# That famous person is related to WHO? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049 "2011-07-14T19:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/81 "2011-07-15T23:41:53Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Doodles Weaver (vocalist with Spike Jones and his City Slickers) was the uncle of Sigourney Weaver. She was also the daughter of Pat Weaver, TV personality and perennial Hollywood square. Picking up on the Mark Harmon theme, above, NCIS agent Timothy McGee, played by Sean Murray, had a sister in trouble in one episode. The sister was played by Troian Bellisario, Murray’s real-life stepsister and current co-star of Pretty Little Liars. The two are, coincidentally, children of series producer Donald Bellisario. ETA: And it just keeps going: Acording to Wikipedia, Murray’s younger brother is also a producer of the show, and his mother Vivienne played The Mysterious Redhead from various first season episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/82 "2011-07-16T00:01:46Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > She was also the daughter of Pat Weaver, TV personality and perennial Hollywood square. Are you thinking of Charley Weaver (whose actual name was Cliff Arquette and is the grandfather of David Arquette, Alexis Arquette, etc.)? Pat Weaver was a television executive. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/83 "2011-07-16T00:09:01Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Are you thinking of Charley Weaver (whose actual name was Cliff Arquette and is the grandfather of David Arquette, Alexis Arquette, etc.)? Pat Weaver was a television executive. That’s what I get for relying on Wikipedia. Actually, Wikipedia was correct, I just read it too quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/84 "2011-07-16T00:28:02Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Tim McGraw the country singer and sometimes actor is the son of baseball player Tug McGraw. … and during Tug’s final illness they collaborated on a very poignant song, [“Live Like You Were Dying”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Like_You_Were_Dying_%28song%29) ([lyrics here](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/mcgraw-tim/live-like-you-were-dying-13619.html), [Youtube recording here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mHaFMqde6A)) which Tim finished and recorded after Tug’s death. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/85 "2011-07-16T02:56:40Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > His sister Kelly (?) was the [Tic Tac girl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwf37CRZUNk) I had a crush on back in the day… Tom was a good looking guy and Mom was [too hot for words.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyse_Knox) Not surprising their kids turned out well. Mark and Pam are probably maintaining the tradition of passing along exceedingly good genes, though I haven’t seen their kids. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/86 "2011-07-16T03:02:21Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > That’s what I get for relying on Wikipedia. > > Actually, Wikipedia was correct, I just read it too quickly. Yeah, Pat Weaver was the head of NBC. Read an article about Doodles in which he was angry that Pat wouldn’t give him a job. This was some 20 years after Pat had retired. Doodles had issues and eventually shot himself. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/87 "2011-07-16T03:08:43Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Wait, why did you thank her? Because once she said “Gilbert” it sparked Sarah’s name in my head. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/88 "2011-07-16T03:31:05Z")
I’m probably the last True Blood fan to learn this but Anna Paquin is married IRL to the guy that plays vampire Bill. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/89 "2011-07-16T03:39:24Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Kiefer Sutherland is the grandson of the late Canadian PM Tommy Douglas. He never was prime minister. Though he has been premier of Saskatchewan, and also federal leader of the NDP. Also someone mentioned Erik Nielsen the deputy prime minister of Canada. It should be mentioned that he held this function during the 1980s, not today. (I believe he’s now deceased.) ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/90 "2011-07-16T03:50:47Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Maya Rudolph is singer Minne Ripperton’s daughter (the song “Loving You” is about Maya.) :dubious: Loving you Is easy because you’re beautiful… Making love with you Is all I want to do… ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/91 "2011-07-16T04:02:43Z")
House Voight is already mentioned, but it’s odd that of four major members only Jon Voight goes by the actual surname. (Jon’s son goes by James Haven.) Jolie and Haven have both said outright that their rejection of the name Voight is to a degree motivated dislike of their father. Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh is the daughter of actor Vic Morrow (possibly best remembered today for his death on the set of the _Twilight Zone_ movie). Her sister Victoria Morrow has been a behind-the-scenes writer and director and has worked with her on _Weeds_ among other projects. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/92 "2011-07-16T04:03:57Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Maya Rudolph is singer Minne Ripperton’s daughter (the song “Loving You” is about Maya.) > [@drastic\_quench](#): > > :dubious: > > Loving you > Is easy because you’re beautiful… > Making love with you > Is all I want to do… Well, not specifically _about_ Maya, but according to the liner notes from Riperton’s compilation CD _Petals_, the melody to “Lovin’ You” was created as a distraction for Maya so that her parents could spend time together. Maya was in the studio when Riperton recorded the song, and Minnie can be heard singing “Maya” near the end of the song in the unedited album version. [Lovin’ You](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovin%27_You#Setting) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/93 "2011-07-16T05:05:21Z")
Ione Skye (teen actress and model in the 1980s whose career has been spasmodic sense) is the daughter of '60s pop star Donovan (_Hurdy Gurdy Man_, _Season of the Witch_, etc.). Her father returned to England when she was a baby and her brother Donovan Leitch (also an actor) was a little boy and they were raised in L.A., thus (like Norah Jones with Ravi Shankar) she never met her famous father until she was grown. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/94 "2011-07-16T05:09:09Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > House Voight is already mentioned, but it’s odd that of four major members only Jon Voight goes by the actual surname. (Jon’s son goes by James Haven.) Jolie and Haven have both said outright that their rejection of the name Voight is to a degree motivated dislike of their father. I wouldn’t call Haven “major.” I think he’s a D-list celebrity. But however talented the members of this family may be, “Voight” is kind of an ugly name. It’s sort of understandable why they would want to change it to something that’s a little nicer-sounding, even aside from their supposed issues with their father. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/95 "2011-07-16T05:19:46Z")
Mentioned before, but the twins who played Samantha and Darrin’s son Adam on _BEWITCHED_ were adopted at birth and later sought out their birth parents. Per them, their birth father is Tony Curtis. (There is definitely [a resemblance](http://www.bewitched.net/adam.htm).) ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/96 "2011-07-16T10:44:08Z")
Isn’t Jennifer grey, Joel Grey’s daughter…? ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/97 "2011-07-16T11:26:43Z")
> [@](#): > > One of Pete LaCock’s two claims of fame. The other is that he was the guy replaced at third base for the Kansas City Royals by George Brett. No, LaCock never played third base in the major leagues, and he didn’t join the Royals until after Brett was already a star. The guy who lost his job to Brett was Paul Schaal. LaCock’s other distinction is that of his 27 career homers, he hit his one and only grand slam to tie the score in Bob Gibson’s final inning of his career, helping to deprive Gibson of a win in his finale. Here’s one – Al Ameche, who won the Heisman trophy in 1954 and scored the overtime touchdown in the 1958 NFL title game in what many consider the greatest football game ever played, is the cousin of actor Don Ameche ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/98 "2011-07-16T11:52:31Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Ione Skye (teen actress and model in the 1980s whose career has been spasmodic sense) is the daughter of '60s pop star Donovan (_Hurdy Gurdy Man_, _Season of the Witch_, etc.). Her father returned to England when she was a baby and her brother Donovan Leitch (also an actor) was a little boy and they were raised in L.A., thus (like Norah Jones with Ravi Shankar) she never met her famous father until she was grown. Liv Tyler, daughter of Steve Tyler, is another celebrity daughter who didn’t grow up with her father. In fact when she was young, her mother told her Todd Rundgren was her father (her name was originally Liv Rundgren). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/99 "2011-07-16T11:54:38Z")
> [@Lobelia\_Overhill](#): > > Isn’t Jennifer grey, Joel Grey’s daughter…? Yes. And she’s the wife of Clark Gregg, who plays Agent Coulson in the recent Marvel movies. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/100 "2011-07-16T14:12:44Z")
Bel Kaufman, best known for writting Up The Down Staircase, is the maternal granddaughter of famed Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. Nutritionist and author Michael Pollen is the brother of actor Tracy Pollen and brother-in-law of Michael J. Fox. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049.md?page=6)