# Bizarre Celebrity Relatives
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 26, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009 "2002-10-26T18:53:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/41 "2003-02-16T22:13:54Z")
Brian Keith’s step-mother was (briefly) aviation pioneer Peg Entwistle.
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### Author:  [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/42 "2003-02-16T22:41:27Z")
I guess it’s common knowlege by now that Liv Tyler’s dad is Steven Tyler of Aerosmith.
And whose mother was it that invented Wite-Out? I’ve heard this about Tom Hanks, Michael Nesmith and a few other celebraties.
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Jim)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/43 "2003-02-16T23:32:16Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Harvey The Heavy \*
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> And whose mother was it that invented Wite-Out? I’ve heard this about Tom Hanks, Michael Nesmith and a few other celebraties. \*\*
[Michael Nesmith](http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blliquid_paper.htm)
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### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/44 "2003-02-17T00:01:37Z")
Interesting side note about Liv Tyler: she was raised as Liv Rundgren, and thought that Todd Rundgren was her father. I have heard that she noticed the physical resemblence to Steven and questioned her mother, but that sounds too Hollyweird to be true. Then again, it might be.
One celebrity past-marriage that surprised me: Faye Dunaway and Peter Wolf (of the J. Geils Band.)
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/45 "2003-02-17T00:20:33Z")
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> \*Originally posted by LifeOnWry \*
> \*\*One celebrity past-marriage that surprised me: Faye Dunaway and Peter Wolf (of the J. Geils Band.) \*\*
Well, now, that’s wacky!
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### Author:  [@SadTomato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SadTomato)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/46 "2003-02-17T02:17:23Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \*
> \*\*Brian Keith’s step-mother was (briefly) aviation pioneer Peg Entwistle. \*\*
“aviation pioneer”–I get it.
BTW, speaking of Peg, many years ago I climbed to the top of the “D” on the Hollywood sign. I don’t think you can get away with crap like that anymore.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/47 "2003-02-17T05:02:48Z")
Sigourney Weaver was the niece of the late Doodles Weaver, vocalist with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/48 "2003-02-17T06:10:12Z")
[Alma Gluck](http://www.marstonrecords.com/gluck/gluck_liner.htm), famous operatic singer of the early 20th century, is Stephanie Zimbalist’s grandmother and of course Efrem Zimbalist Jr.'s mother.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/49 "2003-02-17T20:19:59Z")
Sissy Spacek’s husband, Jack Fisk, has a sister named Mary who was David Lynch’s second wife. Spacek reportedly helped Lynch finance **Eraserhead** , and years later he cast her in **The Straight Story**.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/50 "2003-02-18T06:26:14Z")
Lyle Lovett’s uncle is Calvin Klein. I can’t find out anywhere if he’s **that** Calvin Klein, though.
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### Author:  [@InTransit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InTransit)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/51 "2003-02-18T17:35:48Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \*
> \*\*Sigourney Weaver was the niece of the late Doodles Weaver, vocalist with Spike Jones and his City Slickers. \*\*
Sigourney Weaver’s father, Sylvester Weaver, was the programming head of NBC in the 40s and 50s. He developed shows like _The Tonight Show_ and _Today_. Prior to this, he had been the advertising manager at American Tobacco Company.
Spike Jonze is Sophia Coppola’s husband, so he enters that whole Coppola clan.
All these connection make me want to play _Celebrity Relatives and Their Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon_
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### Author:  [@InTransit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InTransit)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/52 "2003-02-18T17:38:27Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Krokodil \*
> \*\*Lyle Lovett’s uncle is Calvin Klein. I can’t find out anywhere if he’s **that** Calvin Klein, though. \*\*
He’s not. Just has the same name.
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> The 44-year-old Lovett and his uncle, Calvin Klein (no, not that Calvin Klein), were in a cattle pen with the bull they’ve raised since it was a calf when it struck them, according to Gilmer.
> from : [http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/1106999](http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/1106999)
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### Author:  [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/53 "2003-02-18T19:46:08Z")
Camille Keaton, star of the infamous _Day of the Woman_, aka _I Spit On Your Grave_ is the grandniece of Buster Keaton.
Mia Farrow is the daughter of Maureen O’Sullivan, Jane in the MGM Tarzan films. O’Sullivan’s last film appearance was with her daughter in Woody Allen’s _Hannah and Her Sisters_.
Carrie Fisher is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds (_The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Singing in the Rain_) and Eddie Fisher
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### Author:  [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/54 "2003-02-18T20:01:32Z")
And Charley Weaver (most noted for being on “Hollywood Squares” , is Roseanna, Patricia and and David Arquette’s grandfather.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/55 "2003-02-18T22:41:09Z")
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> \*Originally posted by InTransit \*
> Sigourney Weaver’s father, Sylvester Weaver, was the programming head of NBC in the 40s and 50s. He developed shows like _The Tonight Show_ and _Today_. Prior to this, he had been the advertising manager at American Tobacco Company.
Well, sure, but could he gargle to the tune of the William Tell Overture?
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### Author:  [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/56 "2003-02-18T23:30:45Z")
Warren Buffet and Jimmy Buffet are cousins. I’m not sure if they are 1st cousins, though.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/57 "2003-02-18T23:55:02Z")
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> \*Originally posted by TGWATY \*
> **Mia Farrow is the daughter of Maureen O’Sullivan, Jane in the MGM Tarzan films. O’Sullivan’s last film appearance was with her daughter in Woody Allen’s _Hannah and Her Sisters_.**
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> You know, I’ll bet when he was Maureen’s employer as well as the lover of her daughter, Woody never dreamed he’d one day be her grandson as well.
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> \*\*Carrie Fisher is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds (_The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Singing in the Rain_) and Eddie Fisher \*\*
According to Todd Fisher (Carrie’s brother, Debbie’s son), Debbie Reynolds was the lover of Agnes Moorehead for quite a few years as well. (Why any woman would make love to Agnes Moorehead when they’re already friends with studmuffin Rip Taylor is beyond me…)
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/58 "2003-02-19T00:01:26Z")
The twins who played Adam on BEWITCHED are the illegitimate sons of Tony Curtis (though they didn’t know it til they were grown).
Cite:[http://www.bewitched.net/adam.htm](http://www.bewitched.net/adam.htm)
A major twist in Gore Vidal’s novel _BURR_ was the revelation that
Martin Van Buren was the illegitimate son of Aaron Burr
though no mainstream historian shares that view.
An incredible number of the kings and queens of England have been related to each other, so much so that an investigation for practices of nepotism and hiring discrimination could be launched.
The Herodian dynasty was so inbred that the oldest son of Salome (of “seven veils”/“one Baptist platter, hold the spine” fame) was the grandson, great grandson, and great-great grandson of Herod the Great. That the family didn’t have tails and a blowhole by this time is incredible, but quite to the contrary their women were noted for their beauty (unlike the also very inbred Cleopatra VII, who was noted for her sexual talents but not her looks).
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### Author:  [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/59 "2003-02-19T00:27:07Z")
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> _Originally posted by Robot Arm_\*\*
> Sigourney Weaver was the niece of the late Doodles Weaver, vocalist with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.\*\*
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> \*Originally posted by InTransit \*
> \*\*Sigourney Weaver’s father, Sylvester Weaver, was the programming head of NBC in the 40s and 50s. He developed shows like _The Tonight Show_ and _Today_. Prior to this, he had been the advertising manager at American Tobacco Company.
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> Spike Jonze is Sophia Coppola’s husband, so he enters that whole Coppola clan.\* \*\*
I know everyone probably knows this, but Doodle Weaver’s band leader Spike Jones is a totally different person from Sofia Coppola’s husband Spike Jonze.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarre-celebrity-relatives/134009/60 "2003-02-21T00:26:51Z")
An obscuree but a goodee: Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) was the nephew of Anna Owens (better known as Anna Leonowens), author of “Anna and the King of Siam”, upon which “The King and I” and “Anna and the King”. His first-cousin was the father of Quentin Crisp (Denis Pratt), henna entrepreneur and nude bureaucrat.
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