Name the actor by surnames of roles played

[Wash]

#48

Cody
Donelly
Hudson
Lovett
O’Malley
Vaughn

#49

Druthers
Grissom
Grossman
Whatley
White

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Wash

…

#49

Druthers
Grissom
Grossman
Whatley
White

Bryan Cranston

#50
Valentine
Shank
Chung
Blake
Lew

[Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty]

I’m trying to make this one Not Easy:
#51
Ross
Roth
Johnson
Shaw
Ryan

As a hint, there are at least four surnames I could add, any one of which could instantly give it away.

[The_Scrivener]

#50
Valentine
Shank
Chung
Blake
Lew

WAG… Eddie Murphy? (I’m not using IMDB.)

[vd]

@Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty

I’m trying to make this one Not Easy:
#51
Ross
Roth
Johnson
Shaw
Ryan

As a hint, there are at least four surnames I could add, any one of which could instantly give it away.

Meryl Streep

[Wash]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Bryan Cranston

Correct

@Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty

I’m trying to make this one Not Easy:
#51
Ross
Roth
Johnson
Shaw
Ryan

As a hint, there are at least four surnames I could add, any one of which could instantly give it away.

Through sheer brute force (I’m bored at work), I came up with Meryl Streep. Is that correct or are those 5 names just common enough that another actor has had them too?

#52
Blake
Cohen
Mitchell
Rogers
Rose

I can think of at least 3 names that would make this one much easier.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@The_Scrivener

WAG… Eddie Murphy? (I’m not using IMDB.)

No.

[vd]

This might be stretching things a little but…

#53
Corleone
King
Doe
Truman
Rosen
Liddy

[Zeldar]

Just a heads-up, players.

As this thread is approaching 200 posts, I think it may be easier to access the unsolved puzzles if I start a new thread that includes just the rules of the game and the unsolved and/or unverified puzzles. We can add to that and leave this one active as well, just in case.

I would like to specify in the OP of the new thread that IMDB and other sources are fair game and not to be considered cheating. If we had to outlaw such help, I personally would be lost.

I would like some feedback on these issues and any others that are bugging you.

I propose the new thread title to be:

Five (or more) character surnames = one actor: Thread #2

Any problems with that?

FWIW I’m working on a Notepad file that will organize the guesses and verifications next to the original puzzle, for ease of reference, both here and in the new thread – once it gets going well.

This has been my most successful new thread since I started back at SDMB last month. Thanks, all!

[Little_Nemo]

I would like to specify in the OP of the new thread that IMDB and other sources are fair game and not to be considered cheating. If we had to outlaw such help, I personally would be lost.

The problem is that IMDB allows searchs by character names. Which essentially makes this quiz an exercize in who can look up the answers quickest. I’d allow IMDB searchs but not character searchs. If you see a character name that looks familiar you can look up the actor to verify you’re right and to check for other characters played by that actor.

[Zeldar]

@Little_Nemo

The problem is that IMDB allows searchs by character names. Which essentially makes this quiz an exercize in who can look up the answers quickest. I’d allow IMDB searchs but not character searchs. If you see a character name that looks familiar you can look up the actor to verify you’re right and to check for other characters played by that actor.

Thanks for the feedback, Little Nemo.

Have you done an IMDB character search? There are pages of hits on such names as Shaw, Ryan, Jones, Johnson, and dozens more like them. The trick is to pick likely candidates for the actor and then verify them against the actor’s other roles.

If we outlaw IMDB character searches, then it’s going to be a game of who knows the most obscure roles that actors have played. I’d wager that well over half the puzzles would remain unsolved, especially when the selection of roles for the puzzle has been based on those that are not the main roles actors are known for.

If you want to outlaw IMDB character searches, please start a new thread with that as a rule and see how far it goes.

[Seeker_of_Truth_and_Beauty]

@vd

Meryl Streep

@Wash

<snip>
Through sheer brute force (I’m bored at work), I came up with Meryl Streep. Is that correct or are those 5 names just common enough that another actor has had them too?
<snip>

You are both correct!

[Zeldar]

********************* Thread Summary as of Post # 192 ***************

This listing is for puzzles that have yet to be completely resolved.

Completed puzzles, with confirmation by the original poster, as well as
chit-chat and extraneous remarks not directly affecting the puzzles
themselves, have been removed.

Puzzles are in Post Number sequence of the original Puzzle Post.

Guesses (where applicable) are inserted in their Post # order.

This list will be updated and reposted at the top (or as near as possible)
of the next page of this thread.

If interest warrants, and a new thread on this same concept gets started,
the upddated list will also appear early in that thread.

Thanks to all who have played. If you need to tidy up things you started,
please do so.

Zeldar

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#54 03-03-2009, 05:28 AM glee

(I think this is #16)

Crouch Who Hamlet

#55 03-03-2009, 06:50 AM Hoopy Frood

Quote:
Originally Posted by glee
(I think this is #16)

Crouch Who Hamlet
David Tennant

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#77 03-03-2009, 09:53 AM critter42

OK, I’m trying #22

Devine Noakes Swigert Ross Caine McCormack

#82 03-03-2009, 10:12 AM Zeldar

Quote:
Originally Posted by critter42
OK, I’m trying #22

Devine Noakes Swigert Ross Caine McCormack

Kevin Bacon

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#84 03-03-2009, 10:20 AM Baker

#24

Clark Jackson Gordon Young More

For another clue, all of the above names are portrayals of real people, not fictional

#88 03-03-2009, 10:26 AM Zeldar

Quote:
Originally Posted by 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!

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#94 03-03-2009, 11:20 AM Zeldar

Puzzle # 25

Wilcox Hayden Stevens Lewis Ludlow Morse Powell

#105 03-03-2009, 02:44 PM Zeldar

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeldar
Puzzle # 25

Wilcox Hayden Stevens Lewis Ludlow Morse Powell

Repeating for the new page. Still to be guessed.

#165 Yesterday, 04:02 PM Zeldar

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeldar
Puzzle # 25

Wilcox Hayden Stevens Lewis Ludlow Morse Powell

Repeating yet again! I’ll even add a couple more names to the stack.

Munro Silk

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#109 03-03-2009, 03:04 PM astorian

#30

Chipping Cross Gurney James Lawrence Swann

#111 03-03-2009, 03:07 PM Robot Arm

Quote:
Originally Posted by astorian
#30

Chipping Cross Gurney James Lawrence Swann

Peter O’Toole

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#114 03-03-2009, 03:51 PM Sternvogel

Here’s Puzzle #34:

Carter Sharp Green Woods Walker Williams

#129 Yesterday, 12:04 PM Zeldar

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sternvogel

Here’s Puzzle #34:

Carter Sharp Green Woods Walker Williams

I have spent hours (!) finding Reese Witherspoon’s match to these names.

Excellent selections, Sternvogel. You’d be surprised how many “close but no cigar” matches I’ve run across.

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#131 Yesterday, 12:09 PM Zeldar

Puzzle Number 37 (I believe)

Kenyon Baxter Davis Murphy Rhodes Taylor Diamond

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#156 Yesterday, 02:49 PM Zeldar

Puzzle # 42 (perhaps)

Elgart Doolin Henry Ryan Hall Walker Bailey

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#170 Yesterday, 10:29 PM NDP

Another:

Monroe Stewart Harford Stone Kennsinger Ingram

#171 Yesterday, 10:40 PM Rubystreak

Quote:
Originally Posted by NDP

Another:

Monroe Stewart Harford Stone Kennsinger Ingram

Nicole Kidman. It was the Kennsinger that gave it away.

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#171 Yesterday, 10:40 PM Rubystreak

Next one:

Grossman Algren Hunt Lauria Goodsen Babbitt

#173 Today, 07:03 AM Zeldar

Next one:

Grossman Algren Hunt Lauria Goodsen Babbitt

Tom Cruise. Wonder what made you think of him.

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#172 Today, 12:46 AM Little Nemo

#45 (I think)

Corvin Morris Schaffer Speer Whitney Wilson

#174 Today, 07:06 AM Zeldar

Quote:
Originally Posted by Little Nemo
#45 (I think)

Corvin Morris Schaffer Speer Whitney Wilson

Clint Eastwood

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#177 Today, 11:17 AM Little Nemo

#47
Grey Knowles Lewis Richards Taylor

#180 Today, 12:17 PM Wash

Quote:
Originally Posted by Little Nemo

#47
Grey Knowles Lewis Richards Taylor

Halle Berry

Fun, and sometimes incredibly hard game. Some of the ones on previous pages I was drawing a complete blank on

even after I saw the answer!

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#181 Today, 12:25 PM Wash

#48

Cody Donelly Hudson Lovett O’Malley Vaughn

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#182 Today, 12:33 PM Elendil’s Heir

#50
Valentine Shank Chung Blake Lew

#184 Today, 01:53 PM The Scrivener

Quote:

#50
Valentine Shank Chung Blake Lew

WAG… Eddie Murphy? (I’m not using IMDB.)

#187 Today, 03:00 PM Elendil’s Heir

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Scrivener
WAG… Eddie Murphy? (I’m not using IMDB.)

No.

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#186 Today, 03:00 PM Wash

#52
Blake Cohen Mitchell Rogers Rose

I can think of at least 3 names that would make this one much easier.

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#188 Today, 03:16 PM vd

This might be stretching things a little but…

#53
Corleone King Doe Truman Rosen Liddy

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[Sparky812]

@Zeldar

That’s really the point. All you have to do is pick some random surname and use it to look up characters (for example: Sparky ) and you’ll get back oodles of actors’ names in oodles of movies or shows.

The whole idea here is to pick some character names that may not be all that obvious (as opposed to Corleone or Durden or Bourne or Ocean) but that are indeed played by the same actor. Your guess of John Wayne on the first puzzle was the sort of thing at play here.

I have no issue with the idea of the multi-actor approach – in a new thread. But having a mixed bag in the same thread isn’t what I had in mind. Too confusing in an already confusing environment.

Yes, I realize that and I have read the OP and understand the concept of the thread as proven with not only the John Wayne puzzle, but James Gandolfini, Clive Owen, and others.
I answered it for fun and do not need you to explain this thread.
Thank You!

[Zeldar]

@Sparky812

Yes, I realize that and I have read the OP and understand the concept of the thread as proven with not only the John Wayne puzzle, but James Gandolfini, Clive Owen, and others.
I answered it for fun and do not need you to explain this thread.
Thank You!

I apologize if you think those comments were directed at you, Sparky812. I realize, and did at the time, that you understand the game and what was intended in the OP. Your puzzles have been fun to solve.

I was supporting your point of view and directing the additional comments to Really Not All That Bright, who appeared to have joined the thread without reading (or understanding) the OP. Maybe that wasn’t clear and if so, please realize I wasn’t trying to explain the thread to you.