If you're familiar with both "Mad Men" and "L.A. Noire", you've likely noticed that they share a few actors, most obviously Aaron Staton, who plays Ken Cosgrove in Mad Men, and is L.A. Noire's protagonist, Cole Phelps. Some have noticed there's a few more familiar faces, myself included. After playing through the entire game, I was sure there were more Mad Men actors than most people knew.
I searched LAN's IMDB page, checking each actor for appearances in Mad Men. There's more matches than I expected, with twenty different actors appearing in multiple Mad Men episodes, and a further thirty with single-episode appearances.
Below is a list of those actors, sorted first by number of Mad Men appearances, then by billing order in L.A. Noire.
Actor | Mad Men character (# of appearances) | L.A. Noire character |
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Aaron Staton | Ken Cosgrove (52) | Cole Phelps |
Rich Sommer | Harry Crane (52) | John Cunningham |
Vincent Kartheiser | Pete Campbell (52) | Walter Clemens |
Michael Gladis | Paul Kinsey (39) | Dudley Lynch |
Alexa Alemanni | Allison (20) | Elizabeth Eberly |
Audrey Wasilewski | Anita Olson Respola (7) | Jennifer Horgan | Myra Turley | Katherine Olson (6) | Barbara Lapenti |
Andy Umberger | Dr. Arnold Wayne (6) | Dr. Malcolm Carruthers |
La Monde Byrd | Hollis (6) | Nat Spencer |
Ryan Cutrona | Gene Hofstadt / Gene Driscoll (6) | Police Chief William Worrell |
Patrick Fischler | Jimmy Barrett (4) | Mickey Cohen |
Joseph Culp | Archie Whitman (4) | Walter Robbins |
Rich Hutchman | Bud Campbell (3) | Benny Cluff |
Jerry O'Donnell | Gerry Respola (3) | Chuck Hadley |
Mark Kelly | Dale (3) | Patrolman Fred Wallis | < /tr>
Kate Norby | Carol McCardy (2) | Lorna Pattison |
Carla Gallo | Karen Ericson (2) | Gloria Bishop |
Adria Tennor | Joyce Darling (2) | Joanna Alford |
John Douglas Williams | Warren McKenna (2) | Harry the Bookmaker |
Miranda Lilley | Judy Campbell (2) | Darcy Connors |
Randy Oglesby | Walter Veith (1) | Capt. Lachlan McKelty |
JD Cullum | George Casey (1) | Ray Pinker |
James Immekus | Charlie (1) | Hank Merrill |
Jim Abele | Jack Konig (1) | Curtis Benson |
Brian Krause | Kess (1) | Clem Feeney |
Scott Michael Morgan | Ralph Stubbs (1) | Don Steffens |
Hal Landon Jr. | Achilles (1) | Oswald Jacobs |
Jonathan Runyon | Dan Lindstrom (1) | Cliff Harrison |
Barbara Kerr Condon | Mrs. Clifford Lyman (1) | Mrs. Beverly Evestram |
Trever O'Brien | Doug (1) | James Jessop |
Frank Novak | Curtis (1) | Joe Nesco |
John Thaddeus | Driver (1) | Steven Bigelow |
Akie Kotabe | Akira Takahashi (1) | Japanese Soldier |
Ron Perkins | Jim Hartsdale (1) | Fred Nicholson |
Randolph Adams | Bullpen (1) | Steven Hendricks |
Andy Hoff | Charlie Fiddich (1) | Lieutenant Taylor |
Kevin Scott Allen | Farmer 2 (1) | Arthur Moss/Various |
Katherine Boecher | Annie (1) | Audrey Gill |
Michael Dempsey | Marty Hasselbach (1) | Detective Sergeant Fnis Brown |
Joanne Baron | Saleslady (1) | Elinor Hopkin |
Michael Yurchak | Dennis Mitchell (1) | Patrolman Emmet Campbell |
Jim Giordano | Ronnie Santorella (1) | Frank Zefferelli |
Brian Catalano | Man 1 (1) | Morris Greenfield |
Kate Connor | Nancy Wallace (1) | Margaret Black |
Daniel Kountz | Gary Osborn (1) | Francis Watkins |
Trisha LaFache | Lola (1) | ? |
Kiersten Lyons | Charlotte (1) | Karen Hiltscher |
Jay Seals | Marvin Woodman (1) | Daniel Wellington |
Dusty Sorg | Convention Guy (1) | Lefty Roberts |
Karimah Westbrook | Sharon (1) | Female Pedestrian 1 |
Missing from both IMDB and the game booklet is the character Stuart Barnes, seen in "Buyer Beware". I'm sure it's Patrick Cavanaugh, who plays Smitty Smith on Mad men.