One that is more commonly known is that Buddy Ebsen (aka Jed Clampett of Beverley Hillbillies fame) originally played the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz until he was hospitalised as a result of inhaling aluminium paste used on his skin and the role was recast.
If we're doing 80s children's shows, it was only last year I realised that bane of my childhood dreams, Charn from Through The Dragons Eye, was only David Bloody Collings
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