# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/21 "2006-02-17T20:30:39Z")
I just popped on to say Berry and Gardner as Rocky and Rockford in “The Rockford Files” Personally I thought the son most like Ben was Adam – and Adam was always my favorite. I thought Lucas and Mark McCain were a great team. Sarek and Spock were interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/22 "2006-02-17T20:32:13Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Angel and Connor (from _Angel_) had a deliciously screwed up relationship. I just came in here to mention them. Angel and Darla, a good vampire and an evil one, had sex, and the inconceivable happened (no pun intended): she got pregnant with his child, fulfilling part of the ancient Shanshu prophecy. Darla committed suicide by staking herself through the heart, causing Connor’s immediate birth. While Connor was still an infant, Angel’s arch enemy Holtz kidnapped him and spirited him away to a hell dimension where time passed much faster than in the “real world,” and Holtz raised Connor as his own son, training him to despise Angel. When Connor returned from the hell dimension as a young man in his late teens, he tried several times to kill his father, then got seduced by Angel’s new love, the part-demon Cordelia (who was being controlled by an otherworldly presence). SHE got pregnant and gave birth to the demon Jasmine, who appeared as a beautiful woman to almost everyone, and could have easily enslaved the world if not for intervention by Angel and his allies (with no help from Connor, Jasmine’s proud father and devoted servant). Finally, Angel struck a deal with the evil law firm Wolfram and Hart, to wipe everyone’s minds so they wouldn’t have any memories of Connor, including Connor himself. He set the kid up with a normal life in a normal suburban family, hoping he would find happiness at long last (and making everyone else better off without him). ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/23 "2006-02-17T20:37:06Z")
Jim and… Jims dad, in American Pie. Has anyone seen American Pie: Band Camp? Jims dad shows up, I’m curious to know in what capacity, although I’m goosed if I’m actually going to watch the fucking thing. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/24 "2006-02-18T02:04:24Z")
Simba and Mufasa in _The Lion King_ Eric and Red Foreman in _That '70s Show_ ---
**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 18, 2006, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/25 "2006-02-18T04:53:07Z")
Eric Cartman & Mom. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/26 "2006-02-18T13:18:39Z")
Jonathan and Clark Kent in “Smallville.” Lionel and Lex Luther in “Smallville.” ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/27 "2006-02-18T14:38:09Z")
> [@Mr. Goob](#): > > There was Martin and Charlie Sheen in Wall Street. Let us not forget _Cadence_ (gig for Goob) ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/28 "2006-02-18T21:24:35Z")
Conrad Jarrett and his father Calvin (Timothy Hutton and Donald Sutherland) in **Ordinary People** …probably my favorite father/son relationship in any movie. They didn’t always see each other clearly – and there was that horrible wife/mother distracting up the place – but so much love! And the end! I’ve seen that movie dozens of times and I cry every time I watch the final scene. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/29 "2006-02-18T21:36:18Z")
> [@phungi](#): > > Let us not forget _Cadence_ (gig for Goob) Yes, but they did not play father and son roles in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/30 "2006-02-18T22:03:46Z")
**King Mufasa** (James Earl Jones) and **Simba** (Johnathan Taylor Thomas/Mathew Broderick) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910/31 "2006-02-19T01:05:19Z")
Dr. and Scott Evil from the Austin Powers movies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-father-son-combos-in-movies-and-tv/344910.md?page=1)