# 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:** 5
**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, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/81 "2009-03-03T16:09:53Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > #23 [I think]: > > Anderson > Parker > Pendrake > de Winter > Hale > Christensen > Mars > Crawford > Joy > > I deleted the one standout name that likely would’ve given it away to the most people (and for extra credit, name that role); otherwise, it would be too easy. Faye Dunaway. Parker. ---
**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, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/82 "2009-03-03T16:12:49Z")
> [@critter42](#): > > OK, I’m trying #22 > > Devine > Noakes > Swigert > Ross > Caine > McCormack Kevin Bacon ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/83 "2009-03-03T16:19:34Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Faye Dunaway. Parker. Actually, the one I left out was Mulwray, from Chinatown. Nice work, though. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/84 "2009-03-03T16:20:36Z")
#24 Clark Jackson Gordon Young More For another clue, all of the above names are portrayals of real people, not fictional ---
**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, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/85 "2009-03-03T16:21:59Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > Actually, the one I left out was Mulwray, from Chinatown. Nice work, though. Yes. Mulwray is so uncommon, and Parker the other, that I should have thought a few seconds longer. Bonnie being her first major role tricked me. Have you ever known a Mulwray in real life? ---
**Author:** ![critter42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@critter42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/critter42)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/86 "2009-03-03T16:22:33Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > #23 [I think]: > > Anderson > Parker > Pendrake > de Winter > Hale > Christensen > Mars > Crawford > Joy > > I deleted the one standout name that likely would’ve given it away to the most people (and for extra credit, name that role); otherwise, it would be too easy. Faye Dunaway? NO…MORE…WIRE…HANGERS! I would think that Joan Crawford IS the giveaway ---
**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, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/87 "2009-03-03T16:25:40Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > 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? No, I think she’s unique. Point taken. ---
**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, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/88 "2009-03-03T16:26:05Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > #24 > > Clark > Jackson > Gordon > Young > More > > For another clue, all of the above names are portrayals of real people, not fictional Charlton Heston. I got sidetracked with Paul Scofield on More. Nice work! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/89 "2009-03-03T16:26:22Z")
I’ve never known of a Mulwray. I really didn’t think Parker and Crawford were easy giveaways, because although they were signature roles for Dunaway, they’re also really common surnames. Go figure… ---
**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, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/90 "2009-03-03T16:28:50Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > I’ve never known of a Mulwray. I really didn’t think Parker and Crawford were easy giveaways, because although they were signature roles for Dunaway, they’re also really common surnames. Go figure… It’s hard to explain those “mind triggers.” For me it was Laura Mars, because of her love interest in that one. Name him! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/91 "2009-03-03T16:34:11Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > It’s hard to explain those “mind triggers.” For me it was Laura Mars, because of her love interest in that one. Name him! I saw “…Laura Mars” once many years ago but don’t remember it now. The one guy who came to mind with respect to your challenge was a young Michael Biehn, who stalked Dunaway in The Fan, also made around that time. So even though I know it wasn’t Biehn, he was so dishy he deserves a mention anyway. 😃 We ought to play a “Six Degrees” variant based on actors’ real-life and portrayed romantic liasons… ooh la la! ---
**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, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/92 "2009-03-03T16:38:06Z")
> [@The\_Scrivener](#): > > I saw “…Laura Mars” once many years ago but don’t remember it now. The one guy who came to mind with respect to your challenge was a young Michael Biehn, who stalked Dunaway in The Fan, also made around that time. So even though I know it wasn’t Biehn, he was so dishy he deserves a mention anyway. 😃 > > We ought to play a “Six Degrees” variant based on actors’ real-life and portrayed romantic liasons… ooh la la! Tommy Lee Jones was the Laura Mars lover. Not long after he was Al Gore’s roommate at college (one of the Ivy League schools). That Six Degrees thing sounds fun. How would it work? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/93 "2009-03-03T16:45:33Z")
Just as it sounds. For “romantic entanglement,” I’d include virtually anything of a romantic bent, including flirting and making googly-eyes and cases of unrequited love. Instead of Six Degrees, we could call it Sixxx Degrees. For ex.: Sixxx-degrees connect Humphrey Bogart to Michael Caine [!]: Bogart kisses Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca Bergman was involved with Leslie Howard in Intermezzo Howard was married to Merle Oberon in The Scarlet Pimpernel Oberon was involved with Lawrence Olivier in Wuthering Heights Olivier was involved with Michael Caine in Sleuth. Et voila! But we’ve hijacked this thread enough. I’m starting this game in Cafe Society now… ---
**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, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/94 "2009-03-03T17:20:07Z")
Puzzle # 25 Wilcox Hayden Stevens Lewis Ludlow Morse Powell ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/95 "2009-03-03T19:11:56Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > WC Fields! Going back a bit, you are correct. Here’s someone more recent. Potter Ward Arujo Scott Kiernan Herring ---
**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, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/96 "2009-03-03T19:21:55Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Going back a bit, you are correct. > > Here’s someone more recent. > > Potter > Ward > Arujo > Scott > Kiernan > Herring Julia Roberts? ---
**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, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/97 "2009-03-03T19:27:11Z")
Puzzle #27, if I can count: Lewis Peck St. John Roberts Klein Clark Babbage ---
**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, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/98 "2009-03-03T19:30:01Z")
> [@Seeker\_of\_Truth\_and\_Beauty](#): > > Puzzle #27, if I can count: > > Lewis > Peck > St. John > Roberts > Klein > Clark > Babbage Richard Gere? ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/99 "2009-03-03T19:31:31Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Richard Gere? I knew I made it too easy. Should’ve waited a day or two. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-actor-by-surnames-of-roles-played/488005/100 "2009-03-03T20:31:52Z")
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