Recurring Actors
Smith often casts the same actors for multiple characters in the universe, sometimes even in the same film. This is most notable in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, in which several actors play multiple characters from earlier View Askewniverse films. Some of the more notable include:
| Actor/Actress | Clerks | Mallrats | Chasing Amy | Dogma | Clerks: The Animated Series | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Clerks II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Mewes | Jay | ||||||
| Kevin Smith | Silent Bob Writer |
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| Director | Executive Producer | Director | |||||
| Editor unnamed character in the Independent Feature Film Market cut from the Clerks X DVD |
Editor | Editor | |||||
| Scott Mosier | Producer | Executive Producer | Producer | ||||
| Editor | Editor | Editor | |||||
| Angry hockey-playing customer, Willam Black | Roddy (cameo) |
Tracer collector | Bus passenger Second Unit Director |
Extras wrangler, William Black Second Unit Director |
Concerned Father | ||
| Walt Flanagan | Woollen cap smoker, egg man, offended customer, cat-admiring bitter customer | Walt the Fanboy | Woollen cap smoker | ||||
| Bryan Johnson | Steve-Dave | ||||||
| Brian O'Halloran | Dante Hicks | Gil Hicks | Jim Hicks | Grant Hicks | Dante Hicks | ||
| Jeff Anderson | Randal Graves | Gun shop clerk | Randal Graves | ||||
| Vincent Pereira | Hockey goalie, engagement-savvy customer | Startled pinball player | Quick Stop customer | ||||
| Ernest O'Donnell | Rick Derris | Bystander | Cop | ||||
| John Willyung | Dante's killer (alternate ending) | Cohee London | Passerby | ||||
| David Klein | Hunting-cap smoking boy, low-IQ video store customer, hubcap searching customer, angry mourner | Bald comic fan | |||||
| Director of Photography | Director of Photography | ||||||
| Virginia Smith | Animal masturbator customer | Comic-Con woman | |||||
| Grace Smith | Milk maid | Milk maid | |||||
| Joey Lauren Adams | Alyssa Jones (Clerks: The Lost Scene) | Gwen Turner | Alyssa Jones | Alyssa Jones | |||
| Jason Lee | Brodie Bruce | Banky Edwards | Azrael | Brodie Bruce/Banky Edwards | Lance Dowds | ||
| Ben Affleck | Shannon Hamilton | Holden McNeil | Bartleby | Holden McNeil/himself | Gawking guy | ||
| Ethan Suplee | Willam Black | Fan | Golgothan (voice) | Teen #2 | |||
| Shannen Doherty | Rene Mosier | Herself | |||||
| Renee Humphrey | Tricia Jones | Tricia Jones | |||||
| Malcolm Ingram | Creepy staring guy | Creepy staring guy | Pissing customer | ||||
| Dwight Ewell | Hooper X | Kan the gang leader | Hooper X | ||||
| Matt Damon | Shawn Owen (TV executive #2) | Loki | Himself | ||||
| Dan Etheridge | Priest | Plug | Deputy | ||||
| Chris Rock | Rufus | Chaka Luther King | |||||
| George Carlin | Cardinal Glick | Blowjob-giving hitchhiker | |||||
| Paul Dini | George Lucas Writer |
Bluntman & Chronic Loader/Clapper | |||||
| Alanis Morissette | God | God | |||||
| Jennifer Schwalbach Smith | Missy | Emma | |||||
| Harley Quinn Smith | Baby Silent Bob | Kid in window | |||||
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