# Bruce Lee to Harrison Ford in six degrees. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858 "2006-11-17T17:53:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/21 "2006-11-17T21:20:17Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] I thought for sure I’d be able to get Leslie Nielson from Airplane! to Ford, but that didn’t pan out either. [/QUOTE] Leslie Nielson to Mel Brooks, _Dracula: Dead & Loving it_ Mel Brooks to Cary Elwes, _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ Cary Elwes to Billy Crystal, _The Princess Bride_ Billy Crystal to Carrie Fisher, _When Harry met Sally_ Carrie Fisher to Harrison Ford, _Star Wars_ (I’m sure there’s a shorter way, though…) ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/22 "2006-11-17T21:21:08Z")
I could be wrong here, but wasn’t James Hong in a movie with Chuck Norris? ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/23 "2006-11-17T21:23:40Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] So we have to factor in ignorance? ☹ _The Americanization of Emily_ (1964) was an “A” picture, nominated for a couple of Oscars. Too bad if today’s moviegoers don’t recognize it, but that’s their loss. [/QUOTE] I guess you have to factor in age as well as ignorance. This is a game I played with people my age. I wasn’t born until 14 yrs after that movie came out. If it makes you feel any better I’ll put that movie on my “to watch” list. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/24 "2006-11-17T21:24:58Z")
[QUOTE=gonzoron] Leslie Nielson to Mel Brooks, _Dracula: Dead & Loving it_ Mel Brooks to Cary Elwes, _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ Cary Elwes to Billy Crystal, _The Princess Bride_ Billy Crystal to Carrie Fisher, _When Harry met Sally_ Carrie Fisher to Harrison Ford, _Star Wars_ (I’m sure there’s a shorter way, though…) [/QUOTE] I came up with something very close to that, but from Bruce Lee to Ford is still seven degrees. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/25 "2006-11-17T21:35:53Z")
Lee to Ford in three: Bruce Lee to John Saxon, **Enter the Dragon** John Saxon to Timothy Carhart, **Beverly Hills Cop III** Tim Carhart to Harrison Ford, **Working Girl** I first tried to establish a path through **Total Recall** , except that wasn’t John Saxon but Michael Ironside, and I’ve never been able to keep those two tough guys straight! :o ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/26 "2006-11-17T21:46:49Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] Lee to Ford in three: Bruce Lee to John Saxon, **Enter the Dragon** John Saxon to Timothy Carhart, **Beverly Hills Cop III** Tim Carhart to Harrison Ford, **Working Girl** I first tried to establish a path through **Total Recall** , except that wasn’t John Saxon but Michael Ironside, and I’ve never been able to keep those two tough guys straight! :o [/QUOTE] [Vader] \* Impressive\*[/Vader] Chuck Norris was in “Missing in Action” with James Hong. Yeah, Yeah, I [del]cheated on[/del] IMDB’d that one. So, with “Way of the Dragon” as the starting point, I got: Lee -\> Norris-\> Hong-\> Ford Which is also three. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/27 "2006-11-17T22:05:50Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] I first tried to establish a path through **Total Recall** , except that wasn’t John Saxon but Michael Ironside, and I’ve never been able to keep those two tough guys straight! :o [/QUOTE] I was originally thinking Richard Kiel -\> Paul Newman (or Robert Redford) -\> Robert Shaw -\> Sean Connery, but it was Ted Cassidy, not Richard Kiel, in _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/28 "2006-11-17T22:07:08Z")
John Saxon was in War Hunt with Robert Redford and Tom Skerritt, among others. Any help there? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/29 "2006-11-17T22:17:13Z")
For style points, can anyone beat 13 in pictures (going through Kevin Bacon himself)? Bruce Lee [Kareem Abdul Jabbar](http://l410.myspace.com/00115/01/43/115713410_l.jpg) [Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5140/DwayneTheR_Grant_10207159_400.jpg.html?path=pgallery&path_key=Abdul-Jabbar,%20Kareem%20(I)&seq=5) [Vince Vaughn](http://www.emanuellevy.com/images/photos/xjzuxnjejcp.jpg) [Jennifer Aniston](http://www.beyondhollywood.com/gallery/stills3/qdig-files/converted-images/jennifer-aniston-vince-vaughn-ew/med_jennifer-aniston-vince-vaughn-ew1.jpg) [Kevin Bacon](http://www.crazy4cinema.com/Review/FilmsP/f_pperfect.html) [Tom Hanks](http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_03_img0937.jpg) [Denzel Washington](http://entimg.msn.com/i/gal/TomHanks/Washington_88466038_400.jpg) [Halle Barry](http://www.repubblica.it/gallerie/online/oscar2002/halle/9_g.jpg) [Pierce Brosnan](http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019906/photo/571634) [Roger Moore](http://www.klast.net/bond/images/3bonds2.jpg) [Sean Connery](http://www.klast.net/bond/images/sc_rm.jpg) [Harrison Ford](http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1135000/images/_1138584_hero_indy300.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/30 "2006-11-17T22:28:13Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] John Saxon was in War Hunt with Robert Redford and Tom Skerritt, among others. Any help there? [/QUOTE] **Robert Redford** to **Robert Shaw** (_The Sting_) to **Sean Connery** (_From Russia With Love_) to **Harrison Ford** (_Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_). Or, with help from IMDb; **Redford** to **Shaw** to **Ford** (_Force 10 From Navarone_) A triple-Bond move from **Controvert** , very nice. C’mon, no one else thinks it was cool to make a chain using Barbara Billingsley and Richard Kiel? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/31 "2006-11-17T22:39:22Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] A triple-Bond move from **Controvert** , very nice. [/QUOTE] Thanks… it’s surprisingly fun to do it in pictures. I was inspired by **Walloon’s** comment about appearing in scenes together. So, my rule is photos where two movie actors appear together (nobody between them and no movie posters or collages unless it is clearly a single photo) I had trouble getting from Pierce Brosnan to Sean Connery… have those two ever met in person? Roger Moore saved me. I’m sure someone will come along and beat 13… but with or without Bacon? ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858/32 "2006-11-18T01:13:30Z")
[QUOTE=gonzoron] Leslie Nielson to Mel Brooks, _Dracula: Dead & Loving it_ Mel Brooks to Cary Elwes, _Robin Hood: Men in Tights_ Cary Elwes to Billy Crystal, _The Princess Bride_ Billy Crystal to Carrie Fisher, _When Harry met Sally_ Carrie Fisher to Harrison Ford, _Star Wars_ (I’m sure there’s a shorter way, though…) [/QUOTE] Aha! I found my shorter way, cutting out two steps by using two of my fave movies. Leslie Nielson to Mel Brooks, _Dracula: Dead & Loving it_ Mel Brooks to Gene Wilder, _Blazing Saddles_ Gene Wilder to Harrison Ford, _The Frisco Kid_ So that’s 5 total, using Kareem. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bruce-lee-to-harrison-ford-in-six-degrees/380858.md?page=1)