# Name the actor by surnames of roles played **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005 "2009-03-02T13:48:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/41 "2009-03-03T00:26:47Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Was that Alec Guinness, all in “Kind Hearts and Coronets”? Yes. I posted that one as a joke. I figured one actor playing eight members of the same family was going to be obvious, espeically after mentioning someone with two roles in the same movie. Perhaps I should have gone with: D’Ascoyne D’Ascoyne D’Ascoyne D’Ascoyne D’Ascoyne D’Ascoyne D’Ascoyne D’Ascoyne Kenobi ---
**Author:** ![Rin\_Twisted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Rin\_Twisted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rin_Twisted)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/42 "2009-03-03T02:17:29Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Since you say full name, I highly doubt you mean Sherlock Holmes. > > But he’s the only one I can think of as an educated guess. Even if you don’t include radio actors. I hear ya- I was thinking the Doctor, until I noticed the full name thing… As for Bowie, I came up with Scott Forbes, Sterling Hayden, Richard Widmark, Alan Ladd and Jason Patric through some google-fu…until I realized that IMDB has a function for [this sort of thing.](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0035485/.) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/43 "2009-03-03T04:25:50Z")
> [@Rin\_Twisted](#): > > I hear ya- I was thinking the Doctor, until I noticed the full name thing… > > As for Bowie, I came up with Scott Forbes, Sterling Hayden, Richard Widmark, Alan Ladd and Jason Patric through some google-fu…until I realized that IMDB has a function for [this sort of thing.](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0035485/.) :smack: Wonderful! I didn’t know about that feature either. Makes this thread worth it! ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/44 "2009-03-03T04:50:14Z")
Puzzle #14: Brewster Parks Cooper Cade Rogers Cooper Randall Brewster Gillis ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/45 "2009-03-03T04:52:27Z")
Puzzle #15: (A gimme!) Wallace Roffe Hendrix Simpson Lambert Doolittle Golightly ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/46 "2009-03-03T05:14:00Z")
> [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](#): > > Puzzle #15: (A gimme!) > > Wallace > Roffe > Hendrix > Simpson > Lambert > Doolittle > Golightly Audrey Hepburn (if you’d left off Golightly it would have been hard). ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/47 "2009-03-03T05:18:04Z")
Correct, of course. Even with Doolittle? ---
**Author:** ![Rin\_Twisted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Rin\_Twisted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rin_Twisted)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/48 "2009-03-03T06:26:24Z")
> [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](#): > > Puzzle #14: > > Brewster > Parks > Cooper > Cade > Rogers > Cooper > Randall > Brewster > Gillis William Ragsdale? ---
**Author:** ![Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/49 "2009-03-03T06:39:51Z")
> [@Rin\_Twisted](#): > > William Ragsdale? Excellent! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/50 "2009-03-03T07:15:15Z")
> [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](#): > > Correct, of course. > > Even with Doolittle? You do have a point. That would have been less easy but still caused a pause. I’m not going to go check it, but can you think of another Golightly character? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/51 "2009-03-03T07:20:37Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Puzzle Number 8 > > Duffy > Brewster > Winter > Coyle > Kane > Poole > Love This is a repeat, because I can’t see where anybody tried to guess it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/52 "2009-03-03T07:39:22Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > This is a repeat, because I can’t see where anybody tried to guess it. I thought I was on to something with Robert Mitchum; he’s played a Coyle and a Kane, but none of the others. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/53 "2009-03-03T08:08:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I thought I was on to something with Robert Mitchum; he’s played a Coyle and a Kane, but none of the others. Well, as with the others I have posted so far, I tried to get an easily recognizable actor, but with hard to remember or recognize character surnames. Looks like the roles this guy has had include some real nondescript monikers. But I could give you two or three that would cinch it in a heartbeat. Of those on the list, try Brewster and Duffy for a better clue, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/54 "2009-03-03T11:28:58Z")
(I think this is #16) Crouch Who Hamlet ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/55 "2009-03-03T12:50:51Z")
> [@glee](#): > > (I think this is #16) > > Crouch > Who > Hamlet David Tennant ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/56 "2009-03-03T13:27:29Z")
Puzzle #17: Buxton Weir Grant Stewart Trent I think this one’s fairly easy. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/57 "2009-03-03T13:44:46Z")
One more, Puzzle #18: Russell Boswell McCarthy Smith Love ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/58 "2009-03-03T13:52:02Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Puzzle Number 8 > > Duffy > Brewster > Winter > Coyle > Kane > Poole > Love James Gandolfini ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/59 "2009-03-03T13:57:26Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#): > > Puzzle #17: > > Buxton > Weir > Grant > Stewart > Trent > > I think this one’s fairly easy. Sam Neil? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/60 "2009-03-03T13:58:11Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#): > > Puzzle #17: > > Buxton > Weir > Grant > Stewart > Trent > > I think this one’s fairly easy. Sam Neill? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005.md?page=4)