# Greatest Father/Son combos in movies and TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910 "2006-02-17T03:55:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/1 "2006-02-17T03:55:47Z")
My nominations: Professor Henry Jones and Henry Jones, Jr. - “we named the **dog** ‘Indiana’!” Captain Benjamin Sisko and Jake Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Jake grew until he towered over his dad and Benjamin would still kiss him on the forehead. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/2 "2006-02-17T04:09:33Z")
The three generations in Monster’s Ball. Ok, they weren’t great in a good way, but certainly memorable. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/3 "2006-02-17T04:15:12Z")
Walter and John Huston. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/4 "2006-02-17T04:26:02Z")
Derek and Larry Zoolander - sure they didn’t spend a lot of time on screen together but boy were there scenes together memorable. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/5 "2006-02-17T05:29:03Z")
> [@drm](#): > > Derek and Larry Zoolander - sure they didn’t spend a lot of time on screen together but boy were there scenes together memorable. This makes me mention Frank and George Costanza. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/6 "2006-02-17T07:12:58Z")
Don Vito, Michael, Sonny and Fredo Corleone Big Enos & Little Enos [Burdette](http://www.angelfire.com/ky/jesco/enoebrospg.jpg) (Smokey & the Bandit) Dr. & Scott Evil The fertile old men of Tom Hanks’s family in _You’ve Got Mail_ (60 something dad has a 4 year old son and 80 something grandpa has a 7 year old daughter while the three together plot the destruction of a charming bookstore whose owner Tom Hanks woos and wins after a period stalking her and playing mindgames that would have made it a horror movie if he didnt’ look like Tom Hanks oh I’m sorry I believe I’ve hijacked… TV: The Cartwrights of course, but especially Ben & Hoss Maurice Minnefield & his son Duk Won on _Northern Exposure_. I loved Maurice’s line upon meething the 40 year old son (and teenaged grandson) he didn’t know existed [audio file](http://www.barrycorbin.net/maurice/man/nx_man_chinaman.wav) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/7 "2006-02-17T13:00:01Z")
The Cartwrights of _Bonanza_ The Rifleman Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Tarzan and Boy in dozens of things Sanford and Son My Three Sons Leave It To Beaver Ozzie and Harriet Father Knows Best ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/8 "2006-02-17T13:25:28Z")
Steptoe & Son Frasier & Martin James Garner & Mel Gibson in Maverick. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/9 "2006-02-17T13:31:18Z")
Ellery Queen and his father Richard Queen ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/10 "2006-02-17T15:15:35Z")
One of my favorite movie pairings as father and son: Nick Nolte (as Tommy Jefferson) and James Earl Jones (as his son with Sally Hemings) in _Jefferson in Paris_. It’s rare that a black actor plays the son of a white actor 20 years his junior. Abraham, who begat Homer Simpson and Herb Powell on _The Simpsons_, and a close second to Rabbi Hyman Krustofski (Jackie Mason) and his sons Krusty and Luke Perry (as Luke Perry). ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/11 "2006-02-17T15:34:12Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Abraham, who begat Homer Simpson and Herb Powell on _The Simpsons_, and a close second to Rabbi Hyman Krustofski (Jackie Mason) and his sons Krusty and Luke Perry (as Luke Perry). Rabbi Krustofski only fathered Krusty, Luke and Krusty share the same mother. (No, it was never said directly, but in the ep. that Luke Perry guests in, he asks Krusty to do it “for mom’s sake,” implying their mother is the same.) ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/12 "2006-02-17T16:21:06Z")
Robert Wagner and Fred Astaire as son and father from TV’s\* It Takes A Thief\*. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/13 "2006-02-17T16:23:04Z")
There was Martin and Charlie Sheen in Wall Street. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/14 "2006-02-17T16:30:50Z")
James Garner - Mel Gibson - Maverick ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/15 "2006-02-17T18:41:23Z")
> [@Mr. Goob](#): > > There was Martin and Charlie Sheen in Wall Street. And Hot Shots! Part Deux (briefly). ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/16 "2006-02-17T18:58:13Z")
How could I forget - Anakin and Luke Skywalker ``` "Luke - *I* am your father!" "No! It can't be! That's impossible!" "Join me, Luke, and we will rule the Galaxy together, as father and son!" ``` Makes me wonder - what if Luke had taken him up on it? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/17 "2006-02-17T19:00:19Z")
Bill Bixby and the kid in “Courtship of Eddies Father” “People let me tell you 'bout my best friend…” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/18 "2006-02-17T19:13:12Z")
Also great involving James Garner: him and Noah Beery Jr. on _The Rockford Files_. (Much less great: Garner as Peg Bundy’s father on _8 Simple Rules for Dating the Dead Guy’s Daughters_, and whoever came up with the idea of David Spade playing the great Garner’s grandson on the same show was, I seriously hoped, pulled screaming from their moving car, hauled to the Hollywood sign behind an out of control El Camino, stripped naked, tied to the letter H and flogged with a branch from a plane tree- save for human sacrifice or providing a prisoner to al-Quaeda as part of a treaty I cannot think of any circumstance where “How about David Spade for this?” is ever a good idea.) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/19 "2006-02-17T19:16:22Z")
I always liked Noah Berry, Jr. and James Garner as Joseph “Rocky” Rockford and Jim Rockford. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/20 "2006-02-17T20:17:06Z")
Angel and Connor (from _Angel_) had a deliciously screwed up relationship. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910.md?page=2)