Greatest Father/Son combos in movies and TV

[AtomicDog]

My nominations:

Professor Henry Jones and Henry Jones, Jr. - "we named the dog 'Indiana'!"

Captain Benjamin Sisko and Jake Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Jake grew until he towered over his dad and Benjamin would still kiss him on the forehead.

[mack]

The three generations in Monster's Ball.

Ok, they weren't great in a good way, but certainly memorable.

[Rodgers01]

Walter and John Huston.

[drm]

Derek and Larry Zoolander - sure they didn't spend a lot of time on screen together but boy were there scenes together memorable.

[Superdude]

Derek and Larry Zoolander - sure they didn't spend a lot of time on screen together but boy were there scenes together memorable.

This makes me mention Frank and George Costanza.

[Sampiro]

Don Vito, Michael, Sonny and Fredo Corleone

Big Enos & Little Enos Burdette (http://www.angelfire.com/ky/jesco/enoebrospg.jpg) (Smokey & the Bandit)

Dr. & Scott Evil

The fertile old men of Tom Hanks's family in You've Got Mail (60 something dad has a 4 year old son and 80 something grandpa has a 7 year old daughter while the three together plot the destruction of a charming bookstore whose owner Tom Hanks woos and wins after a period stalking her and playing mindgames that would have made it a horror movie if he didnt' look like Tom Hanks oh I'm sorry I believe I've hijacked...


TV:

The Cartwrights of course, but especially Ben & Hoss

Maurice Minnefield & his son Duk Won on Northern Exposure. I loved Maurice's line upon meething the 40 year old son (and teenaged grandson) he didn't know existed audio file (http://www.barrycorbin.net/maurice/man/nx_man_chinaman.wav)

[Zeldar]

The Cartwrights of Bonanza
The Rifleman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Tarzan and Boy in dozens of things
Sanford and Son
My Three Sons
Leave It To Beaver
Ozzie and Harriet
Father Knows Best

[Peter Morris]

Steptoe & Son

Frasier & Martin

James Garner & Mel Gibson in Maverick.

[audit1]

Ellery Queen and his father Richard Queen

[Sampiro]

One of my favorite movie pairings as father and son: Nick Nolte (as Tommy Jefferson) and James Earl Jones (as his son with Sally Hemings) in Jefferson in Paris. It's rare that a black actor plays the son of a white actor 20 years his junior.

Abraham, who begat Homer Simpson and Herb Powell on The Simpsons, and a close second to Rabbi Hyman Krustofski (Jackie Mason) and his sons Krusty and Luke Perry (as Luke Perry).

[bouv]

Abraham, who begat Homer Simpson and Herb Powell on The Simpsons, and a close second to Rabbi Hyman Krustofski (Jackie Mason) and his sons Krusty and Luke Perry (as Luke Perry).

Rabbi Krustofski only fathered Krusty, Luke and Krusty share the same mother.

(No, it was never said directly, but in the ep. that Luke Perry guests in, he asks Krusty to do it "for mom's sake," implying their mother is the same.)

[marque elf]

Robert Wagner and Fred Astaire as son and father from TV's It Takes A Thief.

[Mr. Goob]

There was Martin and Charlie Sheen in Wall Street.

[jali]

James Garner - Mel Gibson - Maverick

[mack]

There was Martin and Charlie Sheen in Wall Street.
And Hot Shots! Part Deux (briefly).

[AtomicDog]

How could I forget -

Anakin and Luke Skywalker

"Luke - I am your father!"
"No! It can't be! That's impossible!"

"Join me, Luke, and we will rule the Galaxy together, as father and son!"



Makes me wonder - what if Luke had taken him up on it?

[GargoyleWB]

Bill Bixby and the kid in "Courtship of Eddies Father"

"People let me tell you 'bout my best friend..."

[Sampiro]

Also great involving James Garner: him and Noah Beery Jr. on The Rockford Files. (Much less great: Garner as Peg Bundy's father on 8 Simple Rules for Dating the Dead Guy's Daughters, and whoever came up with the idea of David Spade playing the great Garner's grandson on the same show was, I seriously hoped, pulled screaming from their moving car, hauled to the Hollywood sign behind an out of control El Camino, stripped naked, tied to the letter H and flogged with a branch from a plane tree- save for human sacrifice or providing a prisoner to al-Quaeda as part of a treaty I cannot think of any circumstance where "How about David Spade for this?" is ever a good idea.)

[Labdad]

I always liked Noah Berry, Jr. and James Garner as Joseph "Rocky" Rockford and Jim Rockford.

[Alessan]

Angel and Connor (from Angel) had a deliciously screwed up relationship.

[ddgryphon]

I just popped on to say Berry and Gardner as Rocky and Rockford in "The Rockford Files"

Personally I thought the son most like Ben was Adam -- and Adam was always my favorite.

I thought Lucas and Mark McCain were a great team.

Sarek and Spock were interesting.

[Hey, It's That Guy!]

Angel and Connor (from Angel) had a deliciously screwed up relationship.

I just came in here to mention them. Angel and Darla, a good vampire and an evil one, had sex, and the inconceivable happened (no pun intended): she got pregnant with his child, fulfilling part of the ancient Shanshu prophecy. Darla committed suicide by staking herself through the heart, causing Connor's immediate birth. While Connor was still an infant, Angel's arch enemy Holtz kidnapped him and spirited him away to a hell dimension where time passed much faster than in the "real world," and Holtz raised Connor as his own son, training him to despise Angel. When Connor returned from the hell dimension as a young man in his late teens, he tried several times to kill his father, then got seduced by Angel's new love, the part-demon Cordelia (who was being controlled by an otherworldly presence). SHE got pregnant and gave birth to the demon Jasmine, who appeared as a beautiful woman to almost everyone, and could have easily enslaved the world if not for intervention by Angel and his allies (with no help from Connor, Jasmine's proud father and devoted servant). Finally, Angel struck a deal with the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart, to wipe everyone's minds so they wouldn't have any memories of Connor, including Connor himself. He set the kid up with a normal life in a normal suburban family, hoping he would find happiness at long last (and making everyone else better off without him).

[bubastis]

Jim and..... Jims dad, in American Pie. Has anyone seen American Pie: Band Camp? Jims dad shows up, I'm curious to know in what capacity, although I'm goosed if I'm actually going to watch the fucking thing.

[KJ]

Simba and Mufasa in The Lion King
Eric and Red Foreman in That '70s Show

[Peter Morris]

Eric Cartman & Mom.

[Annie-Xmas]

Jonathan and Clark Kent in "Smallville."
Lionel and Lex Luther in "Smallville."

[phungi]

There was Martin and Charlie Sheen in Wall Street.

Let us not forget Cadence (gig for Goob)

[gallows fodder]

Conrad Jarrett and his father Calvin (Timothy Hutton and Donald Sutherland) in Ordinary People...probably my favorite father/son relationship in any movie. They didn't always see each other clearly -- and there was that horrible wife/mother distracting up the place -- but so much love! And the end! I've seen that movie dozens of times and I cry every time I watch the final scene.

[Amp]

Let us not forget Cadence (gig for Goob)
Yes, but they did not play father and son roles in that movie.

[don't ask]

King Mufasa(James Earl Jones) and Simba(Johnathan Taylor Thomas/Mathew Broderick)

[msmith537]

Dr. and Scott Evil from the Austin Powers movies.