# Let's play six degrees of Kevin Bacon **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 5, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680 "2014-05-05T01:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/1 "2014-05-05T01:02:44Z")
Today, I was thinking about the game “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon” while running some errands. (For those that don’t know, it has been suggested that everyone in Hollywood can be connected to Kevin Bacon within 6 degrees.). So I picked two names out of the air that I thought would be pretty disconnected, and wanted to see if they were linked within 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. I used John Wayne and Geena Davis. So I thought it would be fun to try this out here. Pick any two actors and see if we can link them with Kevin Bacon within 6 degrees. Rules: 1. you can choose any two actors you want, alive or dead. 2. you can link them only through movies, however you aren’t limited to just actors. You can also use directors, since directors would have contact with the two actors you are linking. 3. as of now, only directors… No producers, writers, relatives, or anything else. If we need to change this, we can, but for right now, i’d like to keep this as simple as possible for everyone. The person who answers the one out there gets to add the next one. Whoever gets the current challenge, please show your answer, so we can all see it. Make sure it is 6 degrees or less. If the answer the poster intended is different than the one someone else found, that’s fine. In a case like this, the original poster can come back in and show his/her solution as well. Please pick one that has at lease one answer! Have fun, everyone. If there is something unclear, just ask. This should be fairly easy as far as rules go. To summarize. 1. two actors, dead or alive 2. must link actors through Kevin Bacon by using Movies and/or directors ONLY 3. answer must be 6 or less degrees 4. supply your answer in a post 5. person who answered, please supply the next pair of actors. 6. make sure your pair has an answer. First pair: John Wayne and Geena Davis ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/2 "2014-05-05T01:11:38Z")
John Wayne was in _McQ_, from 1974, with an actor named Leslie Carlson. This Leslie Carlson was in _The Fly_, from 1986, with Geena Davis Charlton Heston and Lon Chaney ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/3 "2014-05-05T01:52:51Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > John Wayne was in _McQ_, from 1974, with an actor named Leslie Carlson. > > This Leslie Carlson was in _The Fly_, from 1986, with Geena Davis > > Charlton Heston and Lon Chaney This doesn’t work. You have to go through Kevin Bacon to make the chain work. (Hence the name of the game) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/4 "2014-05-05T01:59:46Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > This doesn’t work. You have to go through Kevin Bacon to make the chain work. (Hence the name of the game) Shoot. Sorry about that. I’ll go back and look some more. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/5 "2014-05-05T02:11:19Z")
John Wayne was in How the West Was Won with Eli Wallach who was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon Kevin Bacon was in She’s having a Baby along with Alec Baldwin who was in Beetlejuice with Geena Davis. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/6 "2014-05-05T02:13:14Z")
Assuming that’s correct - Dakota Fanning and Boris Karloff ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/7 "2014-05-05T02:28:38Z")
Boris Karloff was in The Terror, with Jack Nicholson. jack Nicholson was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon Kevin Bacon was in Trapped, with Dakota Fanning Alan Hale and Charlton Heston That’s Alan Hale, not Alan Hale, Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/8 "2014-05-05T03:32:45Z")
I’ll give a hint, my solution has four links. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/9 "2014-05-05T05:52:05Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > John Wayne was in How the West Was Won with Eli Wallach who was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon > > Kevin Bacon was in She’s having a Baby along with Alec Baldwin who was in Beetlejuice with Geena Davis. > [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Assuming that’s correct Well, it looks correct, but my solution was different. John Wayne was in the Shootist with Ron Howard. Ron Howard Directed Kevin Bacon in Apollo 13 Kevin Bacon was in Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks Tom Hanks was in A League of Their Own with Geena Davis ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/10 "2014-05-05T15:39:45Z")
Having seen Six Degrees of Bergerac, I don’t think this is difficult enough. ---
**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:** [May 5, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/11 "2014-05-05T15:42:47Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’ll give a hint, my solution has four links. You better come back and provide a solution or this thread will be moving quite slowly. Is Kevin Bacon one of those links? ---
**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:** [May 5, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/12 "2014-05-05T18:43:41Z")
For the Bacon-lovers among us: [Hello Kevin Bacon! - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=636000) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/13 "2014-05-05T19:51:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You better come back and provide a solution or this thread will be moving quite slowly. Is Kevin Bacon one of those links? Okay. I found the connections when I just picked those two names out of the air, and looked for how they related to Kevin Bacon. **Alan Hale** was in a movie titled _On Your Toes_ with\*\* Eddie Albert\*\*. \*\*Eddie Albert \*\*was in _The Big Picture_ with **Kevin Bacon**. **Kevin Bacon** was in _JFK_ with **Mark Edward Walters.** And **Mark Edward Walters** was in _Any Given Sunday_ with **Charlton Heston.** ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/14 "2014-05-05T22:06:56Z")
Well, that is impressive. Alan Hale to Charlton Heston… Baker, did you figure that out before posting, or did you give those two actors and then go back to see if you could connect them? Does someone want to put another one up, or shall I? I’ll check back later. If no one adds a new one, I will. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/15 "2014-05-05T22:15:15Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Well, that is impressive. Alan Hale to Charlton Heston… > > Baker, did you figure that out before posting, or did you give those two actors and then go back to see if you could connect them? As I said in my post, I picked those two names out of the air. Charlton Heston was one of my favorite actors, and Alan Hale was a character actor in a million films. For him I rather figured he’d get connected through Errol Flynn, because they were in so many movies together. For example, he was Little John, to Flynn’s Robin Hood. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/687680/16 "2014-07-08T14:18:42Z")
Bumping… Clara Bow and Keira Knightley.