# 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:** 6
**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, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/101 "2011-07-16T16:53:38Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Yes. And she’s the wife of Clark Gregg, who plays Agent Coulson in the recent Marvel movies. Oooh, I didn’t know that! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/102 "2011-07-16T18:04:45Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Nixon’s daughter is married to Eisenhower’s grandson, in an early attempt to breed the GOP Kwisatz Haderacht. We need to create an SDMB “posts of fame” so that can go in it! > [@Lobelia Overhill](#): > > ``` > Isn't Jennifer grey, Joel Grey's daughter...? > > ``` Yep. ---
**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, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/103 "2011-07-16T18:19:09Z")
> [@Lobelia\_Overhill](#): > > Isn’t Jennifer grey, Joel Grey’s daughter…? And she has a (non-famous) brother. I mention this because it’s hard to believe that not only was Joel Grey married to a woman but he apparently had sex with her at least twice. Anne Baxter (of _The 10 Commandments_ fame) was the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, who was still alive when she was in her 1950s heyday. Henry Winkler and Richard Belzer are cousins, though accounts vary as to whether it’s first cousins or more distant. Winkler’s parents were Jews who managed to flee Germany for the U.S. shortly before WW2 and they stayed at first with Belzer’s parents (one or the other of whom was a blood relative) who were already citizens. Christopher Lloyd is the uncle of [Sam Lloyd](http://www.acappellanews.com/images/samlloyd.jpg) from _Scrubs_. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/104 "2011-07-16T18:21:42Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I’m probably the last True Blood fan to learn this but Anna Paquin is married IRL to the guy that plays vampire Bill. Did you know that red-headed waitress Arlene is married to Ben from **Lost**? [Photo](http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3596532480/nm0696387) ---
**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, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/105 "2011-07-16T18:33:42Z")
Speaking of Christopher and Sam Lloyd, they are from an insanely wealthy family, as in [this house](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/WavenyParkNewCanaanCt07252007.JPG)and the 300 acres it sits on in New Canaan, CT, is where he grew up. Lloyd’s maternal grandfather, Francis Lapham, founded Texaco. (No idea if he inherited any of the money: richer families have certainly lost it all.) It’s well known that Anderson Cooper is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt by her last husband Wyatt Cooper (a semi-successful writer whose book sells for [absurd amounts](http://www.amazon.com/Families-memoir-celebration-Wyatt-Cooper/dp/0553027530)) and that his older brother died- either accidentally or suicide- by falling from their mother’s balcony. I’ve never read anything about his half-brothers though, the sons of Vanderbilt’s marriage to Leopold Stokowski. (They were born when Stokowski was almost 70 but he lived long enough to see them grown.) Does anybody know if either of them are locally famous in NY or whatever? Incidentally, while the name Vanderbilt conjures images of immense wealth- and at one time for certain branches of the family it was valid- Gloria was never as filthy rich as the name implied. Her father left her a $2.5 million trust fund in the 1920s- a ton of money to be sure at the time- but it was greatly reduced by the Depression and poor management. Most of her money came basically from licensing her name- she had relatively little to do with the actual design of the jeans and cologne and other things that bore the Vanderbilt brand- and she suffered major financial reversals in the past couple of decades that at least for a while left her dependant on Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/106 "2011-07-16T18:36:26Z")
> [@Obeseus](#): > > 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. I stand corrected. As I get older, I find that certain facts gets confused together. Anyway, UK Dopers probably know this but Helena Bonham Carter is the great-granddaughter of [former British P.M. H.H. Asquith](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Asquith#Asquith.27s_death_and_descendants). ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/107 "2011-07-17T01:19:30Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > She’s married to Brad Hall. And by the way, David Spade (also from SNL) is the brother-in-law of the designer Kate Spade (her husband is his brother). :smack: I knew that. Lack of sleep can be a bitch, no? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/108 "2011-07-17T01:28:10Z")
_Lisa Bloom : Open Court_ host Lisa Bloom is the daughter of famed attorney Gloria Allred. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/109 "2011-07-17T01:31:57Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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). To clarify: Todd and Bebe Buell lived together in his home near Woodstock. Bebe cheated on him with Tyler, and came home pregnant and Todd [accepted the child as his own](http://www.lovelylivtyler.com/gallery/showpic.php?fcat=600&tree=162_600&sort=category&count=27&origpage=1&picno=15), paying for her support after Todd and Bebe broke up. Liv was mostly raised by Bebe’s parents and other relatives. When Liv was 11 (some claim 9, but 11 is more frequently clited), Bebe took her to an Aerosmith concert where she met Mia, and Bebe told Liv that this _other_ rock star was her biological father. This is something I find annoying, as I am an uncle to an adopted niece and two adopted nephews, and believe that biology is vastly over-rated. Stephen Tyler might be Liv’s father, but Todd Rundgren has always been there as her dad. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/110 "2011-07-17T02:34:11Z")
Sean Astin, of LOTR fame, is the biological son of Patty Duke and the adopted son of John Astin, of The Addams Family fame. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/111 "2011-07-17T04:35:46Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley) is the grandson of Patrick Troughton, the second Dr. Who. Speaking of Harry Potter/Doctor Who connections, [Alfie Enoch](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257917/) (Dean Thomas, of Gryffindor) is the son of [William Russell](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0257920/) (Ian Chesterton, of the First Doctor’s era). ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/112 "2011-07-17T04:56:08Z")
Bonnie Bedelia, (Bruce Willis’ wife in Die Hard), is the aunt of Macaulay Culkin. Gwyneth Paltrow and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, are second cousins. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/113 "2011-07-17T14:26:37Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > If descendants are interesting, Harry Lloyd (who played Viserys Targaryen in Game of Thrones) is a great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens. Brian Forster (the second Chris Partridge) is also a great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens. He’s also the step-grandson of Alan Napier (Alfred the Butler in the ‘Batman’ TV series). Napier, meanwhile, was a cousin of British PM Neville Chamberlain. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/114 "2011-07-17T20:36:15Z")
Actor Woody Harrellson is the son of notorious Texas hitman (and self-proclaimed JFK assassin, from the infamous grassy knoll) [Charles Harrelson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson). ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/115 "2011-07-17T21:41:19Z")
Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee were step-cousins. Yaphet Kotto is the great-grandson of King Alexander Bell of Cameroon. In his autobiography he says as an adult he learned his father was Crown Prince of Cameroon. He’s claimed descent from Queen Victoria as well, but apparently Buckingham Palace disputes this. I’m sure plenty of people shake their heads in disbelief over Dennis and Randy Quaid being brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Docta\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Docta\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Docta_G)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/116 "2011-07-17T23:14:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > … 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. Victoria Morrow is not JJL’s sister. JJL’s mother is screenwriter Barbara Turner. FWIW, I know JJL. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/117 "2011-07-18T00:58:46Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I stand corrected. As I get older, I find that certain facts gets confused together. > > Anyway, UK Dopers probably know this but Helena Bonham Carter is the great-granddaughter of [former British P.M. H.H. Asquith](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Asquith#Asquith.27s_death_and_descendants). Darn, I have been meaning to post that but never got around to it. Wiki says she is related (by marriage) to James Bond creator Ian Fleming and also Florence Nightengale. Helena’s grandmother Violet Asquith was an interesting woman in her own right and also probably Winston Churchill’s closest femal friend.It is to her diaires that we owe capturing one of Winston’s most revealing self appraisals “We are all worms. But I do think that I am a glow worm”. Has anyone mentioned that Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink) was the son of well known classical conductor Otto Klemperer? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/118 "2011-07-18T01:12:32Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I was surprised to find out \*\*Bob “Super Dave Osborne” Einstein \*\*(also Funkhauser on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” was \*\*Albert Einstein’s \*\*brother… No, not THAT Albert Einstein. This Albert Einstein changed his name to **Albert Brooks**. > > I was also surprised to find out that \*\*Warren Beatty \*\*was \*\*Shirley Maclean’s \*\*younger brother. Super Dave’s and Albert Einstein’s father was known as Parkyakarkus (and variations). Also known as Harry Parke, or his actual name Harry Einstein. He can be seen this Friday (7/22/2011) at 3:15PM EDT on TCM in the movie \*The Life of the Party \*(1937). ---
**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 18, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/119 "2011-07-18T01:17:59Z")
One of my celebri-crushes is Rashida Jones from _Parks And Recreation_. Her mom is Peggy Lipton from \*The Mod Squad \*and \*Twin Peaks \*and her father is musician/producer Quincy Jones. ---
**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 18, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049/120 "2011-07-18T01:37:23Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Super Dave’s and Albert Einstein’s father was known as Parkyakarkus (and variations). Also known as Harry Parke, or his actual name Harry Einstein. He can be seen this Friday (7/22/2011) at 3:15PM EDT on TCM in the movie \*The Life of the Party \*(1937). He famously died on stage during a Friars Club roast. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-famous-person-is-related-to-who/589049.md?page=7)