# Which Movies had the most famous people in them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836 "2011-06-09T05:52:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/21 "2011-06-09T16:26:16Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Browsing through this list, we may have a winner. I knew 38 of the names - YMMV. Click on that link for THE PLAYER. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/22 "2011-06-09T16:40:46Z")
> [@gatorslap](#): > > I would think [The Aristocrats](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436078/fullcredits#cast) is up there. I second this one for the sheer audacity of doing so! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/23 "2011-06-09T16:44:39Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Click on that link for THE PLAYER. I wonder if actors appearing as themselves count? And there’s another I had forgotten about – _That’s Entertainment_ – which. if clips from previously made movies count, [has got to be up there](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072272/fullcredits#cast). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/24 "2011-06-09T17:14:13Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I wonder if actors appearing as themselves count That’s what pushes **The Player** well into the 60s, for me (same as **That’s Entertainment** , FWIW). ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/25 "2011-06-09T17:30:13Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. > [(Cast list)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/fullcredits#cast) This is what I was going to suggest, and looking at the cast list only makes me more certain this is the correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/26 "2011-06-09T17:32:06Z")
I wouldn’t include clip shows like _That’s Entertainment_, or any show in which the talent did not decide to be in the movie. Otherwise, you’d have to include things like _[Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083798/)_. No, It’s a _It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World_ has to be the top, as all of those performers and actors chose to be in that film. ---
**Author:** ![samjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@samjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samjones)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/27 "2011-06-09T17:40:05Z")
I don’t know what the record is, but I’ll give a shout out to “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and Taps for having alot of actors that eventually went on to big careers. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/28 "2011-06-09T19:31:08Z")
Some really bad films had surprisingly large casts of famous people. **The Swarm** Michael Caine Katherine Ross Richard Widmark Richard Chamberlain Olivia de Havilland Lee Grant Jose Ferrer Patty Duke Slim Pickens Fred MacMurray Henry Fonda **The Story of Mankind** Vincent Price (as “Mr. Scratch”, clearly The Devil, and the only good casting in the film) Ronald Colman Groucho Marx (as Peter Minuit) Harpo Marx (As Sir Isaac Newton!!) Chico Marx Peter Lorre (As Nero) Hedy Lamarr (as Joqan of Arc) Virginia Mayo Agnes Moorehead Cedric Hardwicke Cesar Romero John Carradine Dennis Hopper (as Napoleon!) Edward Everett Horton Francis X. Bushman (as Moses) William Schallert (Patty Duke’s Dad on TV, here playing the Earl of Warwick) It also featured Jim Ameche, Don’s brother, as Alexander Graham Bell. Evidently they couldn’t get Don Ameche to reprise his famous role. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/29 "2011-06-09T19:52:49Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > **Murder on the Orient Express** : Wait a minute. Have you been “Don Draper” since 2001, or did you change your username after _Mad Men_ came out? If the former, you’ve got a hell of a knack! ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836/30 "2011-06-09T20:15:12Z")
Can’t forget JFK: Kevin Costner Sissy Spacek Tommy Lee Jones Gary Oldman Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Ed Asner Joe Pesci Wayne Knight Vincent D’Onofrio Jay O. Sanders Donald Sutherland Laurie Metcalf Kevin Bacon John Candy Frank Whaley Sally Kirkland Brian Doyle Murray Lolita Davidovich John Larroquette Ron Rifkin Pruitt Taylor Vince Tony Plana Martin Sheen (narrator) and the real Jim Garrison in a cameo, and then every important figure in U.S. politics from 1955 - 1970, in archival footage, plus Walter Cronkite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movies-had-the-most-famous-people-in-them/584836.md?page=1)