Bakers Dozen

New! Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon
  4. Lincoln
    (Is it weird they all end in “n”?)

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin

  2. Patton

  3. Nixon

  4. Lincoln

  5. Gandhi

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon
  4. Lincoln
  5. Gandhi
  6. The Basketball Diaries

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon
  4. Lincoln
  5. Gandhi
  6. The Basketball Diaries
  7. Ray

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon
  4. Lincoln
  5. Gandhi
  6. The Basketball Diaries
  7. Ray
  8. Bird

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon
  4. Lincoln
  5. Gandhi
  6. The Basketball Diaries
  7. Ray
  8. Bird
  9. The Aviator

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon
  4. Lincoln
  5. Gandhi
  6. The Basketball Diaries
  7. Ray
  8. Bird
  9. The Aviator
  10. DeLovely

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon
  4. Lincoln
  5. Gandhi
  6. The Basketball Diaries
  7. Ray
  8. Bird
  9. The Aviator
  10. DeLovely
  11. Coal Miner’s Daughter

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin

  2. Patton

  3. Nixon

  4. Lincoln

  5. Gandhi

  6. The Basketball Diaries

  7. Ray

  8. Bird

  9. The Aviator

  10. DeLovely

  11. Coal Miner’s Daughter

  12. Walk the Line

Biographical films.

  1. Chaplin
  2. Patton
  3. Nixon
  4. Lincoln
  5. Gandhi
  6. The Basketball Diaries
  7. Ray
  8. Bird
  9. The Aviator
  10. DeLovely
  11. Coal Miner’s Daughter
  12. Walk the Line
  13. The Life of Emile Zola

New category: Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK

New category: Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK
  2. Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) in Argo.

Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK
  2. Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) in Argo
  3. Robin (Alia Shawkat) in The Runaways

Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK
  2. Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) in Argo
  3. Robin (Alia Shawkat) in The Runaways
  4. Lieutenant Tom Garth (Edward Albert) in Midway

Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK
  2. Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) in Argo
  3. Robin (Alia Shawkat) in The Runaways
  4. Lieutenant Tom Garth (Edward Albert) in Midway
  5. Amos the mouse in Ben and Me

Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK
  2. Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) in Argo
  3. Robin (Alia Shawkat) in The Runaways
  4. Lieutenant Tom Garth (Edward Albert) in Midway
  5. Amos the mouse in Ben and Me
  6. Frank Stokes (George Clooney) in Monuments Men

Actually all the characters in that movie.

Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK
  2. Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) in Argo
  3. Robin (Alia Shawkat) in The Runaways
  4. Lieutenant Tom Garth (Edward Albert) in Midway
  5. Amos the mouse in Ben and Me
  6. Frank Stokes (George Clooney) in Monuments Men
  7. Basically everyone in Schindler’s List besides the three main characters

:: I missed the chess thread, but I think the most famous, or certainly most important to plot and theme, is in Bergman’s Seventh Seal. ::

::: If missed-the-boat comments like the above are annoying, I won’t take it wrong if some of our more rule-minded players tell me to quit. :::

:::: Eta, and see above: there’s a movie with John Turturro (based on the Nabokov novel) about a chess master, so that’s probably tops. ::::

Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK
  2. Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) in Argo
  3. Robin (Alia Shawkat) in The Runaways
  4. Lieutenant Tom Garth (Edward Albert) in Midway
  5. Amos the mouse in Ben and Me
  6. Frank Stokes (George Clooney) in Monuments Men
  7. Basically everyone in Schindler’s List besides the three main characters
  8. Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in Moneyball

Made-up characters in movies that are supposedly based on true events

  1. Willie O’Keefe (Kevin Bacon) in JFK
  2. Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) in Argo
  3. Robin (Alia Shawkat) in The Runaways
  4. Lieutenant Tom Garth (Edward Albert) in Midway
  5. Amos the mouse in Ben and Me
  6. Frank Stokes (George Clooney) in Monuments Men
  7. Basically everyone in Schindler’s List besides the three main characters
  8. Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in Moneyball
  9. Congressman Josiah “Beanpole” Burton of Jeff. City, MO in Lincoln

There was a Congressman Josiah Burton, but he served long after Lincoln died and wasn’t from Missouri.