Somehow, don’t ask me how, I came across a celebrity impersonator/look-a-like agency in the United Kingdom called Fake Faces. Some of the stand-ins either look nothing like the real person, or are simply wearing the costume of the celebrity’s most famous character, yet bearing little resemblance otherwise.
However, many…in fact most…are very good indeed, almost having me do a triple take. Here’s a few spot-on impersonators of some of our favorite celebrities.
Eddie Murphy and Sean Connery:
It’s England, so they’ve gotta have The Beatles (George, Paul, John, and Ringo):
They have a group photo of the George, Paul, and Ringo impersonators with a guy who looks nothing like John Lennon at all. Again, these guys look like the older, modern day Beatles. Perhaps they are insinuating that John Lennon would be fat and wearing a French beret if he were still alive?
For fun, here’s a guy who is supposed to be Billy Connolly. He has the expression and the hair down, but he seems to be constantly dying his goatee different colors. Why?
There are reported to be over 8000 amateur “lookalikes” in the UK (possibly many more in the USA) But only a very few real “dead ringer” professional lookalike-soundalike celebrity doubles exist around the world.
Hello Sven-Goran lookalike, I’ll acknowledge my wording could be misconstrued. I did edit it to have it sounded as I intended. Which is that there are some mostly good ones. The Ricky Gervais guy is uncanny, as is the Eddie Murphy. I picked the Beatles, Sean Connery, and Billy Connolly to use as examples, because we are huge fans of them, and talk about them all constantly on our show. Thanks for looking us up.
This John Lennon impersonator, Gary Gibson, is probably the best:
http://www.gibsonlennonelvis.co.uk/