# I wonder if there are any TV/movie/sports stars on the SDMB. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597 "2002-06-29T19:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/21 "2002-07-01T03:20:17Z")
what band was aha in? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/22 "2002-07-01T03:33:57Z")
**The Five Americans** (response to the British invasion) ---
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/23 "2002-07-01T06:37:27Z")
I sold a bunch of music Cd’s last year, does that count? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/24 "2002-07-01T09:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > I sold a bunch of music Cd’s last year, does that count? Not if you work in a music shop! ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/25 "2002-07-01T11:31:34Z")
I’ll let you guys decide if this is for real or not: [Dr Crane? Is that really you?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2136784#post2136784) ---
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/26 "2002-07-01T11:36:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ninevah \* > \*\* > > Not if you work in a music shop! \*\* heh heh. nope. I wrote the music. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/27 "2002-07-01T12:54:38Z")
For three years, I did a sketch comedy show with UT called **The Campus Loop**. The second two years we were broadcast to about 115 college campuses across the US, and received some pretty decent fan mail and had a few devout followers. Of course, we all graduated, the company sponsoring us went bankrupt, and I haven’t done much acting since. But I still get people asking me if I’m a medievil knight, and I just want to punch them (worst…sketch…ever) ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/28 "2002-07-01T14:21:54Z")
I’ve given out thousands of autographs (some of which appeared on EBay) as a college basketball player, but that was less to do with my fame and more to do with the fame of the team. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/29 "2002-07-01T16:07:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jackelope \* > \*\*The hell? > > Isn’t anyone totally amazed and impressed by the fact that Dick Sargent was my great-uncle? Jeez, that’s been my best conversation-started for my entire life, and suddenly it’s _stopped working_? Oh great, now I’m going to have to come up with another one… \*\* So did he ever, like, do Elizabeth Montgomery? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/30 "2002-07-01T16:43:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Knowed Out \* > \*\* > > So did he ever, like, do Elizabeth Montgomery? \*\* Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/31 "2002-07-01T17:24:13Z")
No, dear, you must be thinking of Dick _York_. Dick Sergent did Uncle Arthur. ---
**Author:** ![Phoebestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Phoebestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phoebestar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/32 "2002-07-01T17:34:44Z")
Um… My cousin’s cousin’s cousin is Lionel Ritchie. How famous does that make ME? (Answer: not at all! I’ve never met the cousin’s cousin, much less Mr. Richie himself.) But it is fun to bring up in conversation on occasion, nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/33 "2002-07-01T18:44:57Z")
I wasn’t asking anyone to reveal their identity. I was just wondering if anyone had any guesses. Apparently there is definate knowledge of a few. It would be really cool if there are some elected or appointed officials high up on the scale here. Congressional or parlimentiary members, cabinet members and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/34 "2002-07-01T19:16:08Z")
I’m really Nastassja Kinski. ---
**Author:** ![Doubting\_Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Doubting\_Robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubting_Robert)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/35 "2002-07-01T19:31:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jackelope \* > \*\*OK, I will go ahead and admit it: Dick Sargent, of _Bewitched_ fame–he was the second Darren, after Dick York–was my great-uncle (father’s uncle). \*\* Okay, I can claim that much fame. As I have posted before, Debbie Reynolds (“Singing in the Rain,” “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” etc.) is my wife’s first cousin. That makes Carrie Fisher (“Star Wars”) my wife’s first cousin, once removed. I have met Debbie but not Carrie. I have had dinner with Debbie’s parents (both now deceased) and with Debbie’s brother Bill. If it makes you feel any better, **jackelope** , I got no attention whatsoever the last time I posted this. For the intellectual and/or academic crowd: My grandfather was a college president. ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/36 "2002-07-01T19:47:14Z")
Do porno movies count? I was Tom in “Twelve-inch Tom - The Terror of Titty Town” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/37 "2002-07-01T20:01:30Z")
Dick York was the first Darren, and Dick Sargent replaced him. Uncle Arthur was played by Paul Lynde. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/38 "2002-07-01T20:27:58Z")
Shortly after I appeared on Jeopardy! (8 years ago or so), I was recognized twice in public. I am no longer even a little famous, which is fine with me. Which brings up an interesting point. Anyone else here ever appeared on a TV Game Show? h. ---
**Author:** ![Doubting\_Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@Doubting\_Robert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubting_Robert)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/39 "2002-07-01T20:57:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*Dick York was the first Darren, and Dick Sargent replaced him. > > Uncle Arthur was played by Paul Lynde. \*\* [sub]Oh, goody! I get to say it![/sub] **Whoooosh!** ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/40 "2002-07-01T21:03:57Z")
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