Famous characters in poetry and prose - Solved by Carnut, Tom_I, barrett, Oswald and OP

[Carnut]

Live and Let Die was a Roger Moore Bond flick. He was coaxed back for the dreadful Diamonds Are Forever, and, a dozen years later, for the almost as bad, thinly disguised Thunderball rehash, Never Say Never Again.

Thanks Otto.
It was late at night and I was sitting there thinking "now was it 'Diamonds are Forever' or 'Live and Let Die'?"  Of course I plumped for the wrong one...
I've edited my post and changed it to the correct film.

[Ray B.]

You're all beating around the bush I'd say.

Which is the actor, already identified here as one of the 15 characters, who also played another one and a half?
So, who, where and why?

It seems to me that it means: which one of the 15 "actors " whose picture appears in the puzzle played another "one and a half" of the characters that 'you've identified. Why go looking for James Bond, Maciste or any ambassador in Mexico? The list is simply: Philip Marlowe, PapaThorson, Lemmy Caution, Nick Charles, Dr. Mabuse, The Saint, Don Camillo, Mike Hammer, Batman, The Falcon and OSS 117. That's it.

Carnut found out that both Conway and Sanders had played The Falcon and The Saint. If he is right it must be one of them.

The question is not auto related.

Of course you may want to try and understand what I mean by "a half". You haven't yet.

[Carnut]

Well I thought I understood but maybe not...

I've already suggested the answer might be George Sanders because he played the Saint in a series of films and also the Falcon in half of a series of them whilst his brother Tom Conway played the Falcon in the other half.  But you've already dismissed that one!

So I'm still wracking my brains...

P.S. OK - so what I've said above is slightly different from what I said before in my Reply #94 as it relates to the series of films rather than playing the Falcon in just half a film...  So is that the answer?

[Ray B.]

The number of films in which he played a character doesn't matter.
He played The Saint: that makes one
He played The Falcon: that makes two.
Youre still missing the "half". (... try and understand what I mean by "a half"....)

[Carnut]

The number of films in which he played a character doesn't matter.
He played The Saint: that makes one
He played The Falcon: that makes two.
Youre still missing the "half". (... try and understand what I mean by "a half"....)

The Falcon's brother?
In "The Falcon's Brother" but for half the film before the original Falcon played by George Sanders got bumped off.  He was then The Falcon for the remaining half of the film.  That would make him Tom Conway.

[Carnut]

Or maybe this one is more likely:

Still Tom Conway, but the 3rd Falcon movie ("The Falcon Takes Over") was in fact the very first film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely" - except the Philip Marlowe part was played by The Falcon - Tom Conway!

So is that half a Philip Marlowe?

In other words Tom Conway could be said to have played The Saint, The Falcon and (half) Philip Marlowe because that was really the character he was playing...?

[Ray B.]

Or maybe this one is more likely:

Still Tom Conway, but the 3rd Falcon movie ("The Falcon Takes Over") was in fact the very first film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely" - except the Philip Marlowe part was played by The Falcon - Tom Conway!

So is that half a Philip Marlowe?

In other words Tom Conway could be said to have played The Saint, The Falcon and (half) Philip Marlowe because that was really the character he was playing...?

THAT'S IT! Well thought. Except that, if you check, it's George Sanders and not Tom Conway in 'The Falcon Takes Over'.
Yoy just got entangled by all this Falcon's and Falcon's brother stuff.  You got me so mixed up myself that I don't want to ever hearabout it as long as I live.

I am posting a picture from the film with Sanders and a girl (the Ann Riordan character I guess) in a car. I didn't add it to the puzzle because I believe that it's her car and not his in the story.

This makes 'Farewell My Lovely' the most adapted of Chandler's novels; this one, then the Edward Dmytryk film (titled 'Murder My Sweet'), with Dick Powell,  then the Mitchum film that we had in this puzzle.

[Ray B.]

The final count, then

Carnut: 9 points
Tom_I: 4 points
barrett, Oswald, Otto Puzzell: 1 point

[Otto Puzzell]

Closely associated: he drove it in both, and as you can see in the B&W photo, the dash hadn't changed that much in 10 years.

A beautiful period pic, before the 'facelift'.

[Ray B.]