From the Australian TV series, Kath and Kim, the no-good beach bum Sandy Freckle, played to perfection by William McInnes. The name is also an apt pun in Australian slang.
And further to that, in the credits he appears as Rock Hampton. Rockhampton is a regional Queensland city, and this is possibly the best made-up actor name ever imagined.
This thread brings to mind the MST3K episode “Space Mutiny,” wherein the riffers make up a series of beefcake sounding names for the hero. For whatever reason, these names and the way they continue throughout the episode have always left me in stitches, crying laughing. Some examples:
My wife loves to watch Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movies, nearly all of which feature leading men with chiseled features and string jaws. I’ve taken to referring to all of them as “Chin McJawline.”
whose full name is Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, which is obviously his birth name, because no one would willing choose that for themselves.
From the animated classic Shrek, we have Shrek (which means ‘fear’ in German) and the delightfully named Lord Farquad (which sounds suspiciously like a vulgar term of insult).