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Link those actors/actresses game

 
 
 
1. Cate Blanchett in the Lord of the Rings films with Christopher Lee.
2. Christopher Lee in Return from Witch Mountain with Bette Davis.

...hhhmmmm.....


Sylvestor Stallone and LeVar Burton

Brian
 
1. Sylvester Stallone was in Get Carter (2000 version) with Rachael Leigh Cook
2. Rachael Leigh Cook has been in multiple episodes of Perception with LeVar Burton

A pair of stars of the past: Ronald Colman and Ronald Reagan
 
1. Ronald Coleman was in The Story of Mankind with Virginia Mayo
2. Virginia Mayo was in She's Working Her Way Through College with Ronald Reagan

Next: Robert Dowdell and Robert Duvall
 
1. Robert Dowdell appeared in an episode of the 1960s series Stoney Burke with Robert Duvall

Next: Chris Penn and Chris Pratt
 
1. Chris Penn was in Footloose with John Lithgow
2. John Lithgow was in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension with Dan Hedaya
3. Dan Hedaya was in Strangers With Candy with Chris Pratt

Next: Mickey Rourke and Mickey Dolenz
 
1. Micky Dolenz was in Deadfall with Nicolas Cage
2. Nicolas Cage was in Drive Angry with Amber Heard
3. Amber Heard was in Machete Kills with Jessica Alba
4. Jessica Alba was in Sin City with Mickey Rourke

Next: Tyrone Power and Antonio Banderas
 
1. Tyrone Power was in The Mark of Zorro with Basil Rathbone
2. Basil Rathbone was in The Black Cat with Alan Ladd
3. Alan Ladd was in Santiago with L.Q. Jones
4. L.Q. Jones was in The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas


Next: Shirley Temple and Quvenzhané Wallis
 
1. Shirley Temple was in Fort Apache with John Wayne
2. John Wayne was in Rio Bravo with Angie Dickinson
3. Angie Dickinson was in Sabrina (1995 version) with Paul Giamatti
4. Paul Giamatti was in 12 Years a Slave with Quvenzhané Wallis

Next: Gary Cooper and Chris Cooper
 
1. Gary Cooper was in High Noon with Lloyd Bridges
2. Lloyd Bridges was in Blown Away with Jeff Bridges
3. Jeff Bridges was in Seabiscuit with Chris Cooper

Next: Maureen O'Sullivan and Erik Per Sullivan
 
1. Maureen O' Sullivan was in Hannah and Her Sisters with Michael Caine
2. Michael Caine was in The Cider House Rules with Erik Per Sullivan

Next: Robert Ryan and Mickey Rourke
 
1. Robert Ryan was in Day of the Outlaw with Elisha Cook, Jr.
2. Elisha Cook, Jr. was in 1941 with Mickey Rourke

Next: Paul Giamatti and Ingrid Bergman
 
1. Paul Giamatti was in Sabrina (1995 version) with Julia Ormond
2. Julia Ormond was in First Knight with Sean Connery
3. Sean Connery was in Murder on the Orient Express with Ingrid Bergman

Next: Clark Gable and Mel Gibson
 
1. Clark Gable was in Run Silent Run Deep with Brad Dexter
2. Brad Dexter was in The Magnificent Seven with James Coburn
3. James Coburn was in Maverick with Mel Gibson

Next: Fay Wray and Tilda Swinton
 
Just wondering here---

How do all of you manage to come up with these connections? Whenever I have tried, I have gone on to IMDB, but have been unable to get any links in a short number of steps (2 or 3 or 4, say). Do you make these steps just in your own memory and know the actors/actresses well enough in your head to connect them, or do you go to some other website for assistance? You all seem to get the actors/actresses in just a few steps or so, which is nice to see.

Brian
 
for the ones i answered -I just used IMDB, but I have a decent store of worthless movie trivia knowledge that helps guide me. I usually have two tabs open for each actor so I can work forwards & backwards. If the two actors are from different generations, then I try to focus on finding young actors in the earlier actors' movies and vice versa for the later stars. Also some dumb luck helps.
 
I try to do it based on my knowledge of films. Which is why I rarely ever get a connection.
 
Brian63 said:
Just wondering here---

How do all of you manage to come up with these connections? Whenever I have tried, I have gone on to IMDB, but have been unable to get any links in a short number of steps (2 or 3 or 4, say). Do you make these steps just in your own memory and know the actors/actresses well enough in your head to connect them, or do you go to some other website for assistance? You all seem to get the actors/actresses in just a few steps or so, which is nice to see.

Brian
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The easiest way is to click some of the movie links of one of the actors until you find somebody famous. Then click the links of the other actor until you find somebody famous. Then those two famous people can usually be tied together fairly easily.
 
Brian63 said:
Just wondering here---

How do all of you manage to come up with these connections? Whenever I have tried, I have gone on to IMDB, but have been unable to get any links in a short number of steps (2 or 3 or 4, say). Do you make these steps just in your own memory and know the actors/actresses well enough in your head to connect them, or do you go to some other website for assistance? You all seem to get the actors/actresses in just a few steps or so, which is nice to see.

Brian
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What I do is similar to CJW's method--I will often open IMDB tabs for each actor and start cross checking, etc. Being of a generation accustomed to writing things down, I also keep a pen-and-paper list of prominent costars for each actor, which helps me to jog the old memory.

Now, off to put this into practice for Fay Wray and Tilda Swinton.
 
1. Fay Wray was in the TV movie Gideon's Trumpet with Henry Fonda
2. Henry Fonda was in Once Upon a Time in the West with Gabriele Ferzetti
3. Gabriele Ferzetti was in I Am Love with Tilda Swinton.

Next: Cary Grant and Cary Elwes
 
MarkW said:
Brian63 said:
Just wondering here---

How do all of you manage to come up with these connections? Whenever I have tried, I have gone on to IMDB, but have been unable to get any links in a short number of steps (2 or 3 or 4, say). Do you make these steps just in your own memory and know the actors/actresses well enough in your head to connect them, or do you go to some other website for assistance? You all seem to get the actors/actresses in just a few steps or so, which is nice to see.

Brian
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What I do is similar to CJW's method--I will often open IMDB tabs for each actor and start cross checking, etc. Being of a generation accustomed to writing things down, I also keep a pen-and-paper list of prominent costars for each actor, which helps me to jog the old memory.

Now, off to put this into practice for Fay Wray and Tilda Swinton.
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I do the same. I open a tab for each actor at IMDB. Every time I find a promising connection I open that in a new tab. For Clark Gable, I opened a tab on him and the movies I thought might lead me off in the right direction. Luckily, I picked Run Silent Run Deep as one of them. Then working on the Mel Gibson side, I chose a few movies to check out that I was pretty sure had actors with long careers in it, such the movie Maverick. I found the link via Brad Dexter pretty quickly but that was just because I like James Coburn and was checking out his movie roles.

I also write things down. Some of these searches have gotten pretty long, and I get confused about who was in what with whom. Also, I look for trends. If an actor had a long run of one type, like Westerns or Film Noir, I concentrate on that type of movie in my searches for links.
 
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