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Actors Playing Their Parent in a Movie

Actors who played their real-life parent or grandparent or other relative in a movie. Not included are actors playing fictional characters, even if it is a younger version of their actual parents.

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  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Frontier Marshal
  • Lillian Russell
  • Wilson
  • The Private Life of an Actor
  • Look for the Silver Lining
  • The Story of Will Rogers
  • The Eddie Cantor Story
  • Zulu
  • Star!
  • The Day of the Locust
  • Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
  • Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
  • GoodFellas
  • The Mambo Kings
  • Chaplin
  • What Are You Gonna Do, Sai Fung?
  • Baadasssss!
  • Miracle
  • Walk the Line
  • Munich
  • Notorious
  • The Dance of Reality
  • Unbroken
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • Joy
  • All Three of Us
  • Endless Poetry
  • Stars
  • Mrs Wilson
  • Blonde
  • Society of the Snow
  • The Saint of Second Chances
  • Michael