Most acting roles
- Who
- Jan Leighton
- What
- 3395 total number
- Where
- United States
- When
- September 2000
The greatest recorded number of theatrical, film and television roles is 3,395 since 1951 by Jan Leighton of New York City, USA.
Most often playing Einstein and Sherlock Holmes, he owns over 100 pairs of shoes, over 200 wigs and hats, over 70 pairs of glasses, five Santa suits and 36 pipes. Most recently he has been seen as George Washington for 'George' magazine and Franklin Delano Roosevelt for a Chinese government film.
Among the characters he has performed are: Patton, Mark Twain, Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Inspector Clouseu, Uncle Sam, Einstein, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Sherlock Holmes, Margaret Thatcher, Santa, Count Dracula, Toulouse Lautrec, Napoleon, Rembrandt, Aristotle, Stradivarious, General Custer, General MacArthur, Jack Benny, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Watson, John Wayne, Fidel Castro, Harpo Marx, Gandhi, Alfred Hitchcock and Pope John Paul II.
Among the characters he has performed are: Patton, Mark Twain, Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Inspector Clouseu, Uncle Sam, Einstein, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Sherlock Holmes, Margaret Thatcher, Santa, Count Dracula, Toulouse Lautrec, Napoleon, Rembrandt, Aristotle, Stradivarious, General Custer, General MacArthur, Jack Benny, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Watson, John Wayne, Fidel Castro, Harpo Marx, Gandhi, Alfred Hitchcock and Pope John Paul II.