# Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 10, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853 "2000-08-10T16:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/41 "2000-08-11T14:43:04Z")
There are only 2 with a bacon number of 8? Well I just found one of them, Leia Zanganeh. Its really not that hard to find a seven after you can get to 5s or so. And the 8 was easy to find. I just stole Sublight’s 7, and looked at the movies he(or she?) was in, the looked for other people in those movies(cause once they are that far out of the mainstream they likely only have the one connection. Which is why you can usually work a 5 down to a seven by chaining the most obscure people in those movies. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/42 "2000-08-11T18:15:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Sealemon88 \* > > \*\*Until I tried John Belushi, I didn’t know Kevin Bacon was in Animal House. Rating of 1 on the Bacon scale. > > \*\* > > ::futilely holding hands in air, while crowd is panicking:: > > [screechy voice] “Remain calm! All is well!” \*\* Hee hee. Thank you, sir. May I have another? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/43 "2000-08-11T22:05:54Z")
Ura-Maru wrote: > [@](#): > > Joe Don Baker has a one, but his proximity to Bacon isn’t really that shocking. Heh heh heh. Ooh, _Mitchell_ is gonna get you for that one! (Provided he can haul his butt out of the chair and waddle over to you, that is.) ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/44 "2000-08-12T01:37:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by plnnr \* > \*\*The program has some bugs in it to be sure. I input Rudolph Valention and got a Bacon Number of 2! According to the site, RV was in a movie with Sophia Loren in 1965 (obviously wrong unless they used his corpse as a prop). It obviously wasn’t THAT RV. I think that’s cheating a bit on the part of the program. \*\* Also, the Jim Carey they use is an actor from the 1940s. (I tried on the other site to connect Jim Carey to Elvis Costello) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/45 "2000-08-12T02:22:28Z")
Could you be thinking of Jim Carrey? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/46 "2000-08-12T04:30:25Z")
Lawrence Oliver We misspelled “Laurence Olivier” and fund that “Lawrence Oliver” has a Bacon number of “infinity”. Apparently this isn’t a big deal, however, as 12% of actors have a Bacon Number of infinity. (God, who else does?) And who the hell is Lawrence Oliver? Has anyone built an Eotvos number calculator? The Bacon number is really a rip-off of the Eotvos number, an I’m sure than have a non-infinite Eotvos number. I just have no idea what it is. (The connections for Eotvos number are co-authorships of scientific papers, rather than co-starring in movies.) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/47 "2000-08-12T04:38:13Z")
Cal, I believe it’s the Erdös number. explanahttp://www.oakland.edu/~grossman/erdoshp.htmltion Now, who can name somebody who has an Erdös and a Bacon number? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/48 "2000-08-12T04:45:28Z")
I’m impressed! I’ve tried obscure silent film stars like Charles Ogle (played Frankenstein in 1910!), Max Schreck (from Nosferatu), Snitz Edwards (from Phantom of the Opera), Noble Johnson and Steve Clemento (From King Kong and silent films), and Elmo Lincoln (the first Tarzan) and none has a Bacon number higher than 3! It won’t accept the actor Ian Fleming – apparently it only knows the James Bond author. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/49 "2000-08-12T04:52:40Z")
Robot Arm: You’re right – Erdos it is. I’ve written to them to see what my Erdos number is. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/50 "2000-08-12T04:59:44Z")
I mispelled the Terminator actor is found that there is a real actor named Arnold Schwartzenpecker. HA HA HA HAA HA ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/51 "2000-08-12T16:34:21Z")
Ha! Thanks, Robot Arm. I’m stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/52 "2000-08-12T17:07:51Z")
Paul Erdos has a Bacon number. Erdos and Gene Patterson both appeared in the documentary _N is a Number_. Patterson and John Turturro both appeared in _Box of Moonlight_. Turturro and Tom Cruise both appeared in _The Color of Money_. Cruise and Kevin Bacon both appeared in _A Few Good Men_. This comes from _My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos_. The Bacon number was probably independently invented rather than stolen from the idea of the Erdos number. ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/53 "2000-08-12T19:35:18Z")
My personal Kevin Bacon Number is 5. I rode the shuttle to work with this woman(1). She was married to a guy who worked security for movie locations (2). This guy was the actual bodyguard for Whitney Houston while she was filming The Bodyguard(3). Victoria bass was in the Bodyguard with Whitney Houston(4). Victoria Bass was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon(5). ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2000, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/54 "2000-08-13T07:00:54Z")
I stumped it!! I stumped it!! With Gino Caruso, the early king of operas. He was in opera movies, so he is legit. ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2000, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/55 "2000-08-13T09:03:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bear\_Nenno \* > \*\*I mispelled the Terminator actor is found that there is a real actor named Arnold Schwartzenpecker. HA HA HA HAA HA \*\* That is one hell of a misspelling… ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/56 "2000-08-14T14:29:59Z")
> [@](#): > > I stumped it!! I stumped it!! With Gino Caruso, the early king of operas. He was in opera movies, so he is legit. Did you check the imdb? I think that’s where they’re pulling their data. And it might be a spelling issue… What movies? ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/57 "2000-08-14T15:26:55Z")
I have a bacon number of 3: Dogsbody -\> best friend best friend was in _SugarTown_ with Ally Sheedy Ally Sheedy was in _She’s Having a Baby_ with Kevin Bacon. And I was also able to get a Bacon number of infinity with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran - he was in a British release called _Hunting Venus_ a year or so back. ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/58 "2000-08-14T15:55:03Z")
you infidels! of course you can stump the computer, if you don’t follow the divinely inspired rules of the game! **NO** tv shows, **NO** “well I once had a muffin that Jack Lemon picked out but then decided not to get”, **NO** Schwarzenegger or Elvis. damn you all! this is a sacred activity. the actors must be members of the screen actors’ guild. if your opera guy happened to be in a few movies, great. but don’t profane the game by saying that you stumped a computer. THE BACON SHALL LIVE FOREVER. seriously though, I made it to the final rounds of Stupid Human tricks a bunch of years back w/ the kevin bacon game. Didn’t make it to the end (although I beat a guy who could put his hat on his feet and kick it onto his head). I’m not bitter though, because I got a letterman sponge, and got to see a cat that played pinball. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/59 "2000-08-14T16:08:35Z")
(1) My father worked with Kit Langlois, who (2) Is the father of Paul Langlois, who is with the Tragically Hip, who (3) Are good friends of Dan Aykroyd and were the musical guests on SNL on a night he hosted. (4) Dan Aykroyd is one step removed from Kevin Bacon a number of different ways, unless he was actually in a movie with him I’ve forgotten. So mine’s 5. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853/60 "2005-04-24T22:20:53Z")
I was walking down Chestnut Street in Philadelphia with a friend, and a couple passed us walking in the other direction. My friend says, “Do you know who that was?” “No,” I say. “Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick,” she says. I say, “Do you know what this means?” “No, what?” says she. “One degree!” I exclaim. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon/28853.md?page=4)