Coolest name in the Movie industry (Rip Torn)?

I always thought Werner Herzog has a good rhythm to it. And I should know, because I swear I could hear him narrating my life for a couple decades.

Akim Tamiroff
Zero Mostel
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Yma Sumac (mostly a singer, but she made a few movies)

I submit Al Smutko, a production staffer on two Star Trek series (TNG and Voyager).

I was in grad school when TNG premiered, and my roommates and I discovered his name in the end credits. Thinking that this guy had an awesome (and funny) name, we would cheer for him every week when we saw his name. Being weird and nerdy fans, we made up a fan club for him. I eventually got in touch with Mr. Smutko, and he and I became friends; he even took my wife and me on a tour of the Voyager set.

Al has an entry on the Memory Alpha Star Trek Wiki, which makes mention of how our “fan club” started. :smiley:

Leonardo DiCaprio. Brings to mind the Renaissance and paradise.

Whoopi Goldberg. Just sounds fun.

Max Martini
Slaine

Are you worthy of . . . the Malachi Throne?

Kitten Natividad – Voluptuous actress

Wah Chang – Visual Efx designer and artist

Stanislaus Zybysko – Wrestler turned actor in Night and the City (1950)

Kola Kwariani - Wrestler/chess player turned actor in The Killing (1956)

Ricou Browning – The man in the creature suit in Black Lagoon.

Janos Prohaska – Distinguished suit actor

Googie Withers – Indian-born British actress

Vladek Sheybal – Iconic ‘60s-'70s spy movie actor (e.g., Kronsteen)

Elton Chong - Dreary Hong Kong actor

How odd, that on a message board full of MST3K fans, nobody has asked: “How much Keefe?”

Miles O’Keefe!

One of my favorite names: Parley Baer.

mmm

Or a make believe version of Baba Wawa.

Dirk Benedict.
JM J. Bullock (who later went by “Jim”)
Awkwafina

Michael Ironside. That name sounds as badass as the characters he plays (or used to play—I saw him in some true-crime TV show recently, and he’s really let himself go).

Mako .

Dirk Blocker

We used to watch a TV series that had some awesome names in it. Then the network went digital and we could no longer get it on the dish.

Tantoo Cardinal
Dakota House
Gordon Tootoosis
Lubomir Mykytiuk
Melvin Good Eagle

Jay Silverheels (Tonto)
Q’orianka Kilcher (The New World)
Nǃxau ǂToma (The Gods Must Be Crazy)
David Gulpilil (Walkabout)
Taika Waititi (JoJo Rabbit)
Temuera Morrison (Star Wars)
Sabu (The Jungle Book)

Tor Johnson

Yma Sumac was supposed to be a name of Incan origin, but a lot of people couldn’t help noticing that it’s “Amy Camus” backwards.

I’ve remarked several times that actor Khigh Dhiegh, who played Chinese agent Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-Oh, and Judge Dee in the TV movie Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders, as well as a host of other Chinese and Japanese characters in TV and movies, actually was Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese, and was really named Kenneth Dickerson. His stage name was a fanciful phonetic spelling of his initials. (And he used other spelling variants, as well, sometimes using the middle name “Aix”, which I’d interpret as “K.X.D.”)

This one. I remember seeing his name popping up onscreen in an episode of TNG, and thinking, “Wait, what?”

I have no doubt at all that Gary Gygax named “The Malachite Throne” in his Greyhawk setting for Dungeons & Dragons after Mr. Throne.