# Identify the actor from the roles he or she played **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277 "2006-01-23T18:19:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/1 "2006-01-23T18:19:55Z")
Who was it who played: Vincent Michael Lefty Ivan Tony Lowell Big Boy? Get it right and start your own list. Get it wrong, your list is null and void. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/2 "2006-01-24T16:27:43Z")
After a day of 0 replies, it’s obvious this isn’t going to fly. Al Pacino. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/3 "2006-01-24T16:53:02Z")
Al Pacino is the answer? It looks like John Travolta to me. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/4 "2006-01-24T17:03:15Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > Al Pacino is the answer? It looks like John Travolta to me. 😕 Might even be Travolta. All I know is I got all those character names off [Pacino’s IMDB page](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000199/). It did occur to me – as the thread just sat there with no action – that first names alone don’t give much help as far as characters go. But then full names are way too easy for any actor with a decent body of work. I mean who wouldn’t know: Stanley Kowalski Don Vito Corleone You could stop right there and have a real exciting half-minute before somebody popped back with the answer. Not a lot of fun. But I guess it would be slightly more fun than no response at all in 24 hours. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/5 "2006-01-24T17:06:13Z")
I gotta go with Ron Perlman here. Did i get it? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/6 "2006-01-24T17:14:10Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > I gotta go with Ron Perlman here. Did i get it? mmmmmm…Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/7 "2006-01-24T17:26:10Z")
Vincent, Michael and Tony are all Travolta characters (Pulp Fiction, Michael and Saturday Night Fever). Decent idea, but problems, you’re right. Let’s think up something else even more fun! ::: sits :::: :::: thinks ::::: ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/8 "2006-01-24T17:31:42Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > Vincent, Michael and Tony are all Travolta characters (Pulp Fiction, Michael and Saturday Night Fever). > > Decent idea, but problems, you’re right. Let’s think up something else even more fun! > > ::: sits :::: :::: thinks ::::: Yep. I kept listing the names until Big Boy looked like it ought to isolate Pacino. It also occurred to me that unless somebody was super-bored and really intent on getting the answer they’d pretty much have to page through IMDB looking for character lists, or do some serious searches on character names, one at a time. No joy. I’d also like to get something moving on a similar notion. Would peculiar costumes be a good thing to think about? (We’d have to be pretty good at describing such things.) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/9 "2006-01-24T17:39:34Z")
Okay, I’ll play. Edward Captain Jack Rochester Sir James Inspector Fred George Constable Ichabod ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/10 "2006-01-24T17:40:28Z")
> [@parthenokinesis](#): > > I gotta go with Ron Perlman here. Did i get it? I was going to guess Ron Perlman too. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/11 "2006-01-24T17:44:32Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > I was going to guess Ron Perlman too. That would also be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/12 "2006-01-24T17:53:06Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Okay, I’ll play. > Edward > Captain Jack > Rochester > Sir James > Inspector Fred > George > Constable Ichabod Johnny Depp Lynn Sam Patella Morgan Bo Mikey ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/13 "2006-01-24T17:54:43Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Okay, I’ll play. > Edward > Captain Jack > Rochester > Sir James > Inspector Fred > George > Constable Ichabod Johnny Depp? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/14 "2006-01-24T17:55:54Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Johnny Depp > > Lynn > Sam > Patella > Morgan > Bo > Mikey Sean Astin? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/15 "2006-01-24T17:58:16Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Sean Astin? Yep. ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/16 "2006-01-24T18:04:19Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Okay, I’ll play. > Edward > Captain Jack > Rochester > Sir James > Inspector Fred > George > Constable Ichabod Depp. I think mine should be guessable without utilizing IMdB. The first one is the most telling… Tyler Joe Jeffrey Mickey Rusty John ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/17 "2006-01-24T18:05:29Z")
Okay! I didn’t put up another list, so here’s (hopefully) an easier one: Audrey Elizabeth Laura Lauren Jain Ellen Marcy Brenna ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/18 "2006-01-24T18:07:15Z")
Brad Pitt. Dixie Margot Viola Liv Wendy ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/19 "2006-01-24T18:15:06Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > That would also be wrong. I know. I was just trying to offer moral support. 🙂 If I have time later on, I will also offer a list of character names. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277/20 "2006-01-24T18:18:48Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > I know. I was just trying to offer moral support. 🙂 > > If I have time later on, I will also offer a list of character names. I was being snarky. Thanks for the support. And do get a list together, please. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-the-actor-from-the-roles-he-or-she-played/341277.md?page=2)