History Main / FakeShemp

* Creator/PaulWalker was killed in a car accident off the set of ''Film/FuriousSeven'', so his remaining scenes used CGI and doubles as well as the footage made before his death [[CharacterOutlivesActor to retire his character without killing him off]].

See also TheDeadRiseToAdvertise, which often overlaps with this trope.

** Since the early 2000's, the band has had Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer wearing Ace and Peter's makeup and costumes. This has been a BrokenBase among their fans.

** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', James Earl Jones and Jonathan Taylor Thomas are credited for reprising their roles as Mufasa and young Simba in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. In reality, it's done entirely through archived sound. Thomas' case [[JustifiedTrope works well]] as the audio recycling was done only for a flashback adult Simba has of Mufasa's death--his only line is the BigNo, by the way.

* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'' has a scene where the creators had a specific location in mind, and a narrow window to shoot it in, during which the required actors weren't available. Thankfully, the scene was brief and just required three characters, who were already established as wearing identical, face-concealing cloaks, to walk up some steps together: The solution was to film the co-director climbing the steps in costume alone from a distance, then compositing the shot so she looked like three identically dressed people walking in single file.

So you pull off something dicey: use a stand-in, and [[FilmingForEasyDub don't show their face]]. You can combine this with a little StockFootage to improve the effect. Not bad, as long as the audience doesn't get wise. In more recent years, creating SerkisFolk that can pass for the real deal has been tried, but it's [[UncannyValley rarely passable]] (and ethically dubious).

* This is how ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'' presents itself as a retro throwback [[spoiler: before the characters are thrown into the “real world”]] . It mixes the audio of Walt Disney, Marcellite Gardner and Billy Bletcher[[note]] who died in 1966, 1993 and 1979 respectively[[/note]] with bits and pieces provided by Russi Taylor and Will Ryan[[note]] Mickey’s dialogue is entirely recycled from old recordings of Walt[[/note]] to bring the oldest versions of these character to life as a “lost short” from the earliest days of Mickey Mouse.

* For copyright issues, the Italian dub of ''Anime/MazingerZ'' covered only the first half of the series. In 2015, when the series was released on DVD for the first time, they voiced the second half of the series, obviously replacing the entire cast... except that, when [[Anime/GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]] appears in the final episode to help Koji, they used edited voice clips from the dub of ''Great Mazinger'' in order to keep his original voice actor, who actually died two years before.

* Music/{{Versailles}} bassist Jasmine You [[AuthorExistenceFailure died]] of an undisclosed illness during the production of ''Jubilee'', the band's second album. While he had already recorded bass parts for some of the songs on the album, it was still incomplete; lead guitarist Music/{{Hizaki}} filled in the missing bass parts.

Every once in a while, you want to bring back a guest star or former recurring character, and you want this so much that the fact that the appropriate actor isn't available (i.e. unwilling, busy, or [[AuthorExistenceFailure dead]]) doesn't stop you.

* In ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' and ''Anime/Persona3TheMovie'', Igor's lines in the Japanese version are all reused recordings from the [[{{VideoGame/Persona4}} original]] [[{{VideoGame/Persona3}} games]] due to the death of his actor Isamu Tanonaka.

* ''{{Film/Carrie 2013}}'' had to deal with the lead being played by then-underage actress Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz - who thus had less time to be on set than everyone else. There are a lot of shots of Carrie talking to other characters while far away, because they had to film around Chloe's limited schedule. Director Kimberly Peirce usually stood in for actors to deliver their lines to her when she was off set.

* ''The PhilHendrie Show'' subverts this, as the concept is to interview fake "guests" who are actually characters voiced by the host. Gullible callers are then allowed to interact with the "guests" who they believe to be real people. Also, during some non-call-in segments, Phil "interviews" various celebrities, but gives them arbitrary voices, such as voicing Martha Stewart as an AngryBlackMan. He did once play a "guest" who was supposedly Los Angeles Laker Brian Grant, who outraged listeners by complaining about Vlade Divac's preference for "stinky Lithuanian cheese", but was asked to stop because listeners who did not get the joke were getting angry at [[YourCostumeNeedsWork the real Brian Grant]].

* In ''Videogame/StreetFighterTheMovie'', the late Creator/RaulJulia is credited as M. Bison, the character he played in [[Film/StreetFighter the film]]. In reality, Juliá's likeness only appears in the arcade attract mode (using [[StockFootage recycled footage from the movie]]) and character select screen, as he was far too ill at the time to do any stunt filming for the game. The character's actual in-game animations were performed by Darko Tuscan, Juliá's stunt double, with Bison's trademark CommissarCap used to partially obscure his face.

* The second ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}'' game had Gary Coleman as a guest star. Gary returned in the ''Paradise Lost'' DLC, but since that game was made long after he died, Gary used recycled clips, with all the plot-relevant lines being relayed by his DragonInChief [=McWillis=].

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''

* In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', most of the heroes the team had encountered in the past ({{ComicBook/Luke Cage|Hero For Hire}}, Comicbook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/TheFalcon, Comicbook/BlackWidow, Comicbook/WarMachine, and so on) [[GondorCallsForAid returned to help fight]] ComicBook/{{Galactus}}. With a few exceptions, almost ''none'' of the returning heroes had any lines, as there's no way Marvel could have afforded to pay that many actors.

* George [=McFly=] in the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' sequels did this, TheOtherDarrin, and FilmingForEasyDub to get around the absence of Creator/CrispinGlover. This trope was invoked by disguising TheOtherDarrin, Jeffrey Weissman, with sunglasses, out of focus shots, and even having him spend the entire "future" portion of the film "inverted", in which George was actually upside-down. Where the filmmakers got in trouble was with the recycling of stock footage of Glover from the previous film—this led to a lawsuit from Glover, who claimed they had misappropriated his likeness. Though the suit was settled quietly before its court date, the Screen Actors Guild rewrote their rules on stock footage as a result of this.

* This is how ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'' presents itself as a retro throwback [[spoiler: before the characters are thrown into the “real world”]] . It mixes the audio of Walt Disney, Marcellite Gardner and Billy Bletcher[[note]] who died in 1966, 1993 and 1979 respectively[[/note]] with bits and pieces provided by Russi Taylor and Will Ryan[[note]] Mickey’s dialogue is entirely recycled from old recordings of Walt[[/note]] to bring the oldest versions of these character to life as a “lost short” from the earliest days of. Mickey Mouse.

* Hollywood screen legends such as Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/IngridBergman were "Shemped" in the movie ''Film/DeadMenDontWearPlaid''. Cheryl Smith bore a remarkable resemblance to Veronica Lake, but her role was limited to playing the back of Lake's head.

-->'''Website/TheAgonyBooth:''' And let me tell you, this guy is portraying Jagger to a T. Especially when he wanders off in silence, his face stiffly pointed away from the camera. That’s totally Mick!

* Creator/HeathLedger died in the middle of filming ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'', so director Creator/TerryGilliam ended up using Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/JudeLaw, and Creator/ColinFarrell all for the same character. This was a rare example that actively called attention to it and provided an in-story reason. When Ledger died, he had finished filming the "real world" scenes, but not the fantasy sequences. The solution? Establish that going through the mirror will sometimes change a person's appearance, then have his character played by a different actor each time he goes through. And given that [[spoiler:his character turns out to be a duplicitous con man]], it not only works, it actually adds another layer of symbolism to the fantasy scenes.

** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Creator/NataliePortman was unavailable for reshoots. The ending kissing scene instead had Creator/ChrisHemsworth's wife, actress Elsa Pataky, stand in as Comicbook/{{Jane|Foster}} wearing Jane's costume and a wig, with film wizardry hiding this.

** In the same way, Creator/MarlonBrando reprised his role as Jor-El in ''Film/SupermanReturns'' from beyond the grave, making use of stunningly realistic CGI and recycled and unused dialogue from the Richard Donner movies.

* When ''Film/SupermanII'' was turned over to Richard Lester, Creator/GeneHackman refused to work with the new director, so some scenes feature a body double (watch him climb down the ice in the Fortress of Solitude... backwards) and a number of his lines were dubbed by a (not very convincing) voice double. All shots with the real actor were filmed under Richard Donner.

* During the Tybalt and Mercutio fight scene of ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet1968'', John [=McEnery=] was sick for one day of shooting. According to Michael York's autobiography, the shadow of Mercutio as he throws a sword at Tybalt's feet was Franco Zeffirelli standing in for him.

* ''Film/TheGoldenCompass'' was shredded in editing in order to reduce its runtime, infamously having the entire final act of the film removed. One of the side effects of this would have been Nicole Kidman's character, Mrs Coulter, simply disappearing from the story. This was evidently combatted by inserting a quick shot of a stand-in performer in an unconvincing wig accompanied by a looped line of Kidman's dialogue to signal the character's exit during the film's hurried conclusion.

** In their TV movie, ''Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park'', there is at least one scene where Ace is portrayed by his stunt double.

* Actually very common in music, as any given song may actually contain one band member overdubbing several instruments, or parts played by hired studio musicians or uncredited friends of the band (a famous example being Eric Clapton guesting on the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"). An essay in the book ''Kill Your Idols'' points out that on Music/TheRollingStones' supposed greatest album, ''Music/ExileOnMainSt.'', most of the band members were trotting in and out of rehab during the recording, and that very few of the parts were played by actual Rolling Stones.

* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'' has a scene where the creators had a specific location in mind, and a narrow window to shoot it in, during which the required actors weren't available. Thankfully, the scene was brief and just required three characters, who were already established as wearing identical, face-concealing cloaks, to walk up some steps together: The solution was to film the co-director climbing the steps in costume alone, then compositing the shot so she looked like three identically dressed people walking in single file.

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* When Music/MichaelJackson was unable to fully film the music video for "Who Is It" due to tour commitments, E'Casnova Evans (who previously stood in for Jackson on-camera in ''FilmBackToTheFuturePartII'') stood in for Jackson in scenes where his face wasn't fully visible.

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** Creator/JaredLeto, who'd previously played Comicbook/TheJoker in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'', did not return for the SpinOff, ''Film/{{Birds of Prey|2020}}'' (due to how his character was victim of ExecutiveMeddling in ''Suicide Squad''). Instead, {{Flashback}} scenes showing the Joker were filmed by using Lo-Fi artist Johnny Goth as a stand-in, with his face deliberately never shown to the camera. Leto did return as the Joker afterwards however, in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' (interviews have made it clear that he trusted in Creator/ZackSnyder's creative freedom).