# I found the only person 10 degrees from Kevin Bacon! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506 "2001-06-12T05:20:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Opus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/858c86/32.png) [@Opus1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opus1)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/1 "2001-06-12T05:20:58Z")
For those of you who have never played the Kevin Bacon game, the idea is to link actors to Kevin Bacon through move appearances. For example, Wilt Chamberlain gets a “3” because: Wilt Chamberlain was in Conan the Destroyer (1984) with Tracey Walter who was in Fist of the North Star (1995/I) with Clint Howard who was in My Dog Skip (2000) with Kevin Bacon Three films=Bacon number of 3. Well, as you can see from [this](http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/oracle/center-cgi?who=Kevin+Bacon) chart, there is only one person in history who has a Bacon number of 10, and I just found him! Just thought I’d brag a little. If anyone wants to play the Kevin Bacon Game, just go here: [http://www.oracleofbacon.org](http://www.oracleofbacon.org) Warning: it’s very addictive, and finding people with Bacon numbers above 3 is damn near impossible. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/2 "2001-06-12T05:48:13Z")
Well? . . . . . . Who the hell is it?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/3 "2001-06-12T05:53:23Z")
DAMN YOU!! There goes my night!! I’m blaiming YOU when I fall asleep at work! ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/4 "2001-06-12T07:38:47Z")
Highest I ever found was a 6 or 7, it was an actor from a production of Romeo and Juliet from the early 1900s - but I tried finding it again and all the actors have Bacon Numbers of 3 now, I think due in part to ‘My Dog Skip’. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/5 "2001-06-12T10:28:33Z")
I also played the game linking ANY two actors, trying to find those with high link numbers, but their database is so vast and there have been SO many films that high numbers are hard to find. I tried wierd combinations, like Emil Jannings and Charlize Theron, but wven they had a number of three(try it!) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/6 "2001-06-12T11:55:45Z")
I have to admit (as I have before) to being impressed with the game and the database. Even when I try obscure weirdo silent film actors like Snitz Edwards or “Bull” Montana or Charles Ogle (the first “Frankenstein”) I _still_ end up with a Bacon Number of 3. I’ve turned up people with Bacon numbers of infinity (if you appear in only one really obscure film peopled with equally obscure actors, you never connect), but finding high non-infinite Bacon numbers is incredibly hard. So who is #10? Heck, who are the ones higher than 7? ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/7 "2001-06-12T12:05:04Z")
I generally avoid “me too” posts, but I love the OP link so much that I can’t help myself. Thanks, **Opus1**. My best is a meager 3 after several early tries. This will be in my bookmarks list for some time. I’d nominate it for Weird Earl’s, if I did that sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/8 "2001-06-12T12:35:24Z")
10!?!? My best is a 5… Jeez, I felt pretty good about myself, but now to know someone’s got a 10… you’ve just ruined any chance I have to get any work done today. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/9 "2001-06-12T12:54:04Z")
I second Jack Batty: Who the hell is it? There’s no name on that page you linked to, or if there is, I didn’t see it… ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_The\_Younger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Paul\_The\_Younger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_The_Younger)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/10 "2001-06-12T13:42:15Z")
**Nelson Mandela** has a Bacon number of **2**! > [@](#): > > _From the Oracle of Bacon website:_ > \*\*Nelson Mandela was in Malcolm X (1992) with Gareth (I) Williams > Gareth (I) Williams was in Digging to China (1998) with Kevin Bacon \*\* Wow…I just don’t know what to say… ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/11 "2001-06-12T13:48:43Z")
2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-CRAP!!! See those threes? silnet film stars! I do have some satisfaction that I was able to link to him through “The Thing with Two Heads” which almost makes this worth while. Now excuse me while I pound the hell out of my keyboard o hkaga ; jg hjags hjrgsH Kg hklgggg ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/12 "2001-06-12T14:13:46Z")
Al Gore - 2 (yeah I know he lost but no Junior yet) Bill Clinton - 2 George Bush Sr. - 2 Ronald Reagan - 2 Jimmy Carter - 3 Gerald Ford - 2 Richard Nixon - NA Lyndon Johnson - NA John Kennedy - 3 Dwight Eisenhower - 3 Harry S. Truman - 3 Franklin Roosevelt - NA Herbert Hoover - 4 (my first 4) Calvin Coolidge - NA Warren Harding - NA Woodrow Wilson - 3 William Taft - NA Teddy Roosevelt - NA William McKinley - 7!!! I can go to sleep!!! ok ok, I know this is a cheap way to do it and doesn’t really count, plus I didn’t think it would work but it did and I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/13 "2001-06-12T14:15:37Z")
I don’t know why I stopped Benjamin Harrison - NA Grover Cleveland - 8 ok, I think we can safely assume there will be no more ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/14 "2001-06-12T14:26:39Z")
Jeez, I thought I had it easy, but even obscure _Dutch_ actors are in the database. Even the guy who does Sesame Street here in Holland! This is crap :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/15 "2001-06-12T14:32:48Z")
It gets worse Aghris, try porn stars. All close eh? Now go try foreign pornstars, Gina Wild even gets a 3?!? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/16 "2001-06-12T14:38:56Z")
then try Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Mao Tse-Tung, Pope John Paul II [Regis]THE POPE IS LISTED AS BEING IN ARMAGEDDON!!![/Regis] I’m beginning to think I might be in there somewhere … noe _whew_ ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/17 "2001-06-12T14:41:38Z")
The best I could do was 4 - for Musidora, star of the 1915 serial Les Vampires. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/18 "2001-06-12T14:49:18Z")
furthest actor I got was Bud Collyer (4) WILLIAM MCKINLEY??? ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/19 "2001-06-12T15:04:49Z")
I tried my real name and still got a 2. Feh. Rose ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2001, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506/20 "2001-06-12T15:17:16Z")
I spent a full day last year and never got above a 5. WHO IS IT? Please email to me if you don’t want to post it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-found-the-only-person-10-degrees-from-kevin-bacon/68506.md?page=2)