Degrees of Separation

[Gant]

Next up...... the husky voiced

           

Glynis Johns

[Hemlock]

Glynis Johns was in The Ref with Denis Leary(True Crime),Judy Davis(Absolute Power) and Kevin Spacey(Midnight in the...).
Next Jack Black

[Gant]

Jack Black was in The Cable Guy with Jim Carey who was so good in The Dead pool.....

[Gant]

Van Johnson

[Gino M]

Van Johnson was in Purple Rose of Cairo with Jeff Daniels who was in Blood Work.


Has anyone posted Larry Hagman?

[Christopher]

I could actually think of a connection with Hagman without looking it up, though I did just to be absolutely sure.

Larry has a small part in Superman along with Gene Hackman (Unforgiven, Absolute Power).

[Christopher]

Next up: Anjanette Comer

[Gant]

Anjanette was in The Appaloosa along with John Saxon who appeared in Joe Kidd..... Boy he's had a good run aint he... Doesn't look like John's ever been out of work.

OK...... English comedy actor....

           Jim Dale

[KC]

With or without Michael Hordern, Gant?

[Gant]

Without please...........

I'm gonna give up on English thesps..... Horndern's worked with eveybody...

[KC]

OK, if you don't want to count Joseph Andrews (1977), which featured Jim and Michael Hordern, how about The Iron Maiden (1962), which had Jim and Alan Hale Jr. (Hang 'Em High)?

Wonder what happened to Dale after the 70s, he has almost no film credits since then?   I don't usually count made for TV films, but I can't help noting that his two most recent efforts feature Eastwood co-stars, namely The American Clock (1993) with Felton Perry (Magnum Force) and Loren Dean (Space Cowboys), and The Hunchback (1997) (yes, based on Victor Hugo) with Richard Harris (Unforgiven) and a bunch of Hungarians.

Speaking of Hungarians ... how about Bela Lugosi?

[Gant]

Ahhh poor Bela..

Listen to them..my children of the night

KC.. are you gonna let me get away with Plan 9's from outer space's Gregory Walcott who was along for the ride in Every which way but loose  and The Eiger Sanction..

Dunno what's happend to Dales career. probably languishing in the depths of panto land.
I had him in Pete's Dragon with the legendary Tank Murdock Walter Barnes.... One of the few/couple to best Clint in a fist fight...

[KC]

"panto land"?  

Sure, that's the link I was thinking of for Bela. In fact, we may have done him before ... it was very late, and I couldn't think of a harder one!  

Pete's Dragon is an animated film, and I don't usually look for links there ... though, there's no rule against 'em, certainly!

[Gant]

Panto.. kind of christmas theatre for kids that runs for about 3 months... lots of tv celebs  and film actors end up there after the peak years of their careers.... I'm a big fan of the Carry On movies (do you ever get the in America ?) but I don't enjoy Dale's performances in them..

I didn't even realise Petes Dragon was animated, must be part live action I guess....

Next.....
                              Bert Lahr

[KC]

Ah, Panto = Pantomime.  

I guess I didn't realize Pete's Dragon was part live action!

I know Bert Lahr without looking it up, but I won't have time to find a new one till tonight. Anyway, Bert was in The Wizard of Oz with ... Billy Curtis of High Plains Drifter fame! (The IMDb has him as "(uncredited) .... City Father" in TWOO.)

[KC]

Oops, forgot to post a new one last night ...   ... how about another Hungarian, Zsa Zsa Gabor?

[Gant]

Won Ton Ton the dog who saved Hollywood featured the lovely Zsa Zsa along with Bruce Dern from Hang em High and Madeline Kahn who was in City Heat..

Wow   what a cast, wonder if the films any good. (Won Ton that is  )

[Gant]

Next is the very lovely  Simone Signoret.

 I think I've thoroughly de-Hornden'd Simone.... but just in case I've missed one...... He don't count  

[Gino M]

Signoret was in a movie called Games with Don Stroud who was in Joe Kidd with Eastwood.

Have we done John Candy???

[KC]

I might point out that Canadian Bacon (1995), Candy's very last film, featured Rip Torn (City Heat) ... but that would be like taking Candy from a baby! Even more so were I to mention J.F.K. (1991), which featured, at the very top of its cast list longer than the list of suspected conspirators in JFK's assassination, all of the following: Kevin Costner (A Perfect World), Kevin Bacon (directed by Clint in Mystic River) and Tommy Lee Jones (Space Cowboys).

So let me reach all the way back to 1987's Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Besides the aforementioned Bacon (who doesn't really count, even if he did inspire this entire thread, because he's never acted WITH Clint, only FOR him), the cast list included no fewer than two future players in True Crime: Laila Robins, who played Clint's character's adulterous squeeze "Patricia Findley," and Michael McKean, who played the odious prison chaplain, "Reverend Shillerman."

Will that do?