Clint Eastwood also put his daughter, Allison Eastwood, into his movie adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Not only was she completely untalented and horrible in the movie, Eastwood actually created a new character that wasn’t in the book just to give his daughter a part. Not only that but it was the worst kind of created part- a completely contrived love interest for the John Cusack character which totally detracted from the rest of the story and essentially stopped the movie dead for every scene she was in.
You have to see Big Jake, which has the Duke’s son Patrick AND Robert Mitchum’s son Chistopher.
And they both SUCK. Especially Chris Mitchum. He delivers his lines as if he’s reading them for the first time in rehearsal.
I nominate Dom DeLuise’s family. I didn’t mind Dom himself appearing in a couple Stargate SG-1 episodes, but none of his kids have any acting ability, and I get sick of them constantly showing up in various sci-fi shows.
What’s up with that anyway?
On the other hand, if only Edwin Boothe had thrown John Wilkes a few more bones…
Steve Bochco and Barbara Bosson.
Ope. Well there you go, the conglomeration has already begun. 
Now how did I know poor Tori was going to end up on this list? First off, she was no worse than anyone else while on the show and better than many (Ian Zeiring? Gabrielle Cartaris? please). Second, try watching some of her post-90210 work (especially The House of Yes and Trick) and you’ll discover that, yes, Tori spelling actually can act.
Didn’t Liv Tyler start her career by appearing in one of her daddy’s music videos?
Angelica Huston - striking-looking woman, no charisma or acting talent, but getting cast opposite ex-boyfriend Jack Nicholson in a film directed by dad John Huston upped her chances of Oscar by about 1000%.
[url=http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0004739/]Lauralee Bell** who played Cricket on Young & the Restless is the daughter of the recently deceased co-creator William J. Bell.
I’ve seen corpses who showed more depth and emotional range.
Small nitpick about Sondra Locke. While I fully agree that most of her Clint Eastwood movie personas were annoying as all hell (the exception being Antoinette Lilly in “Bronco Billy” - where she was supposed to be objectionable), Ms. Lock was an Academy Award-nominated actress for “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” way before she ever met Eastwood.
VCNJ~
At least she’s loyal and true and not too bad to look at.
Robert Mitchum gave his son Jim a role in Thunder Road that probably would have been the main flaw with the movie if it hadn’t have been for all the hokey “effects.” This was one of my favorite movies from when I saw it in the late 50’s until I saw Bullitt in the late 60’s and saw what a car chase was supposed to be like.
Come to think of it, has Jim Mitchum done anything with any quality? I never saw the thing with Dennis Hopper that they did in the Central American jungle: something like The Last Movie maybe?
Oddly enough, Ricky Jay has done quite a few of Mamet’s movies! Another Mamet wife, Lindsey Crouse, was in House of Games with Joe Mantegna (and others) and I had to see that movie the second time before I realized the wooden acting was deliberate and a part of the overall scam (more like The Sting) of it. I’ve seen Ms. Crouse in other roles where she’s been excellent, but I though her weak in HOG.
Liv Tyler started her career in modeling, she won a modeling contest for the teen magazine, Seventeen. Then she was in her father’s band video.
Yeah, she was amazing in “Mother May I Sleep With Danger” and the movie where she was the college coed turned prostitute.
:rolleyes: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=6277671#
I don’t believe anyone has corrected the following mistake: Sondra Locke was not Eastwood’s wife. She was his girlfriend.
As a candidate for the Sofia Coppola Blatant Nepotism Award, I’d like to stay in the family and nominate Nicolas Cage, who was, IMHO, totally miscast by his uncle Francis in Peggy Sue Got Married.
Once saw an episode of MAS*H that featured Alan’s dad, Robert Alda, indeed a talented actor, better than Alan, really, and Alan’s younger brother (I think his name was Antony or Anthony). Robert and Alan’s characters were arguing (Robert played a senior doctor, iirc) and young Alda, playing an MP or something, yelled at them, gave them a speech about how they needed to forget their differences and save the patient. His reading of his few lines was the worst I’ve seen on episodic television (well, not counting Johnny Bench on a few 70s sitcoms, who doesn’t fit the criteria for this thread).
I disagree with the assessment of the younger Carradines. Keith is a fine fine character actor. Robert is so-so.
Sir Rhosis
**McLintock! ** was directed by Andrew McLagen, Victor McLagen’s son. They were clearly trying to recreate some of the John Ford magic of The Quiet Man, a wonderful movie starring John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara at her most breathtaking, and Victor McLaglen.