# Six Degrees of..... **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943 "2008-03-11T09:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/1 "2008-03-11T09:27:46Z")
Because no-one else has started one, I thought i’d start up a 6D thread. I would guess most of you know how this works already, but in case you don’t; I give you two names of actors, singers, celebrities, fictional characters and the like, and you try to connect the two through other people that have appeared with them on the same show/same song/are related to someone/etc. The person that can link the two in the shortest amount of links gets to suggest the next two names. The best possible way would be an a link of one; for example if I asked you to link Bruce Willis and Sam Jackson, you could point out they both appeared in Die Hard 3 (or Unbreakable). If I asked you to link Kermit the Frog and Bruce Willis, you could go - **Kermit the Frog** appeared on the Muppet Show, which **Frank Oz** provided voices for; - **Frank Oz** also played Yoda in the most recent two Star Wars films, alongside **Sam Jackson** ; - Who as previously mentioned has a few ways directly to **Bruce Willis**. Easy as pie. So here we go; Link for me **Homer Simpson** and **Helen Hunt**. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/2 "2008-03-11T09:31:06Z")
Too easy. See Episode 5F12 [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_celebrities_on_The_Simpsons). How about linking Greta Garbo with Greta Scacchi. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/3 "2008-03-11T09:35:38Z")
Damn. I did do a cursory check to see if she’d been on it or not, but clearly it wasn’t enough of one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/4 "2008-03-11T13:45:00Z")
Greta Garbo and Greta Scacchi: Garbo was with **Fredric March** in _Anna Karenina_ (1935) Fredric March was with **Richard Burton** in _Alexander the Great_ (1956) Burton was with **John Hurt** in _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ (1984) And John Hurt was with Greta Scacchi in _White Mischief_ (1987) ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/5 "2008-03-11T13:49:25Z")
My suggestion for the next one: Two detectives, **Peter Falk** and **Basil Rathbone**. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/6 "2008-03-12T01:56:13Z")
[QUOTE=Schnitte] My suggestion for the next one: Two detectives, **Peter Falk** and **Basil Rathbone**. [/QUOTE] Basil Rathbone appeared in \*Sherlock Holmes in Washington \* with **Nigel Bruce**. Nigel Bruce appeared in \*Lassie, Come Home \* with **Roddy McDowell**. Roddy McDowell appeared in an episode of _Columbo_ (Short Fuse) with **Peter Falk**. Next: two Santa Clauses, \*\*Edmund Gwenn \*\* and **Paul Giamatti**. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/7 "2008-03-12T03:05:48Z")
[QUOTE=Julius Henry] Next: two Santa Clauses, Edmund Gwenn and Paul Giamatti. [/QUOTE] **Edmund Gwenn** starred in Miracle on 34th Street, **Natalie Wood** ’s first film. **Natalie Wood** ’s last film was Brainstorm, opposite **Christopher Walken** **Christopher Walken** provided the voice for Det. Vince Magnotta in the video game [Ripper](http://imdb.com/title/tt0117483/), which also featured, as the voice of Dr. Bud Cable, \*\* Paul Giamatti\*\* Ta da! 😃 Okay - two Queen Elizabeths - Dame Judi Densch and Helen Mirren ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/8 "2008-03-12T04:37:53Z")
Weren’t they both in a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? I think it was made in the sixties… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/9 "2008-03-12T11:51:09Z")
[QUOTE=coffinjumper] Weren’t they both in a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? I think it was made in the sixties… [/QUOTE] Ding Ding Ding! [We have a winner!](http://imdb.com/title/tt0063297/fullcredits#cast) Your turn. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/10 "2008-03-12T13:47:31Z")
It’s not my turn, but let’s have some fun. Tom Glavine (who is from my hometown, btw) and that monkey from Friends. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/11 "2008-03-12T20:03:17Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Ding Ding Ding! [We have a winner!](http://imdb.com/title/tt0063297/fullcredits#cast) Your turn. [/QUOTE] Huzzah! Go vague memories from the past! Um… two stars of cult musicals where they dressed in drag… Tim Curry and John Cameron Mitchell **bbs2k** , I have never seen Friends, but I am positive that at least one person on the show has been on Letterman at some point, and so has Glavine. I normally hate to use these types of steps as they’re too easy, but I think it’s probably the best when you use nonactors. Someone else is welcome to go the more obscure route. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/12 "2008-03-12T20:15:23Z")
[QUOTE=coffinjumper] Huzzah! Go vague memories from the past! Um… two stars of cult musicals where they dressed in drag… Tim Curry and John Cameron Mitchell **bbs2k** , I have never seen Friends, but I am positive that at least one person on the show has been on Letterman at some point, and so has Glavine. I normally hate to use these types of steps as they’re too easy, but I think it’s probably the best when you use nonactors. Someone else is welcome to go the more obscure route. [/QUOTE] actually, that monkey was the “star” of **Outbreak** with Dustin Hoffman - so I’m guessing that’s the route to take…but I am not in a position right now to do the research, so someone else have at it. ---
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/13 "2008-03-14T14:18:38Z")
[QUOTE=coffinjumper] Um… two stars of cult musicals where they dressed in drag… Tim Curry and John Cameron Mitchell [/QUOTE] Mitchell appeared with **Michael Pitt** in _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_ Pitt appeared with **Sandra Bullock** in _Murder by Numbers_ Bullock appeared with **Kiefer Sutherland** in _The Vanishing_ And Sutherland and Tim Curry appeared together in _The Three Musketeers_ Next one: Two geniuses of comedy, Charlie Chaplin and Graham Chapman ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-degrees-of/440943/14 "2008-03-14T22:41:30Z")
[QUOTE=Schnitte] Next one: Two geniuses of comedy, Charlie Chaplin and Graham Chapman [/QUOTE] Charlie Chaplin appeared in \*Modern Times \* with **Paulette Goddard**. Paulette Goddard appeared in \*The Snoop Sisters \* with **Charlie Callas**. Charlie Callas appeared in \*Silent Movie \* with **Marty Feldman**. Marty Feldman appeared in an episode of \*At Last the 1948 Show \* with **Graham Chapman**. Okay, let’s try a couple of athletes who made movies, Jim Thorpe and The Rock.