# Actors Feud II **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 10, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899 "2025-08-10T03:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/41 "2025-08-17T19:45:43Z")
Points are only scored for matches. A unique pick has no matches so it score no points. To give an example, twenty-two people picked _Lawrence of Arabia_. That meant each of their picks had twenty-one matching picks. So the twenty-two people who picked _Lawrence of Arabia_ each scored twenty-one points. As for movies that turned out to be unique picks, I was surprised nobody but me picked _Arsenic and Old Lace_ or _Unforgiven_. I thought those would be popular choices with other people. (If I had been picking my personal favorites for those actors, I would have gone with _Father Goose_ and _The Conversation_. Which also would not have scored me any points.) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/42 "2025-08-17T19:48:58Z")
I am shocked…_shocked_, I tell ya…that nobody else selected “Hoosiers” for Gene Hackman. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/43 "2025-08-17T19:56:47Z")
I’m surprised no one else said _Harvey_. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/44 "2025-08-17T21:04:09Z")
Well, I am surprised I pulled that one off, after I’d submitted my guesses I checked everyone’s and could’ve sworn more people were picking others than my choices for certain actors (I was sure Butch and Sundance was going to beat The Sting, it was a toss up for me which one I went for). I must be the most average person on here haha. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/45 "2025-08-17T21:07:12Z")
PS thanks Little Nemo for taking the time to put it together ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/46 "2025-08-17T21:13:53Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I would have just put Citizen Kane down as my pick all ten times. Too easy. I had to at least provide a possibility for someone else to make a match, or it wouldn’t have been any fun. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > For Cary Grant, I picked _Notorious_, I came _really close_ to picking that one. Would have messed up my “perfect score”. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > and for Steve McQueen, I picked _The Blob._ I was considering trying a film by the British director Steve McQueen (hah!), but I couldn’t think of one he so much as had a cameo in (unlike his compatriot Alfred Hitchcock). ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/47 "2025-08-17T22:14:38Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > > > For Cary Grant, I picked _Notorious_, > > I came _really close_ to picking that one. Would have messed up my “perfect score”. My original pick for Grant was _My Favorite Wife_, but then I thought it wouldn’t get a match, so I changed it to _The Philadelphia Story._ Everyone loves _The Philadelphia Story_! Then I decided Hitchcock would get more votes, so I went with _Notorious_. My instinct was correct-- was just wrong in thinking more people would go for co-star Ingrid Bergman over Eva Marie Saint. I scored 1 by choosing _The Apartment_ for Jack Lemmon-- originally, I had _Mass Appeal._ Sheesh. What was the highest score possible for any one actor? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/48 "2025-08-17T22:22:42Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > What was the highest score possible for any one actor? We had twenty-six people play so the highest possible points would have been twenty-five. It didn’t happen this time but in the previous feud, everyone picked _The Silence of the Lambs_ for Anthony Hopkins. In this particular feud, the highest possible score (picking all ten top answers) was 157, which iamatractorboy achieved. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/49 "2025-08-18T10:59:07Z")
Interesting that Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Paul Newman had the most diverse spread of votes, suggesting they’re more recognized for overall acting talent instead of “just their name.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/50 "2025-08-18T14:31:53Z")
Woo hoo! I’m number 2! I’m number 2! ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/51 "2025-08-20T02:14:12Z")
Gene Hackman was in the French connection? It’s been decades since I watched it and had no clue who acted in it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/52 "2025-08-20T02:29:40Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Gene Hackman was in the French connection? He was the lead and he won an Oscar for it. It’s his second Oscar, which he won for _Unforgiven_, that everyone seems to have forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/53 "2025-08-20T11:35:31Z")
I’d appreciate a heads up if you run another one, @Little_Nemo . I wouldn’t have run a Feud so close to yours if I had known you were running one. I’d like to play in yours! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/54 "2025-08-20T14:51:25Z")
1. Casablanca 2. High Noon 3. North by Northwest 4. Superman 5. The Odd Couple 6. The Great Escape 7. The Hustler 8. Lion in Winter 9. Smokey and the Bandit 10. Harvey Ah, nuts. I had no idea that someone other than Rebo was running these. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/55 "2025-08-21T22:52:45Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Lion in Winter 👍 more characters ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899/56 "2025-08-28T01:12:12Z")
I have started a new feud. [Animal Feud](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-feud/1022546) - [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-feud-ii/1021899.md?page=2)