# If You Could Invite 5 Actors To Your Party, Who Would They Be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687 "2020-04-13T10:47:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/1 "2020-04-13T10:47:48Z")
Living or dead… For a discussion. -Marlon Brando -John Cassavetes -Orson Welles -Steve McQueen -Robert Mitchum ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/2 "2020-04-13T11:52:40Z")
Robert De Niro Robin Williams Reese Witherspoon Bob Crane Jodi Foster ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/3 "2020-04-13T11:55:16Z")
Can I loosely define Penn of Penn & Teller as an actor? He has taken roles on TV shows, so must have a SAG card. Penn Jillette Helen Mirren Irene Dunne Phyllis Frelich Konstantin Stanislavski ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/4 "2020-04-13T12:55:52Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Can I loosely define Penn of Penn & Teller as an actor? He has taken roles on TV shows, so must have a SAG card. > > Penn Jillette > Helen Mirren > Irene Dunne > Phyllis Frelich > Konstantin Stanislavski Sure. Loosely define away 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/5 "2020-04-13T13:05:02Z")
I’ll have to substitute Mort Sahl for Steve McQueen… Mort was in more than a handful of movies. In fact, I think his first (maybe second) one was with Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier, and even wrote all of his dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/6 "2020-04-13T14:12:52Z")
Simon Helberg Gary Cooper Adrien Brody Leonard Nimoy Brent Spiner Will my husband be there? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/7 "2020-04-13T14:21:49Z")
For a discussion about what? If it’s about acting, then my list is: 1. Ian McKellen 2. Peter Dinklage 3. Tom Hanks 4. Patrick Stewart 5. Katharine Hepburn ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/8 "2020-04-13T14:37:39Z")
Charles Chaplin Orson Welles Katharine Hepburn Spencer Tracy Kathy Bates They seem intelligent, chatty and extroverted. I don’t know what they were really iike, though. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/9 "2020-04-13T14:47:16Z")
This would be circa 1960: Sophia Loren Brigitte Bardot Ann-Margret Bettie Page Audrey Hepburn We would discuss Fellini and Bergman, of course. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/10 "2020-04-13T14:58:06Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > This would be circa 1960: > Sophia Loren > Brigitte Bardot > Ann-Margret > Bettie Page > Audrey Hepburn > > We would discuss Fellini and Bergman, of course. Did any of them even work for Bergman? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/11 "2020-04-13T16:10:48Z")
A lot of actors are kind of assholes, so I think I’d go with the ones who may not be the best but who I know are agreeable. Tom Hanks Jimmy Stewart Gary Sinise Dwayne Johnson Patrick Stewart ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/12 "2020-04-13T16:28:23Z")
So many actors, so little time… ☹ **"A" LIST** Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Errol Flynn Peter O’Toole David Niven ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/13 "2020-04-13T17:10:08Z")
Charles Laughton Boris Karloff Lillian Gish Barbara Steele Buster Keaton I have NO idea which way the conversation would turn…just five performers I would have liked to have met. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/14 "2020-04-13T18:23:07Z")
> [@jerez](#): > > They seem intelligent, chatty and extroverted. I don’t know what they were really iike, though. As Cary Grant once said, “I can understand why men wish they were Cary Grant. I wish I was Cary Grant.” ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/15 "2020-04-13T19:02:33Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > For a discussion about what? If it’s about acting, then my list is: > > 1. Ian McKellen > 2. Peter Dinklage > 3. Tom Hanks > 4. Patrick Stewart > 5. Katharine Hepburn Find me five actors who can intelligently discuss things other than acting, and I will invite them. Actors I see on chat shows seem pretty full of themselves and empty of everything else. There must be exceptions, but I can’t think of any offhand. On this list, for me only Tom Hanks is a maybe. Katharine Hepburn is the last person I would want to talk to about acting or anything else. My impression of her is that she suffered hardly anyone gladly, and the last thing I need is to be frozen in place by a legend. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/16 "2020-04-13T20:40:53Z")
Tom Hanks Humphrey Bogart Patrick Stewart Keira Knightley Ingrid Bergman Now I’m a little wistful that this dinner party will never take place… ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/17 "2020-04-13T21:09:20Z")
Sandra Bullock (Speed) Sofia Vergara (!) Salma Hayek (Dusk till Dawn) Marisa Tomei (Cousin Vinnie) Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang) I wish to plead guilty to selecting beautiful women who acted really well. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/18 "2020-04-14T11:23:08Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Sandra Bullock (Speed) > Sofia Vergara (!) > Salma Hayek (Dusk till Dawn) > Marisa Tomei (Cousin Vinnie) > Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang) > > I wish to plead guilty to selecting beautiful women who acted really well. That is all. What will you all talk about? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/19 "2020-04-14T11:48:07Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > What will you all talk about? 🙂 Fellini and Bergman, is my guess. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687/20 "2020-04-14T12:56:22Z")
> [@glee](#): > > Sandra Bullock (Speed) > Sofia Vergara (!) > Salma Hayek (Dusk till Dawn) > Marisa Tomei (Cousin Vinnie) > Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang) > > I wish to plead guilty to selecting beautiful women who acted really well. That is all. Me too, but they’ll all be porn stars. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-invite-5-actors-to-your-party-who-would-they-be/851687.md?page=2)