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.