The Cohen Clone Collection
Since September 2007, I’ve casually posted about Leonard Cohen lookalikes, initially reporting on resemblances listed by others and later contributing an original separated at birth set or two of my own. As of today (March 15, 2009), there have been nine such entries, some of which include more than one celebrity that bears a likeness to Cohen.
This page is a collection of such posts, both those already published and any which might be added at a later date. The posts are listed below, beginning with the oldest. as numbered headings, each of which is a link to the entry itself.
Two explanatory notes are necessary:
- Only the pictorial representations of the lookalikes are shown here. In many, and perhaps most, cases, the explanations and narratives are more significant than the graphics.
- The phrase, “Noted at,” indicates the websites where I found the lookalikes, which is not necessarily where they were first noted. Those entries without “Noted at” are lookalikes that occurred to me de novo.
1. The Leonard Cohen (Separated At) Birth Day
Noted at Spinner
Leonard Cohen (left) and Dustin Hoffman (right)
Noted at newstreamlinedmodel at Archinect Forum
Bernard Tschumi
Noted at AtEaseWeb Forum
Mr. Spock
Noted at Review: Keren Ann
Hope Sandova
Noted at Joseph Skibell’s “I noticed a strange thing” Slide Show
2. Another Leonard Cohen Look-alike Nominee
Noted at Wonkette: Dennis Kucinich Is Too Cool For Your Stupid American Presidency
Dennis Kucinich (leftt) and Leonard Cohen (right)
3. Leonard Cohen, Neil Diamond To Share Twin Bill
4. Leonard Cohen & Joe Namath – Parallels Between The Poet & The Passer
5. Leonard Cohen + Pineal Glands = Neil Gaiman?
Noted at Okay, NOW What the Hell?!
6. Legions Of Leonard Cohen Lookalikes
Leonard Cohen: 1960s
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Leonard Cohen: 1975
| http://www.myheritage.com/collage |
Leonard Cohen: 2006
| http://www.myheritage.com/collag |
7. Leonard Cohen & X-Files Cigarette-Smoking Man – Lookalikes Or More?
Noted at Two Gray Rooms:
X-Files Cigarette-Smoking Man (upper left) and Leonard Cohen (other 3 photos)
Cigarettes smoked by Cigarette-smoking man (left) and Leonard Cohen (right)
8. Is Leonard Cohen Dick Tracy’s Little Brother?
Leonard Cohen (74) and Dick Tracy (77)
9. Scottish Entry To Leonard Cohen Lookalike List
Noted at Separated At Birth
10. Brit Doppelgänger Of 1960s Leonard Cohen Found
The resemblance between British music producer and performer, Mark Ronson, and the 1960s version of Leonard Cohen was first noted by Ruth.
Mark Ronson and Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen and Mark Ronson
11. X Looks Like Leonard Cohen
Today, we welcome new members to the Heck Of A Guy Hall Of Leonard Cohen Resemblance, otherwise known as the Leonard Cohen Lookalikes, Doppelgangers, Twins, Copies, Doubles, & Clones Separated At Birth page from TotallyLooksLike.com, who have made the classic Leonard Cohen matches to Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, and Leonard Nimoy that have been previously listed on the Heck Of A Guy site.
Leonard Cohen (left) and Dustin Hoffman (right)
Al Pacino (left) and Leonard Cohen (right)
Leonard Cohen (left) and Leonard Nimoy (right)
The new Cohen clones found at TotallyLooksLike.com include fellow icon, Bob Dylan.
Leonard Cohen (left) and Bob Dylan (right)
The TotallyLooksLike.com panel also sees a resemblance between Leonard Cohen and Alan Rickman, the actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series.
Alan Rickman (left) and Leonard Cohen (right)
And, TotallyLooksLike.com has not one but two comparisons of Leonard Cohen to Adam Sandler.
Leonard Cohen (left) and Adam Sandler (right)
Leonard Cohen (left) and Adam Sandler (right)
At LeonardCohenForum, Womanfromaroom suggests “young Leonard and young Dustin Hoffman look at least like brothers,” a notion MT Baldy supports with these album covers.
Meanwhile, Climb2Safety posits a resemblance between Cohen and Ron Paul.
Leonard Cohen (left) and Ron Paul (right)
At the same site, Actually suggests Anthony Bourdain as a Leonard lookalike.
Anthony Bourdain
Actually also offers this composite of Leonard Cohen (top left), Dustin Hoffman (top right), and Al Pacino (both bottom photos), noting that “… Mr. Cohen always had (and still has) the best nasolabial folds. Period.”
somewhat_nifty, another LeonardCohenForumite, points out that “that Leonard in the 90s is a dead ringer for Arthur Petrelli from Heroes (played by Robert Forster).”
Leonard Cohen (left) and Robert Forster (right)burningviolin
burningviolin is the first, to my knowledge, to offer Telly Savalas as a Cohen doppelganger.
Telly Savalas
12. Almost Like Lost Brothers – Pat Martino And Leonard Cohen
Noted at CeArt
Pat Martino (left) and Leonard Cohen (right)
