Guest macrea Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Assuming you mean Fairbanks, Jr... he costarred in "Ghost Story" with John Houseman, who starred in "The Paper Chase," scored by John Williams.Next:Greer Garson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Greer Garson was in Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando who was in Superman - The Movie which was scored by John Williams.Next: Charles Middleton (this one)Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 He was in Duck Soup with Groucho Marx.Groucho was in Skidoo with Burgess Meredith.Burgess Meredith was in The Reivers!Next: Leonard Rossiter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Leonard Rossiter was in The Pink Panther Strikes Again with Phil Brown who was in Superman - The Movie and Star Wars, both scored by John Williams.Next: Lon Chaney Sr.Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,192 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Leonard Rossiter was in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which used Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra. An excerpt from Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier was used in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, along with an original score by John Williams.(Gah... use Neil's next one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest macrea Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Lon Chaney, Sr. was Fagin in the 1922 silent version of "Oliver Twist," in which Oliver was played by Jackie Coogan, who was in "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home."Next:Cornell Wilde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Cornel Wilde was in The Norseman with Lee Majors who was in The Last Chase with Burgess Meredith, who was in The Reivers.Paul Henreid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Henreid and Ingrid Bergman in CasablancaBergman in Spellbound, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who directed Family Plot.Next: Daniel Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Next: Daniel Craig.Are you serious? :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Daniel Craig was in the apparently forgettable Munich, scored by John Williams.Next: Denise CrosbyNeil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Next: Daniel Craig.Are you serious? :roll:I was. :oops: banghead Denise Crosby was in Curse of the Pink Panther, co-starring David Niven, who was in Death on the Nile, which starred Peter Ustinov, who also starred in John Goldfarb, Please Come Home.Next: Tom Baker (from Doctor Who). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Julian Glover guest starred on "Doctor Who" the same time Tom Baker played the Fourth Doctor. Glover has been in three JW-scored movies: The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.Next: Stephen Chow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Damn, I wish I'd been logged on for the Tom Baker one! My avatar!!! I had no idea Julian Glover was in Harry Potter until your post TROT! Just goes to show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest macrea Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 For clarification and future reference... Burgess Meredith was not IN "The Reivers," he only narrated it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Okay. I'll finish the Burgess "Penguin" Meredith one the right way. He was in Rocky with Sly, who was in First Blood with Brian "Presumed Innocent" Dennehy and Richard "John Goldfarb" Crenna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Listing Meredith for The Reivers is correct. He's credited in the film, so it's an official degree.Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRuleOfThirds 0 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Now quit avoiding the subject and link Stephen Chow with John Williams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Listing Meredith for The Reivers is correct. He's credited in the film, so it's an official degree.An actor being portrayed as a historical figure by someone in another film is not, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Why not?Who gave you the right to make up all these rules all of a sudden! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Stephen Chow directed Kung fu for which one of the producers was Bill Borden, who also produced Get on the Bus starring Bernie Mac, who was in Ocean's Eleven with Matty Damon, who was in Saving Private Ryan.Takashi Shimura Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest macrea Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Shimura did like a gazillion things with Toshiro Mifune, who was in "1941" and "Midway."Bobby Driscoll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Driscoll was in M Squad, and Johnny did some music for that show.Next: Steven Spielberg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Why not?Because it has to be either people who've worked together, or had a long-lasting relationship outside of work (like marriage or friendship).Unless of course, the actor/actress portraying the person in question, has met with that person at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Says who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Says I! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Jawohl Mein Diskussionforumfuhrer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,192 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Next: Steven Spielberg.Steven Spielberg was in Blues Brothers, together with Dan Aykroyd, who was in 1941, scored by John Williams. Next: Brent Spiner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Steven Spielberg was in Blues Brothers, together with Dan Aykroyd, who was in 1941, scored by John Williams. Dan Aykroyd was also in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, by Steven Spielberg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Steven Spielberg was in Blues BrothersHe was?Next: Brent SpinerBrent Spiner was in Independence Day with Jeff Goldblum.Jeff Goldblum was in Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, both scored by Williams.Next: Jim Varney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Steven Spielberg was in Blues BrothersHe was?He has a cameo near the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Oh yeah, now I know. I think I only found out when I watched the film for the fourth or fifth time or so and I saw his name on the end credits. He's pretty much unrecognizable without his beard and baseball cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Jim Varney was was voice in Toy Story with Tom Hanks, who was in Saving Private Ryan, The Terminal, Catch Me If You Can, etc..Mia Kirshner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,192 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Easy! Mia Kirshner will be in The Black Dahlia, directed by De Palma, for whom John Williams wrote one of his best scores: The Fury.Next: Sir Peter Ustinov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 He was in Spartacus, along with Laurence Olivier.Laurence Olivier was in A Bridge Too Far, along with Anthony Hopkins.Anthony Hopkins starred in Nixon and Amistad, scored by John Williams.Next: Buster Keaton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Ustinov was also in John Goldfarb... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Dang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fommes 153 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Keaton was in Sunset Boulevard, with William Holden, who was in Towering Inferno...Next: George Méliès. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest macrea Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Méliès directed "A Spanish Love Song" which starred Francis Ford, who appeared in the "The Quiet Man" (directed by his brother John Ford) which was shown on a television in "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," for which Williams wrote a cue based on the "Quiet Man" theme.Cornelia Otis Skinner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 A more direct connection is that his son, André Méliès, was in Judex with Channing Pollock, who was in the show Bonanza with Lorne Greene, who was in Earthquake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest macrea Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I disagree. The offspring was in a movie otherwise unrelated to Méliès and jumping from "Judex" to "Bonanza" to "Earthquake" is less direct than going from "The Quiet Man" to "E.T." Plus "The Quiet Man" directly relates to Williams' music, not only in "E.T.," but the traditional Irish melody "Rakes of Mallow" --heard throughout "The Quiet Man" -- is used several times in "1941." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 But linking a film shown on a TV in another movie isn't as direct as following a trail of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock 11 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Cornelia Otis SkinnerCornelia Otis Skinner is the cousin of Otis Skinner, who was in the movie Kismet with Tom Kennedy, who had an uncredited role as a Bouncer in Some Like It Hot, which featured piano playing by John Williams. I can't think of anyone particularly good, so I'll just pick someone where the connection doesn't come to mind....Bella Lugosi (excluding the Dracula connection). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest macrea Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 But linking a film shown on a TV in another movie isn't as direct as following a trail of people.In that case we can go with "Quiet Man" star Maureen O'Hara, also of "The Rare Breed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 See, that wasn't so hard Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pi 0 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Looks like IMDB is getting plenty of hits from this website these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Bela Lugosi was in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein with Glenn Strange who was in Flash Gordon with Charles Middleton who was in Duck Soup with Groucho Marx who was in Skidoo with Burgess Meredith who narrated The Reivers!Next: Brett FavreNeil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pi 0 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 OK i will try one:Brett, who should retire, was in Something About Mary, which had music by a favorite of mine, George Gershwin, who also had a song in Catch Me If you Can, The wonderful ballad Embraceable you, which of course was jazzified by the maestro.Next:another one of my favorites John Coriglianook thats easy, forgot about him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest macrea Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Ah, thanks, pi... Ben Stiller was in "Something About Mary" AND "Empire of the Sun."Edmund Purdom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Wow, we're getting obscure here. I know him from a crappy horror movie called Pieces but there are no decent links from that movie so I'm stuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Edmund Purdom was in The Rift with R. Lee Ermey, who was in Mississippi Burning with Gene Hackman, who was, of course, in Superman.William Olsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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