Only one that would not only say “That’s so-and-so” but would run up, give me a big kiss and hug, and take me to lunch.
After that, there’s about…oh…between 3 and 7 that, with a little prodding, would maybe say…“OH! Right! How’ve you been?”
Stoid
PS: According to a strict interpretation of the rules, my sister has a Bacon number of 3. The celebrity that would take me to lunch has a 2.
Ignore my post. It was supposed to be a new topic… stupid wrong clicking fingers!!
Okay, for all those who desperately seek the answer, I am posting it below in rot13, so those who don’t want to see it don’t have to. Rot13 means that each letter is replaced by the one 13 away in the alphabet:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m
n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Basically, just replace every letter in the answer with the one either above or below it in the preceeding chart.
The person is:
JVYYVNZ EHSHF FUNSGRE
Type his name exactly as presented into the oracle to see the complete chain.
Now several people have commented that there is at least one 11 out there. There is not. The chart I linked to in my first post is accurate and up to date. There used to be an eleven, and I’m 99% sure it’s this same guy. He was downgraded to a 10 when the latest film in the chain was made.
I’m also fairly certain that this same guy is the least central person in the acting universe, but I’ve yet to find any of the 7 people who are a whopping 17 films away from him.
And in case anyone’s wondering, I did most of my searching the way Arnold Winkelried did: looking for old foreign films. I did find lots of 5’s and 6’s that way, but that’s not how I ended up finding the 10.
Finally, I’d like to chastise the IMDB for its absurd and arbitrary listing of people in newsclips, documentaries and whatnot as “actors” in movies. Bill Clinton in Contact? Adolf Hitler in Rio Rita? Why not Kennedy and Eisenhower for JFK?
Have you noticed that nearly everybody’s Bacon number would be one less if we were counting the Clint Howard number instead? And two less with the Mickey Rooney number? And if “Silent Night, Deadly Night 5” and “My Dog Skip” had never been made everybody’s Bacon number would be higher?
Nope. Survivor II with Jeff Probst.
Either Kevin Bacon has been on Celebrity R&R Jeopardy, giving Skupin a 2, or Probst was on Survivor 1 with Colleen, who was in the Animal with Rob Schneider, who certainly has a Bacon number around 3. I’d say Skupin is a 6 or 7 at worst.
Scratch that…I see the Oracle only counts movies, not TV shows.
Oh, don’t forget “Apollo 13.”
I wonder if Clint Howard is as “central” to the Hollywood universe as Kevin Bacon…
Run enough names through and you begin to wish that Clint Howard and Robert Wagner had become plumbers, instead.
On the Oracle’s list of 1000 best centers, Mickey Rooney comes in at #40, Robert Wagner at #44, and Clint Howard at #173.
Kevin Bacon comes in at #912. And Christopher Lee is the Center of the Hollywood Universe.
I thought that WRS’s name was familiar…
(Warning! the link spoils the identity of WRS.)
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/hns37.html
Familiar? A third-rate general is familiar to you?
Oh, well. We all find ways to waste our brain cells. There was a time when I could name all the members of Kraftwerk. 
I was trying so hard; I finally input a name that probably only Eve would know. And it still got a 2!
"Sonny Tufts was in Easy Living (1949) with Bill Erwin.
Bill Erwin was in She’s Having a Baby with Kevin Bacon."
Unflippinbelievable.
Oh dear. I just found out something unfortunate. But I’ll make another thread for it.
The second person I punched in the computer, Jimi Hendrix, was a 3.
Do I win a prize?
opus, I’m interested in what your technique was.
I did not know this but according to this
I’m 2[sup]o[/sup] from Kevin Bacon.
I found WRS on my own. Started with William F. Cody and worked my way back. The question now is, can anyone find a WRS number of more than 10?
Yes, but if you use Star Links, a game also on the Oracle of Bacon page, you can use both movies and TV, and discover Michael Skupin has a Bacon number of 3, and a William Rufus Shafter number of 11.
SHHHH! We aren’t supposed to say his name out loud!
Everyone wants to be a comedian, even the headline writers at the BBC:
Sex degrees of separation
There was also a book put out by a couple of brit writers several years back called “Who Had Who?” that played connect-the-dots with celebs and royalties, only based on their performances in bed.
One of the longest chains dealt with Ryan O’Neal.
Me, I have a Bacon number of 3, through Mel Gibson in “The Patriot” (Continential Army extra at the end of the movie).
He’s a minor historical figure in these here parts, enough that he’s got a semi-ghost town named after him. Cool silver mine, anyway.
PLUS, the familiarity comes from a friend of mine who works for a surveyor. The friend, upon hearing someone utter the name of the town, invariably mutters: “S------? Hardly even know her!” An ongoing tribute to WRS… of sorts…