Re: Actors who played a same character role in Columbo and something else
This is about a suspect not a killer, but Brett Halsey plays a man who's a very good suspect in DEATH LENDS A HAND because of his involvement with the female victim, and he plays a similar part in the movie THE GIRL IN LOVERS' LANE (which most of us know as an MST3K episode).
Re: Actors who played a same character role in Columbo and something else
There's Bradford Dillman in THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE and the movie COMPULSION (about Leopold and Loeb). In the one story he's part of a faked kidnapping that ends in a murder (his murder) and in the other one he's also part of a faked kidnapping that ends in one.
Re: Actors who played a same character role in Columbo and something else
When Patrick O'Neal gets slapped disdainfully by Forrest Tucker in "Blueprint For Murder" it literally duplicates an identical scene in the movie "In Harms Way" when Kirk Douglas does the same thing to O'Neal. Same case of the more "uncouth" character showing what he thinks of the intellectual know-it-all.