Horatio Gooding III

During late 1993, a little known actor, Horatio Gooding III, arrived in NYC to work on Broadway. He had the surprising resemblance to one of America's hottest young actors often stunning crowds of people on the street with the resemblance to his older brother.

In his first performance as the lead role in the adaptation of Yuri Ormonov's "Forever My Big Bear" Horatio shined. He played Boris Yeltsin, Russia's then prime minister, whose obsession for world dominance was manifesting itself as a birth mark world map on his balding head. The often dry comedy set Manhattan's Broadway community on fire but before long Horatio was replaced with an actor that producers felt could draw a crowd to accommodate all the Buzz.

In the early part of 2004 Thomas Haden Church took over and Horatio's overnight success was gone. Short on money, he approached his brother with a scheme to "make Cuba everywhere." At first he thought that his brother's role as Boris Yeltsin and subsequent failure was leading him to spread the word of communism through a picturesque view of Cuba. Horatio soon made it apparent that it was far more personal than that.

By the spring of 1994, no one could understand how Cuba Gooding Jr. could be seen at a musical production in West Hollywood at the same time he was filming in North Africa, and frankly, no one cared. He became known not only as the "hardest working man in Hollywood" and "Hollywood's Teddy Bear" but also as "Double Trouble" because he seemed to have the energy and ability to do the work of two men. Little did anyone know that it was in fact two men.

Cuba Gooding Jr. and his younger brother Horatio worked relentlessly throughout the late 1990's filming 24 hours a day and staring simultaneously in 17 different films. Today, their work is virtually indistinguishable from one another, proving that both brothers had been stars in their own right. In the preceding trailer, Horatio Gooding III plays Bed Doyle in this witty and surprisingly "real" adaptation of Paul Hogan's self produced masterpiece, Lightning Jack.

A recent picture of the two together with the cast of Snow Dogs