Thanks to Google’s recent implementation of the Bacon Number calculator (and my current lack of employment), I’ve been playing around on The Oracle of Bacon and discovered this page, which (if you scroll down) describes the most obscure actor in Hollywood. This is NOT the actor with the highest Bacon number, but the actor who, if he were substituted for Kevin Bacon as the “target” node, would require the highest average number of connections from other actors.
I found this old thread about it, which establishes that the actor in question is NOT William Rufus Shafter, the person best known for having the highest Bacon number (tied with others). I also found this page from a Java program that includes an exercise of finding this person (under “Center of the Hollywood Universe”). It calls the average Bacon-type number with a given person as the target that person’s “Hollywood number.” That’s a good term, but I can’t find anyone else using it.
Anyway, it’s been a while since anyone seems to have asked about this, but I’m surprised no one has figured it out yet. Does anyone know who it could be? Who is the most obscure actor according to the Oracle of Bacon?