# Strange little thing Otto cued me to on the IMDB actors. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187 "2006-12-22T05:07:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/81 "2006-12-24T16:39:46Z")
Thanks Jim. John Gavin - not too bad; I remember him, mostly from “Imitation of Life” with Lana Turner. I’ll have to read his bio and check out the 1910 movie. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/82 "2006-12-24T17:30:04Z")
I match up with the great [Lasse Aagaard](http://imdb.com/name/nm0007332/), whose one acting role was in the classic Danish comedy [Bananen - Skræl den før din nabo](http://imdb.com/title/tt0099100/) (aka _Banana Busters_). ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/83 "2006-12-24T17:56:33Z")
I’m [Alice Allen](http://imdb.com/name/nm0020253/), 1920s actress who starred in exactly one movie. My movie is unrelated but came out around the same time: [_The Pagan_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0020253/). Stuck in the 20s, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/84 "2006-12-24T18:19:46Z")
I’ve got Rikke Arnesen who made one film. Northern Pursuit which is only slightly better. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/85 "2006-12-24T22:23:13Z")
Yikes! Adult Film Actress! [Beth Anna - IMDb](http://imdb.com/name/nm0030235/) ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/86 "2006-12-25T01:36:19Z")
I matched up with Ennio Morricone, a music composer for movies. Well over 500 movies! I may have paired up with someone I’ve never heard of, but at least he a successful one! :D:D ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/87 "2006-12-25T01:40:06Z")
[QUOTE=AWB] I matched up with Ennio Morricone, a music composer for movies. Well over 500 movies! I may have paired up with someone I’ve never heard of, but at least he a successful one! :D:D [/QUOTE] P.S. - He did compose the original music for the movie “The Untouchables” (Kevin Costner, Sean Connery). ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/88 "2006-12-25T01:53:55Z")
My name was an assistant editor on one film. But my film, [Trouble at Midnight](http://imdb.com/title/tt0030898/)? I have the best plot synopsis ever: > [@](#): > > Plot Outline: Mystery about the theft of dairy cows. Oh, you all are writhing in envy. Admit it! ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/89 "2006-12-25T02:12:00Z")
[QUOTE=Rhiannon8404] My number is the same as [Martine Badgley](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0046110/) who made one film, [Dancing on the Moon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125058/). [/QUOTE] I also get a one-flick wonder – Felix Amsler of _Kinder der Landstraße_ fame (and I use the word “fame” very loosely). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/90 "2006-12-25T02:17:53Z")
Oh, and my film is a 1934 short called [_Love Detectives_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0025429/), which features at least one name (Betty Grable) most **Dopers** should know. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/91 "2006-12-25T02:20:43Z")
Yeah, but was there a dairy cow mystery? HUH? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/92 "2006-12-25T02:24:27Z")
Bah, mine are both boring. But it’s interesting to see that the IMDb started off with a listing of 82 movie folk which they entered alphabetically then they added some guy named Alan Miller. Why him? What does it mean? What was so special about an editor on Serengeti Symphony that meant that this guy get to be # 83. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/93 "2006-12-25T03:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=audiobottle] I get [James Alexander III](http://imdb.com/name/nm0018481/). Who is he? [/QUOTE] Actually, not James Alexander III (the third in a familial line of James Alexanders) but **James Alexander (III)** – the third man named James Alexander to garner an IMDb listing. [Here’s the full baker’s dozen,](http://imdb.com/find?q=James%20Alexander&nm=1&ex=1&nr=1) which even includes one actress! ---
**Author:** ![Opus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/858c86/32.png) [@Opus1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opus1)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/94 "2006-12-25T04:11:56Z")
Cool, I’m [Ray Romano](http://imdb.com/name/nm0005380/), someone I’ve actually heard of. However my movie is the obscure 1915 silent film [Getting a Start in Life](http://imdb.com/title/tt0005380/). ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/95 "2006-12-25T04:31:25Z")
My “actor” is [James Andriani](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0028943/), who has been in all of two films so far: **Kiss of Medusa** (1982), in which he was apparently the only cast member (??), and \*\*Invasion for Flesh and Blood \*\*(1994), a Troma “film.” That sound you hear is the bottom of the barrel being scraped. Although, somehow, I’m now perversely interested in finding out more about this guy. What does he look like? Why the twelve-year hiatus between acting jobs? Is his hair as poofy and '80s-like as I imagine it to be? What is his enigmatic relationship with Warren F. Disbrow? Not that I’m likely to exert any energy in finding out this stuff. But if there were a link that would give me all that info, I would definitely click on it, probably. My movie is a bit better: [**The Gold Racket** (1937)](http://imdb.com/title/tt0028943/), starring the immortal Conrad Nagel; a film which I might actually go out of my way to watch one day, assuming any prints still exist. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/96 "2006-12-25T04:49:56Z")
Here’s obscurity for you. I’m [Jaume Agulló](http://imdb.com/name/nm0013773/), whose only film credit is for cinematography on the 1938 Catalan documentary [Cataluña mártir](http://imdb.com/title/tt0029978/). Wonder what the box office take on that was? Probably not as good as that for my movie, [With Stanley in Africa](http://imdb.com/title/tt0013773/), if only because that was a Hollywood production … ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/97 "2006-12-25T04:55:13Z")
[Bethany Babyak](http://imdb.com/name/nm0045160/) is my name, [Снегурочка](http://imdb.com/title/tt0045160/) is my movie. A production assistant and a cartoon adaptation of a Russian opera that’s better as a vinyl record than a celluloid movie. At least it’s only 67 minutes. I don’t believe in that numerology stuff anyways… ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/98 "2006-12-25T05:13:10Z")
And **jsgoddess** , I am so green with envy I’m photsynthesizing as we speak. Not just a cow mystery, but _dairy_ cow mystery! I’m waiting by the postbox until the Netflix envelope arrives. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/99 "2006-12-25T10:38:41Z")
My number doesn’t seem to exist - it automatically switches back a digit to 11732 - [Giuseppe Addobbati](http://imdb.com/name/nm0011732/) (aka John Mac Douglas / John Douglas / Jhon Mac.Douglas / John MacDouglas / John McDouglas). My movie is [The Steel King (1919)](http://imdb.com/title/tt0011733/) ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187/100 "2006-12-25T11:21:37Z")
[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] Yikes! Adult Film Actress! [http://imdb.com/name/nm0030235/](http://imdb.com/name/nm0030235/) [/QUOTE] You’ve got to love her #2 movie title, though! My actor is another one-flick wonder: [Ray Ban](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138902/) By some coincidence or something, my movie only has one actor (voice talent only): [Cuenca](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051505/). Rather disappointing! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-little-thing-otto-cued-me-to-on-the-imdb-actors/385187.md?page=6)