snyder (Commando, CHiPs, etc):

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Fred Vail and John Mills-Cockell, electronic composer:

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Expect a defamation suit from Drew Snyder's lawyer. And expect it very soon.  ;)

Re: Fred Vail & John Mills: you're kidding, right? Bags under eyes aside, they look nothing alike. That chap reminds me of Van Pelt from "Jumanji" film. Fred's face is kinda like bear.

I kinda think they look like brothers, or maybe half brothers in that pic. But it might just be weed talking :lol

Yeah, Fred does look like a bear though.

Well, if sharing bags under eyes=half-brothers, there'll be extended fam.

Mike Love lookalike spotted in the wild earlier today at Costco:

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Wow

I remember thinking this actor who played a police officer in The Dark Knight looked a lot like Brian.

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His name is Keith Szarabajka.

Just a reminder of the author/prankster and Found Footage Festival co-founder Nick Prueher who appeared on the Kimmel show, looking like Mike's doppelganger circa 1966:

(https://i.imgur.com/tJys9wQ.jpg)

This is pretty random, but I'm a casual friend of Nick's. After this was originally posted here a few years back, I let him know about it and he was pretty tickled. According to him the homage wasn't intentional; he just has a number of vintage/retro outfits and it just happened to gel that way that night.

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That is Brian

Mike Love, original hipster

Pictured with the late country music crooner Jim Ed Brown.

 I can see it a bit as well.

Amazing, isn't it? Seriously uncanny.

Standing next to "Brian" in that pic  is the guy who later did the voice of Mr. Ed.   Can I get a horse in here indeed.

That is really cool! He does good work with those found VHS tapes, that's right up my alley too and I thought I was the only one who was into that stuff, lol. He also stopped by a TV station which is pretty local to me when he and his partner were doing their feats of strength routine, but I don't think the station here filed a suit against them as another did... :)

I still cannot get over how uncanny it was to tune into Kimmel that night (and I don't usually watch Kimmel or the others unless there is a good musical guest), and see what looked for all the world like Mike's doppelganger.

Well at least it puts to rest the theory that Mike is/was a time traveler and found a way to hop from 1966 to 2012 and back again.  ;D

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Uncanny.

I have always thought Alec Baldwin resembled Brian, particularly young Alec as young Brian.

Whoa...Pretty uncanny!

https://filesofjerryblake.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/sign-of-the-wolf-edmund-cobb.jpg

!!!

Hm, you see "uncanny", "eerie", "whoa", "a lot" in these pics, folks? :brow

Completely agree!  I have always thought Alec Baldwin should be cast as Brian. 

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In the 1983 film "Stroker Ace", check out this guy in flannel who is a Scott Bennett lookalike, who briefly appears in a fight scene. Not sure the name of the actor.

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He looks a little like Bruce in that second picture too IMO.

It's good catch - he opened his mouth in dorky way, just like Bruce.

Bennett looks somewhat like blonde Jeff Beck (today's Jeff, not when he was young).

I've got another Brian look-alike for your consideration. I know his hairstyle doesn't - but otherwise methinks there is a striking resemblance to late 1980s Landy-era Brian.

Anyone agree?


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This is from a 1982 episode of CHiPs. The actor's name is Burke Byrnes. Other photos I've seen of him online have him looking quite different, but around this time I guess something in his face looks very Wilson-like to me.

Having recently watched the underrated Robert Altman oddball classic 1970 film, Brewster McCloud, I noticed an actor who looks a ton like Bruce Johnston. They look like brothers.

(The actor's name is William Baldwin, not to be confused with the William Baldwin whose bro Alec narrated an Al Jardine song).

Oddly enough, isn't Bruce's birth name Benjamin Baldwin?
 
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Also... randomly saw a guy sitting at a bar who - from the side - looked uncannily like BW.

Anyone agree?

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It's joke, right? That chap doesn't look like Bruce. Ditto random nobody doesn't look like Brian.

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Bittersweet-Insanity - looks like that image link didn't go thru properly, maybe try uploading at tinypic.com?

Maybe it's best that we can't see that pic. :)

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Whoah, I definitely see Brian in this dude. Who is he?

sheriff ben johnson

Agree. It's written in his shirt's the right chest.

Did the costume designer for old Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II get inspired by Brian's outfit in 1966 at a Pacific Ocean Park photoshoot?  :lol


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Biff is cool & funny. :3d Played by Thomas F. Wilson.

It went over my head when I first posted it that there's that extra level of Wilson connection  :lol