Summary of the Al Traina guesses

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I might have missed some, but I’ve categorized all the guesses into three groups: “Good,” “OK,” and “WTF!” Just my opinion. YMMV.

Good:
Peter Mark Richman
Hans Conried
Jean Paul Belmondo
OK:
Hugh O’Brian
Alec Guinness
Jack Warden
Sid Caesar
Jack Klugman
John Boorman
Corbett Monica
Edward Mulhare
Danny Arnold
Mel Ferrer
Gene Reynolds
Joe Hamilton
Charles Azvanour
Robert Stack
Lloyd Bridges
Fernando Lamas
James Whitmore
Joe Campanella
Sir John Hegarty
Ian Richardson
Martin Landau
A Hoax
Charles Dance
Gary Morton
Rod Taylor
Anthony Newley

WTF!:
Dick Cavett
Mike Connors
George C. Scott
Ted Bessell
David Frost
Joe Bishop
Joel Grey
Peter Lassally
Paul Ehrlich
Michael Constantine
Graham Kerr
Ed Flanders
Doc Severinsen
Jonathan Harris
Ricardo Montalban
David Soul
Mayor Lindsay
David Niven
Tige Andrews
Johnny Carson
Michael Zannella
Noel Harrison
Jay Sandrich
Burt Bacharach
Robert Vaughn
Forrest Tucker
Chet Atkins
Robert Evans
Louis Edmonds
Gore Vidal
Leslie Howard
Peter Ueberroth (Ustinov)

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Someday, someone will search for his name and need the thread that inspired this one.

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No one guessed Al Traina before it was revealed, right?

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I don’t think any of us ever heard of Al Traina, let alone guess his name as our Mystery Man.

That list pretty much covers everyone that was guessed.

Good job to all!

5

We all knew, we were just trying to extend the thread.:rolleyes:

6

Wasn’t Louis Nye in there?

7

I was ready to cry each time Belmondo got mentioned on that thread.

The guy has a famously big nose. Jokes are made about it in some of his movies. Aren’t people here familiar with this guy?

From here: “Belmondo’s got a big nose and a face that’s seen the business end of a boxing glove once or twice.”

MM was not anywhere in the same league.

No, JPB was not remotely a good guess at all.

Hans Conried? Outside of being male, he and MM had nothing in common.

(Speaking of MM and Hans Conried, I recently came across a photo of Marilyn Monroe sitting next to the kid actor at the premiere of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. She wasn’t in the movie. Weird, unexpected publicity shot.)

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Checked awhile ago, he doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, FWIW.