# Least believable relatives ever cast opposite one another? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2004, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643 "2004-05-23T12:08:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/21 "2004-05-24T08:04:05Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Is it possible to find Jeff Goldblum effectively credible as anyone’s relative? The Fly? sorry 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/22 "2004-05-24T10:51:36Z")
The Partridge Family kids: Shirley Jones is blonde haired/blue eyed. Her character only had one husband who’d died six months before the show started. David Cassidy (her real son, iirc) has dark brown, nearly black hair, brown eyed (as was his IRL father Jack Cassidy) Susan Dey was brown haired. Danny Bonaduce was a redhead Both kids who played Chris were light brown nearly blonde haired The kid who played Tracy was reddish brwon haired (auburn?) :dubious: I know genetics can play tricks, but… Fenris ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/23 "2004-05-24T12:05:18Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > The Partridge Family kids: > > Shirley Jones is blonde haired/blue eyed. Her character only had one husband who’d died six months before the show started. > David Cassidy (her real son, iirc) has dark brown, nearly black hair, brown eyed (as was his IRL father Jack Cassidy) > Susan Dey was brown haired. > Danny Bonaduce was a redhead > Both kids who played Chris were light brown nearly blonde haired > The kid who played Tracy was reddish brwon haired (auburn?) > > :dubious: I know genetics can play tricks, but… > > Fenris David Cassidy is Shirley Jones’s stepson, not her real son. But on the show, yeah, all those kids looked more like they were adopted. And JFTR, the first Chris had dark brown hair, and the second Chris was blonde. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/24 "2004-05-24T12:14:36Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > And add to that the towhead, blue-eyed kids on _Full House_, who were supposed to be the children of a brunette Bob Sagat and John Stamos’ sister, whose family was Greek. :rolleyes: _That_ wasn’t hard to figure out–those three girls all looked amazingly like Joey. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/25 "2004-05-24T12:32:22Z")
> [@lainaf](#): > > In Kenneth Branagh’s _Much Ado About Nothing,_ Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves are cast as half-brothers (Don Pedro and Don John). You might be surprised to know that this isn’t at all unbelievable. Not long ago, there was a mixed race couple who had two kids; one would have made a good Nazi recruitment poster if their features hadn’t been pure Negroid, while the other had skin as black as various proverbially black things but otherwise looked entirely like a honky. Leaving aside the acting, Michelle Trachtenberg wasn’t a good match for Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy. Not only do the two girls look entirely dissimilar, but Trachtenberg also bears no resemblance to either Kristine Sutherland or Dean Butler, the thesps who played her character’s parents. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/26 "2004-05-24T14:21:32Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Is it possible to find Jeff Goldblum effectively credible as anyone’s relative? How about [Illeana Douglas](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001152/) ? The first movie/TV show I saw her in, I would have sworn she was Goldblum’s real-life sibling (poor girl). ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/27 "2004-05-24T14:52:59Z")
I’ll see the OP’s Rains-Chaney & raise him a Mom Maria Ouspenskiya-Son Jimmy Stewart pairing from THE MORTAL STORM. Yes, she had her accent, no, he did not share the accent. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/28 "2004-05-24T15:50:17Z")
Sean Connery (Aug 25, 1930) played the father of Harrison Ford (Jul 13, 1942). I admit they made a good father/son team, but 12 years? Some more real life weirdness: One of my uncle/aunt pairs have black curly hair, brown eyes and are both over six feet tall. Their first daughter is tall, black curly hair, brown eyes. Their second daughter is tall, white blond with blue eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/29 "2004-05-24T16:19:12Z")
One of the Mistie movies – I forget the title – featured a “daughter” of the Captain Adama clone who was supposed to be late teens/early twenties but her face appeared to be that of a woman in her 50s. It was a Battlestar Galactica ripooff with actual clips from BG and sets from it – made much of the railings on the set. It was truly sub-moronic but the woman in her twenties was a hoot and the Misties had much fun with her. [crow] "She’s presenting like a baboon! [/crow] ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/30 "2004-05-25T02:35:31Z")
That would be **Space Mutiny**. I just watched it last night. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/31 "2004-05-25T04:08:56Z")
No one has mentioned the Cartwright’s of **Bonanza** yet? I know Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe were supposed to have different mothers, but none of them looked much like their father either. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/32 "2004-05-25T05:01:46Z")
Doesn’t Barbra Streisand play Mimi Roger’s YOUNGER sister in _The Mirror Has Two Faces_? I didn’t see it, but Mike Nelson made a comment about it in one of his books. I mean, I know Babs is supposed to be egotistic but that’s just…not right. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643/33 "2004-05-25T07:30:30Z")
Oh my God! How could I forget! This has got to be one of the least believable of all! [Sabrina Le Beauf and Lisa Bonet as the daughters of Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad???](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086687/) :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-believable-relatives-ever-cast-opposite-one-another/246643.md?page=1)