Actors You Didn't Know Had An Identical Twin

"He's 20 minutes older than I am and he looks every minute of it," Bonar Bain told the Ottawa Citizen in 1974, taking a swipe at his "older" brother Conrad, star of TV's "Maude" and "Diff'rent Strokes."

The two Bain boys were dedicated to the dramatic arts program while attending high school, taking turns each year at playing the lead in the play. When Conrad headed to New York to advance his acting career, Bonar chose a different, more stable path back in Edmonton, having a successful career in the airline, rental car and parking businesses. However, that didn't stop Bonar from taking an occasional part.

When the writers of "Maude" drummed up an episode involving the escaped-convict twin of Conrad's character Arthur, Conrad lamented, "I knew we were in trouble. The scriptwriters had my brother as a sex maniac." In the end, Conrad played both parts and Bonar "only came in for two lines at the end when he gets caught, but everybody thought it was him the whole time."

A similar experience happened on the "The Van Drummonds" episode of "Strokes," where Conrad played their female Dutch cousin Anna Van Drummond, and in the scenes where Philip appeared alongside her, Bonar acted as a stand-in.

Bonar went solo a few other times, most memorably spoofing Conrad as alien double agent "Hank Bain" on "SCTV," appearing in a sketch called "Different Folks." Back in the 1940s, Conrad was to be an extra in a Canadian war propaganda film, but fell ill. Bonar stepped in for his brother, and remembered: "The casting director took one look at me and said, 'What difference does it make?'"

Bonar passed away in 2005, at age 82. Conrad followed in 2013, at age 89.

[Fun fact: Bonar once had a radio show in Edmonton with Robert Goulet.]