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Holden Pike 10-30-07 06:05 PM

Surprising Hollywood Celebrity Relations
 
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OK, I think even the most casual of film fans realizes Michael Douglas is Kirk's son and Jane Fonda is Henry's daughter, but what are some of those less obvious familial relations in Hollywood. And not marriages, as those shift so darn often even the people involved have a hard time keeping 'em straight. Who are some blood relations you maybe didn't realize for years (or until you read this thread)?


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  • Even though they have the same last name, Randy and Dennis Quaid are such opposites in the looks department, there are probably many who don't put it together that these two are brothers. To date the only film where they've both appeared is in Walter Hill's The Long Riders (1980) that used real-life brothers to play the various siblings in the James-Younger Gang (James & Stacey Keach as Frank & Jesse James, David, Keith & Robert Carradine played the Youngers, Christopher & Nicholas Guest played Charlie & Bob Ford and the Quaids were the Miller Brothers).
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  • Julia and Eric Roberts are brother and sister, though you hardly ever see them together. Eric hasn't traveled in the A-List circles for years, though big brother had an Oscar nomination before Julia had even booked her first movie. Even taking time off to start a family Julia is an Oscar-winning international superstar. They've only appeared in one film together, Blood Red (1989), a straight-to-videoer starring Eric where Julia has a small cameo-sized role, just before she hit it big in Pretty Woman. And now there is a new generation on the screen, as Eric's daughter Emma Roberts has been building a career, first as a child actress in the likes of Aquamarine and Nancy Drew, but transitioning into older roles in We're the Millers, Palo Alto, and "American Horror Story".
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  • Oscar winners Warren Beatty & Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister. This will not be a surprise to anybody over the age of forty, but with neither making a whole lot of movies anymore it would be easy for a younger, newer movie fan to have missed the connection of these two Oscar-winning cinema icons with different last names.
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  • I mentioned this in my Albert Brooks appreciation thread, but Albert and Bob Einstein (a.k.a. "Super Dave" Osbourne) are brothers. And yes, that does mean Albert's birth name is Albert Einstein. And yes, his parents did have a sense of humor. Dad was Borscht-Belt comic Harry Parke (a.k.a. Parkyakarkus), who literally died on-stage as he had a heart attack while sitting on the dias at a Friar's Club roast. Albert and Bob are in one film together: Bob has a great scene as a sporting goods salesman in Albert’s brilliant Modern Romance (1981). And while neither one of them is exactly a looker in Hollywood terms, the tall, lanky, gravely-voiced Einstein and Albert, much like the Quaids, don’t exactly look much like brothers, either.
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  • Isabella Rossellini is the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Italian neo-realist director Roberto Rossellini. This should be clear from the combination of Isabella's last name at the fact that she looks so much like Mom, but again younger filmgoers might never have made the connection (Casablanca and Rome, Open City are not the first things racing through ones mind as you watch say Blue Velvet). There are two really cool projects that highlight Isabella's link to her folks. The first is an episode of HBO's "Tales from the Crypt" called "You Murderer", a Bob Zemeckis directed piece years before Forrest Gump that has Isabella basically made up to look like Ingrid as a computer-generated Humphrey Bogart interacts with her (and John Lithgow). The second and even more dead-on is the short film "My Dad is 100-Years-Old", written and conceived by Isabella and directed by Guy Maddin where she has a surreal and really wonderful conversation with her father (represented as a gigantic, talking belly) as well as her Mom and film luminaries such as Hitchcock, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin (all played by Isabella).
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  • Melanie Griffith is the daughter of Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock's The Birds and Marnie. They're both in the thriller Pacific Heights (1990) together, but Tippi has been more or less retired for years, focusing on her work with animal sanctuaries. These days Melanie mostly serves as a cautionary tale of cosmetic surgery run amok, but Dakota Johnson, her daughter with then-husband Don Johnson, is quickly becoming known, having starred on the too-short-lived sitcom "Ben & Kate" and will soon be everywhere as Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey.
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  • Jennifer Jason Leigh is the daughter of Vic Morrow and screenwriter Barbra Turner. Morrow worked steadily from the '50s to the '80s, starring in the TV series "Combat", and the movies The Blackboard Jungle and The Bad News Bears. He was infamously killed on the set of The Twilight Zone: The Movie in the segment directed by John Landis when a helicopter went out of control and decapitated Morrow and two young actors during a scene.
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  • Griffin Dunne (An American Werewolf in London, After Hours and now a director) is the son of author/TV host Dominick Dunne. Griffin's sister (and Dominick's daughter) was Dominique Dunne, the actress who played the elder daughter in Poltergeist, who was killed months later in real life just as her star was rising by a crazed ex-boyfriend.
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  • Miguel Ferrer (RoboCop, Traffic, "Crossing Jordan") is the son of Oscar-winning actor José Ferrer (The Caine Mutiny, Lawrence of Arabia, Cyrano DeBergerac) and singing star Rosemary Clooney. George Clooney is the nephew of Rosemary, which makes Miguel and George cousins.
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  • Hopefully this family is pretty well known to most everybody and obvious, but director Francis Ford Coppola is the Uncle of Nic Coppola - who changed his name to Nicolas Cage. And Francis' sister, actress Talia Shire, her son is Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore's Max Fischer). This makes Francis Uncle to him too, and he and Cage are cousins. And of course they're both the cousins of Francis' kids, Sofia and Roman Coppola, who are both now directors themselves.
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There are many others, but I'll save them for subsequent posts. So which have you found surprising?

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Sir Toose 10-30-07 06:22 PM

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Beautiful thread!

I knew some but I didn't know (and was thereby surprised by) about:

Melanie Griffith is the daughter of Tippi Hedren.
Jennifer Jason Leigh is the daughter of Vic Morrow.
Isabella Rossellini is the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Italian neo-realist director Roberto Rossellini.

I was surprised when I found about George Clooney & Miguel Ferrer several years ago.


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Griffin, around the chin and mouth, is really looking like his dad these days.

Sedai 10-30-07 06:33 PM

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What I found out that is NOT surprising, is that I am a jack ass. How I missed the connection between Dominique Dunne and my pal Griffin, I don't know, but I did. Not that it was obvious at all. Oh wait...It was completely obvious. I also didn't know Jennifer Jason Leigh was related to Vic Morrow (RIP).

Sir Toose 10-30-07 06:46 PM

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By the way, just to add to one of the relationships established herein, if you caught the summer release of

Nancy Drew
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You would have been face to face for a few hours with Eric Robert's daughter Emma (niece of Julia Roberts).

I remember the first time I saw her on a show called "Unfabulous" (which my daughter loves) that her smile looked very familiar to me. It didn't take long to register that she looks a whole lot like her aunt Julia and I had to go ferret her out on IMDB to verify.

Mrs. Darcy 10-30-07 09:10 PM

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Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People) is the son of James Hutton (Ellery Queen)


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Mrs. Darcy 10-30-07 09:15 PM

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Oh, and I know this one because my mom told me years ago.

James Arness and Peter Graves are brothers.


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Memnon 10-30-07 10:14 PM

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I may be stating an obvious one here, but just in case;

There is Martin Sheen - father to Emilio Estevez (and Charlie Sheen of course)

Sinny McGuffins 10-30-07 10:53 PM

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I had no idea that the brilliant Jason Schwartzman is apart of the brilliant Coppola family. That's very cool.

I didn't know about all the others either, to be honest. That is, of course, apart from the obvious one that Memnon listed... ;)

Holden Pike 10-31-07 01:30 AM

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Here are a bunch that seem fairly well known to me, but you never know what people have missed in connecting the celebrity dots, so I'll run them down anyway...

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  • Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Janet Leigh (Psycho) and Tony Curtis (Some Like it Hot).
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  • Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings, Rudy, The Goonies) is the son of TV stars Patty Duke and John Astin ("The Addams Family").
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  • Carrie Fisher is the daughter of Debbie Reynolds (Singin' in the Rain) and singer Eddie Fisher. Actress Joley Fisher ("Ellen", "'Til Death") is half-sister to Carrie, Eddie's daughter by actress Connie Stevens (Grease 2).
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  • Gwyneth Paltrow is the daughter of Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents) and producer/director Bruce Paltrow ("St. Elsewhere", Duets).
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  • Liza Minnelli is the daughter of Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli (An American in Paris, The Bad & the Beautiful). Her half-sister Lorna Luft has had a minor career.
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  • Nastassja Kinski is the daughter of the legendary actor/nutball Klaus Kinski.
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  • The late River Phoenix's brother is Joaquin, who went by Leaf Phoenix when he was a child actor in movies like Parenthood. Their sisters, Rain and Summer Phoenix, have dabbled in acting, though never broke through like their brothers.
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  • And I mentioned them briefly above when I was talking about the Quaids, but to flesh that out classic character actor John Carradine's (The Grapes of Wrath, Billy the Kid vs. Dracula) sons are David ("Kung Fu", Bound for Glory, Kill Bill), Keith (Nashville, The Duellists, Choose Me) and Robert (Revenge of the Nerds, The Big Red One). Michael Bowen (Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, "Breaking Bad") is also one of John's sons. The boys are two sets of half-brothers, actually: Keith and Robert have the same mother, as do David and Michael Bowen. To further complicate things, some of them have offspring in the business, the most successful by far being Keith's daughter Martha Plimpton (The Goonies, Parenthood, "Raising Hope").
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Holden Pike 10-31-07 01:36 AM

"He is such a Baldwin!"
 
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One family that is so obvious they are commonly referred to and grouped together as siblings are the Baldwin Brothers: Alec (The Hunt for Red October, "30 Rock"), Daniel ("Homicide: Life on the Street"), Stephen (The Usual Suspects, Bio-Dome) and Billy (Backdraft, Sliver, The Squid & the Whale).

But in case anyone was confused over the years, actor Adam Baldwin (My Bodyguard, Full Metal Jacket, "Firefly") is not a "Baldwin Brother". Same last name, completely different family.

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mark f 10-31-07 01:38 AM

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I still like the Larry Hagman (son) http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/i-dream...annie-2366.jpg/
Mary Martin (mom) http://www.jmbarrie.net/photos/20mmPPpic1.jpg connection.

Plus, everybody knows that Olivia de Havilland http://www.nndb.com/people/741/00002...-havilland.jpg
and Joan Fontaine http://www.movieactors.com/photos/gunga93.jpeg
are sisters (and still alive and over 90.)

SamsoniteDelilah 10-31-07 02:04 AM

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Fun thread, Holden!

I'mna go against the grain and point out two I would have sworn were related, but it turns out they aren't:
Lauren Graham
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Anne Miller
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I just caught You Can't Take It With You a couple of weeks ago and noticed they have many of the same mannerisms. It's uncanny.

Holden Pike 10-31-07 02:07 AM

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  • Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear, Kalifornia) is the daughter of character actor Geoffrey Lewis, best known for his work with Clint Eastwood in the 1970s (Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, Thunderbolt & Lightfoot). Recently they have both made guest appearances on "My Name is Earl", though in different episodes and not playing characters who are related.
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  • Mia Farrow (Rosemary's Baby, Hannah & Her Sisters) is the daughter of actress Maureen O'Sullivan (best known as Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan) and director John Farrow (Hondo, The Big Clock).
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  • Oscar winning actresses Olivia de Havilland (The Snake Pit, The Heiress, Gone with the Wind) and Joan Fontaine (Rebecca, Suspicion, Jane Eyre) are sisters.
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  • Emmy-winner Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: Special Victims Unit") is the daughter of the buxom cult actress and pin-up Jayne Mansfield (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) and bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay. Mariska and her brother were both in the car the night of Jayne's fatal accident, though the legend that Mansfield was beheaded has been explained time and time again that it was only her wig that was seen on the road that night. But the rumor persists - too juicy and bloody to ever fade due to something as insignificant as the truth. A bit of Hollywood Babylon that will never die, despite the facts.

    Her Dad Mickey just passed back in 2006 (he and Jayne had divorced a few years before the auto accident, and he was not in the car that night). He even guest starred on an episode of "Law & Order: SVU" in 2003 (though not playing Mariska's character's father).

    *BTW, there's a 1980 made-for-TV biopic called simply "The Jayne Mansfield Story" starring Loni Anderson as the famously busty Jayne and Arnold Swarzenegger as the muscled Mickey. Sounds like I'm making that up, but it's true.
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Holden Pike 10-31-07 02:31 AM

Some new links coming to theaters recently...
 
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  • Eva Amurri (Saved!, The Banger Sisters, "Californication") is Susan Sarandon's daughter. Though the last name should tell you she wasn't conceived by either of her mother's actor partners, Chris Sarandon (The Princess Bride) or Tim Robbins, but by writer/director Franco Amurri, with whom Susan had a relationship in the '80s, between leaving Chris and finding Tim.
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  • Schuyler Fisk (Orange County, The Baby-Sitter's Club) is the daughter of Oscar-winning actress Sissy Spacek and production designer/director Jack Fisk (Badlands, Mulholland Dr., Raggedy Man).
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  • Schuyler's Orange County co-star Colin Hanks, also seen in Peter Jackson's King Kong and the TV series "Roswell", is obviously the son of Tom Hanks ("Bosom Buddies", Bachelor Party, Bonfire of the Vanities). Though he's one of the kid's from Tom's first marriage. Rita Wilson is Colin's stepmom.
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Misterking 10-31-07 02:45 AM

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Great thread! But why, oh why anyone would change their name when they were born Albert Einstein is beyond me. :D

Mrs. Darcy 10-31-07 09:36 AM

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Stella Keitel is Harvey Keitel and Lorraine Bracco's daughter.

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Mrs. Darcy 10-31-07 09:51 AM

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David Cassidy (Partridge Family) and Shaun Cassidy (The Hardy Boys) are half brothers. Shirley Jones is Sean's mother, and David's step-mom (I think you need to be *ahem* mature to remember these two fellas. They were popular awhile ago...). They have another brother, Patrick, also.

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Sir Toose 10-31-07 09:53 AM

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I can see this thread becoming one of my favorites rather quickly.


I was surprised to find sometime shortly after watching The Sure Thing, that
Joan Cusack
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who I loved a few years before in My Bodyguard, is the sister of

John Cusack
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..who everyone knows from one movie or another.

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  • Jackie Coogan ("The Addams Family", Chaplin's The Kid) is the grandfather of Keith Coogan (Adventures in Babysitting, Hiding Out, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead).
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  • Ione Skye (Say Anything..., The Rachel Papers, The River's Edge, Zodiac) is the daughter of '60s pop star Donovan ("Mellow Yellow", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "Season of the Witch", "Sunshine Superman"). Ione's brother and Dad's namesake, Donovan Leitch (Jr.), is also a sometimes actor/singer (I Shot Andy Warhol, Glory), though not as successfully as his sister or his poppa.
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  • Gabby Hoffman (Uncle Buck, Sleepless in Seattle, 200 Cigarettes) is the daughter of '60s radical icon Abbie Hoffman.
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  • John Ritter ("Three's Company", Sling Blade) is the son of recording star "Tex" Ritter ("Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'"). John's son, Jason Ritter, is now forging a career of his own, starring in the TV shows "The Class" and "Joan of Arcadia" and films such as Happy Endings.
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  • Sigourney Weaver is the daughter of Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, president of NBC in the '50s and widely acknowledged as one of the forces in the creation of television in its Golden Age, virtually inventing the formats of the morning show (with "The Today Show") and the late night talkshow (with "The Tonight Show"). Pat's brother, Winstead "Doodles" Weaver, was a comedian who was part of Spike Jones' troupe and had his own daily kid's TV show in Los Angeles in the 1950s.
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Holden Pike 10-31-07 10:21 AM

And more Cusacks (and Pivens, too)...
 
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I was surprised to find sometime shortly after watching The Sure Thing that Joan Cusack, who I loved a few years before in My Bodyguard, is the sister of John Cusack, who everyone knows from one movie or another.
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Yes, Joan and John are brother and sister, both started as child actors, and they have three other siblings in the business: Ann, Susie and Bill. Though none of them has had anywhere near the kind of success that Joan and John have enjoyed. Ann gets the most work of the other three, mostly TV guest stuff, and the first time I noticed her and said, 'Oh, GOD, she's a Cusack, too' was in Grosse Pointe Blank: she plays the drunken classmate who comes up to John and Minnie Driver in the bar (the night before the reunion). Their father, Dick Cusack, was a Chicago-based actor, playwright, and filmmaker. The Jack Bull, an HBO movie that John starred in, was written by his Dad. In the picture in the bottom left corner above, he's the guy in the glasses.

The fella next to him, pointing with the beard, is Byrne Piven. He is an actor and teacher who is of course the father of Jeremy Piven ("Entourage"). The Cusack brood all studied at the Piven Theatre Workshop, in Evanston, Illinois. So in case you didn't know, that's why John and Jeremy are (or were, if the tabloid rumors of their recent tiff are true) such good friends, and why Jeremy appeared in so many of John's films over the years. Jeremy's sister, Shira, has dabbled in acting and is married to writer/director Adam McKay, a former improv actor who has gone on to success as the head writer of "SNL" before hitting the movies with Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and those "controversial" short films for the internet with Will Ferrell being terrorized by a foul-mouthed toddler. That little girl is Pearl McKay, Adam and Shira Piven's daughter and (duh) Jeremy's niece.


Sir Toose 10-31-07 10:39 AM

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I always thought that Keith Coogan was somehow related to Billy Mumy since they look so much alike (to me). I just did some digging and see that I was mistaken.

Bill Mumy,
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though has been much busier than I imagined since his Little Googie (Munsters) and Lost in Space days, check his resume at IMDB.

Also, interesting to note, Bill's daughter,
Liliana Mumy
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has been busy herself establishing a Hollywood resume. You've likely seen her in both Cheaper by the Dozen installments of late as well as in Santa Clause 2 with Tim Allen.

Holden Pike 10-31-07 10:50 AM

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And speaking of Chicago families, not a surprising group but for the record I give you the Murray brothers: Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray (Caddyshack, Modern Problems, Cabin Boy), Joel Murray ("Dharma & Greg", One Crazy Summer, "Mad Men") and John Murray (Moving Violations). The only movie to feature all four of them is Scrooged (though not all in the same scene), and they did all have a brief four-episode series on Comedy Central a couple years ago about golf called "The Sweet Spot". The Murrays have five other brothers and sisters (yes, you did the math correctly: that makes NINE of 'em) who are not in showbiz.

And if you've ever wondered why Brian uses the hyphenated Doyle-Murray instead of Murray like his younger brothers, there was already a Brian Murray in Actor's Equity when he first got his SAG card, and the guild has pretty strict rules about not doubling up on professional monikers. This has forced many actors and actresses to change their names over the years, or at least to use a middle name or initial. Brian chose to go with Doyle-Murray, as Doyle is his Grandmother's maiden name.


Holden Pike 10-31-07 11:14 AM

No, not the city in Texas...
 
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And another that I take for granted people know, the Hustons! Legendary writer/director/actor John Huston's father, Walter Huston, was a distinguished and successful actor (Dodsworth, The Devil & Daniel Webster, Duel in the Sun) who near the end of his career was given the role of his life and earned an Oscar (after three previous nominations) in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. And surely everybody knows Anjelica Huston is John's daughter, especially since at the end of his own career he guided her to an Oscar for her work in Prizzi's Honor. The one that some might not have caught onto yet is Danny Huston, also John's son (though only half-brother to Anjelica). Danny has been working a lot in recent years, including The Proposition, The Constant Gardener, Children of Men and currently one of the lead vampires in 30 Days of Night.

hippinhippie 10-31-07 12:30 PM

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Laura Dern the daughter of
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Holden Pike 10-31-07 12:43 PM

For fans of '70s and '80s American TV...
 
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  • Papa John Phillips of '60s folk group The Mamas & the Papas, his daughter is Mackenzie Phillips (American Graffiti, "One Day at a Time"). Michelle Phillips, also of the Mamas & Papas, John's wife for a time and later an actress ("Falcon Crest", Let it Ride), is not Mackenzie's mother. John and Michelle did have a daughter together who is a singer/actress, and that's Chynna Phillips, one-third of the pop group Wilson-Phillips. And Chynna is married to Billy Baldwin, so their daughter Jamison (still only seven-years-old, not yet an actress or singer but stay tuned) is a Baldwin-Phillips. Another one of John Phillips' kids, though by a different mother than Mackenzie, is model/singer/actress Bijou Phillips.

    Mamas and Papas indeed.
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  • Nancy McKeon, Jo on the long-running sitcom "The Facts of Life", is the younger sister of Philip McKeon, who was Tommy on the long-running sitcom "Alice".
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  • Justine Bateman from the '80s hit "Family Ties" is the older sister of Jason Bateman, who was in '80s sitcoms like "Valarie"/"The Hogan Family" and Teen Wolf Too as a young actor, but is enjoying a much more successful second career now, thanks to the wonderful and sadly short-lived "Arrested Development". Toward the end of that series Justine had a great role as somebody Jason's character was sure was his long-lost secret sister, but she was only a high-class prostitute...who kept trying to get him into bed.


Holden Pike 10-31-07 12:50 PM

And speaking of "Alice"...
 
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Yup. And of course she's the daughter of Diane Ladd (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Something Wicked This Way Comes). Diane Ladd has two Oscar nominations in movies she did with her daughter, Rambling Rose and Wild at Heart. The dual nominations Diane and Laura received for Rambling Rose was the first time a mother and daughter both got Oscar nods in the same film (though neither won: Mercedes Ruehl got Supporting for The Fisher King and Jodie Foster got Actress for Silence of the Lambs).


Sexy Celebrity 10-31-07 12:54 PM

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The Melanie Griffith/Tippi Hedren relation surprised me the most...

But nothing could surprise me more than what I heard last night. In the world of politics, apparently Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are eighth cousins!

Holden Pike 10-31-07 12:56 PM

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But nothing could surprise me more than what I heard last night. In the world of politics, apparently Dick Cheney and Barack Obama are eighth cousins!
Yeah, that was revealed a few weeks ago, leaving Obama to quip on "The Tonight Show" shortly after, "But I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party."

Holden Pike 11-01-07 12:04 AM

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  • "Bewitched" star Elizabeth Montgomery is the daughter of '30s and '40s actor Robert Montgomery (Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Lady in the Lake).
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  • It shouldn't be much of a secret that Goldie Hawn's daughter is Kate Hudson (Almost Famous). But as should be clear from the last name, she is not the daughter of Goldie's longtime companion Kurt Russell. No, Kate is the daughter of Bill Hudson, who was married to Goldie from 1976-1979. Bill was part of the '70s pop/rock group The Hudson Brothers with siblings Brett and Mark. They had a few radio hits, the biggest being "So You Are a Star" which got as high as #21 on the 1974 Billboard charts. They even had a short-lived variety show on CBS in the '74/'75 season (it was the 1970s; everybody got their own variety show). Their last grasp at fame came with the 1983 would-be comedy spoof Hysterical, which hoped to do for horror movies what Airplane! did for disaster movies. It didn't.
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  • Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing, Ferris Bueller's Day Off) is the daughter of Oscar-winner and Broadway legend Joel Grey (Cabaret). He never put Baby in the corner. Probably quite a few times she had a booth at Sardi's, but never just a plain old corner, and certainly never told she couldn't dance.
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  • Adam Arkin ("Chicago Hope", "Northern Exposure") is the son of Oscar-winner Alan Arkin (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Little Miss Sunshine). The only movies to really feature both of them are two dogs from 1981, Full Moon High and Chu Chu and the Philly Flash.
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  • Director/writer/producer/sometimes actor Garry Marshall ("Happy Days", Pretty Woman, Lost in America) is the brother of director/former actress Penny Marshall ("Laverne & Shirley", Big, A League of Their Own).
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  • Penny's ex-husband actor/writer/director Rob Reiner ("All in the Family", This is Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally...) is the son of the great actor/writer/director Carl Reiner ("Your Show of Shows", "The Dick Van Dyke Show", The Jerk, Ocean's Eleven).
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  • TV icon and Oscar-winning director Ron "Opie Cunningham" Howard puts brother Clint Howard in just about all of his movies, at least in cameo roles. Although he never enjoyed the success of an "Andy Griffith Show" or "Happy Days", Clint too was a child actor, starring in "Gentle Ben" and a memorable guest spot on the original "Star Trek". I believe Clint has been in all of the movies Ron has directed save for A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code. He's also become a bit of a cult figure and appears in modern B-movies. Their Dad, Rance Howard, is a character actor who in addition to many of Ron's movies has done bit parts in flicks from filmmakers like Roman Polanski, Peter Weir, Tim Burton, Joe Dante, Rob Reiner and Gus Van Sant.
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Slug 11-01-07 08:57 AM

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Rob and Chad Lowe are brothers. Rob has acted in 80s teen movies, and is currently on TV in Brothers and Sisters. Chad played a young man with AIDS on TVs Life Goes On, and was married to Hillary Swank until recently.


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Mrs. Darcy 11-01-07 09:09 AM

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Prolific actors Patty Duke of Helen Keller and John Astin of The Addams Family had children Sean Astin of Rudy and Lord of the Rings fame, and Mackenzie Astin, who's been in movies and on TV. John adopted Sean when he was a child, his biological dad is Michael Tell.

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hippinhippie 11-01-07 12:17 PM

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Angelina Joliehttp://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...ppie/Jolie.jpg

Daughter Of:http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...JonVoight_.jpg

Daughter Of: Marcheline Bertrand(Sorry No Photo)

Niece Of: Chip Taylor writer of "Wild Thing" (Sorry No Photo)

God Daughter Of: Jacqueline Bissethttp://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...acqueline_.jpg

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Writer/director Rebecca Miller (Personal Velocity, The Balld of Jack & Rose) is the daughter of the great American playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible). Rebecca met her husband, Daniel Day-Lewis, on the 1996 movie version of The Crucible, the screenplay of which Arthur had adapted himself. Rebecca's mother is photographer Inge Morath, Arthur's third wife, who he met when she came to take pictures of just-divorced wife Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits. Arthur's sister is actress Joan Copeland, who has worked steadily mostly in television starting in the late 1950s on everything from "One Life to Live" to "Law & Order".


Sir Toose 11-06-07 11:13 AM

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There can be little doubt that anyone has managed to escape Disney's latest kid show/marketing blitzkreig that is, in all its glorious splendor, Hannah Montana. I happen to have a daughter who is in the demographic and man is she nuts for this show. Hannah Montana though is not only a hit tv show, but a concert attraction that has outsold nearly everything in the past. At the Houston rodeo this year, Hannah Montana had the highest grossing sales of any act in the past and believe me when I tell you that this is an accomplishment considering Garth Brooks, ZZ Top, and similar big name acts have performed at the rodeo.

So, Hannah Montana is played by one Miley Cyrus. Miley plays dual roles in the show as Hannah and as herself which is the hook of the show. She lives a double life as a regular kid and as a teen queen popstar. Anyways, enough of that.

Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana:
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is the daughter of one time recording superstar Billy Ray Cyrus (he of the Achy Breaky Heart):
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More interesting to note though is that Miley's co star, Emily Osment:
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is the little sister of box office powerhouse Haley Joel Osment:
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Both are the kids of Eugene Osment (far left):
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who has appeared in relatively minor roles in Secondhand Lions, Minority Report, Artificial Intelligence AI, Pay it Forward and Baby Geniuses.

There, all you never wanted to know about Hannah Montana.

Aniko 11-06-07 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Sir Toose (Post 391549)
At the Houston rodeo this year, Hannah Montana had the highest grossing sales of any act in the past and believe me when I tell you that this is an accomplishment considering Garth Brooks, ZZ Top, and similar big name acts have performed at the rodeo.
On a getting off track side note...
It's funny you mentioned Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana...there was big article on her and web scalping boosting ticket prices. If you're interested go here...
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In a side bar from USA Today...
The average resale ticket price per ticket among current top draws:
Miley Cyrus/ Hannah Montana: $249
Bon Jovi: $244
Bruce Springsteen: $228
Van Halen: $215
The Police: $210
Garth Brooks: $158
Dave Matthews Band: $138
Source: StubHub
Pretty amazing for a girl of 14.


Anyhooo...back on topic... :D
Fortunately, my daughter's not into Hannah Montana so I didn't know Billy Ray Cyrus was her dad. Cool.


You just reminded me of Liv Tyler and Steven Tyler. I know it's old news now, but I just thought I'd mention it.
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Mrs. Darcy 11-06-07 09:20 PM

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Jason Connery is the son of Sean Connery and Diane Cilento. He's been in Shanghai Noon and Wishmaster III, and was married to Mia Sara of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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SamsoniteDelilah 11-06-07 09:32 PM

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Christian Bale's stepmother is Gloria Steinem.
photos to come, time for me to leave work...

Sir Toose 11-07-07 01:07 PM

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An interesting tidbit:

This kid, Patrick:
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Who starred in this movie:
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as an evil jock type is this guy's son:
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See?
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Patrick has a sister who has her dad's nose, brows and eyes.
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Cute kids :)

Mrs. Darcy 11-07-07 11:04 PM

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Zooey Dechanel of Failure to Launch and Elf is the sister of Emily Deschanel of TVs Bones. Their father is Oscar nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, who's done The Right Stuff, The Patriot, The Natural, and The Passion of the Christ.

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Sir Toose 11-09-07 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Darcy (Post 391849)
Zooey Dechanel of Failure to Launch and Elf ...
That voice, those eyes, ... scha-wing! :D

Sir Toose 11-19-07 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 390419)
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TV icon and Oscar-winning director Ron "Opie Cunningham" Howard puts brother Clint Howard in just about all of his movies, at least in cameo roles. Although he never enjoyed the success of an "Andy Griffith Show" or "Happy Days", Clint too was a child actor, starring in "Gentle Ben" and a memorable guest spot on the original "Star Trek". I believe Clint has been in all of the movies Ron has directed save for A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code. He's also become a bit of a cult figure and appears in modern B-movies. Their Dad, Rance Howard, is a character actor who in addition to many of Ron's movies has done bit parts in flicks from filmmakers like Roman Polanski, Peter Weir, Tim Burton, Joe Dante, Rob Reiner and Gus Van Sant.
Just an addition to your post, Holden, I just very recently discovered that Bryce Dallas Howard, of The Village and Lady in the Water fame, is Ron Howard's daughter:
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Mrs. Darcy 11-27-07 09:18 AM

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Have we done the Richardsons and Redgraves yet?

Vanessa (Julia, Camelot) and Michael Redgrave (Mourning Becomes Electra) are the parents of Joely (Nip/Tuck) and Natasha Richardson (Nell, The Parent Trap).

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Holden Pike 11-27-07 09:38 AM

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Vanessa (Julia, Camelot) and Michael Redgrave (Mourning Becomes Electra) are the parents of Joely (Nip/Tuck) and Natasha Richardson (Nell, The Parent Trap).
Ewwww, grody. Is Chinatown their favorite movie? ;)

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Sir Michael Redgrave is the father of both Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. Actress Rachel Kempson is their mother. Vanessa and Lynn have a brother, Corin, who is also an actor (In the Name of the Father, The Girl in the Café). Vanessa Redgrave's first husband was director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones, Look Back in Anger). Vanessa Redgrave and Tony Richardson's two daughters are Natasha and Joely Richardson, making Michael Redgrave their Grandfather and Lynn their Aunt.

But you were close. Just not as surprising as you thought. Perhaps? :D


*as an aside, I hope that Angelina Jolie and Joely Richardson are Gay Married someday. Not just because it'd be hot and I'm sure a lovely ceremony, but because Ms. Richardson could change her name to Joely Jolie (come on: you know Angelina would be the "man" in that relationship...she may be the man in any relationship). Joely Jolie would be like Marcel Marceau, only damn sexy.

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Mrs. Darcy 11-27-07 10:09 AM

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crap, Holden, ya got me! Thanks for the fix, hon.

Mrs. Darcy 11-28-07 09:02 AM

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Okay, gonna try this again, but I'm keeping it simple!

Tyne Daly of Cagney and Lacey fame, is the sister of Tim Daly of Wings and Private Practice.

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Ðèstîñy 11-28-07 02:09 PM

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Yes, Joan and John are brother and sister, and they have three other siblings in the business, Ann, Susie and Bill, though none of them has had anywhere near the kind of success that Joan and John have enjoyed. Ann gets the most work of the other three, mostly TV guest stuff, and the first time I noticed her and said, 'Oh, GOD, she's a Cusack too' was in Grosse Pointe Blank . . .
Yep, I think the Cusacks are easy to spot, and I did the same thing, except it was when I first saw Stigmata. The second she was on the screen, I said, "She's a Cusack, too!"

That reminds me, has the Arquette family been mentioned? I'll go double check . . .

Holden Pike 11-28-07 02:33 PM

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And I don't mention this one because it's so surprising, as anyone who knows who Charlie McCarthy is must be well aware of the link, but the great ventriloquist Edgar Bergan is the father of Candice Bergen. Egdar's wife and Candy's Mom was Frances Westerman, who was a model and best known as The Chesterfield cigarette girl. I was reminded of this one last week when TCM was running a bunch of Edgar's movies with Charlie and Mortimer Snerd (his puppets). As inherently silly as this sounds, Edgar Bergan was a huge radio star. I mean, I could be a convincing ventriloquist on radio, but his characters were beloved, and he and his wooden friends did become movie and television stars, too. Candice of course started coming to prominence as an actress in the 1970s and enjoyed her greatest popularity in the '80s and early '90s as the titular star of the sitcom "Murphy Brown". Candy tells tales of Charlie McCarthy having his own room and bed in their home, and that he was often referred to as her brother.


Mrs. Darcy 11-28-07 08:39 PM

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Lionel Barrymore (It's a Wonderful Life), is the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore (E.T., Charlie's Angels).


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mark f 11-28-07 09:11 PM

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That's a good connect, but now you've opened up a can of worms with all the Barrymore acting clan.

Of course, the Great Profile, John Barrymore, is her grandfather, and Dolores Costello (The Magnificent Ambersons) is her grandmother. That would also make Ethel Barrymore (Pinky) her great-aunt. John and Dolores' son, John Drew Barrymore, is Drew's pop. His main claim to fame is for a few westerns and his role as a dope dealer in High School Confidential! (1958). I believe there are a few more acting relations in the timeline, including som of Drew's siblings. I'm stopping now though because I'm guessing Holden may have discussed this somewhere.

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Holden Pike 11-28-07 09:24 PM

Mark beat me to much of this, but...
 
*Mark beat me to some of this, but anyway...

Originally Posted by Mrs. Darcy
Lionel Barrymore (It's a Wonderful Life), is the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore (E.T., Charlie's Angels).

Well, you left out the rest of the Barrymore clan, but yes, Drew is of the famous Barrymore acting family. Ethel, John and Lionel are sister and brothers, all renowned, legendary thespians of the stage and screen in the first half of the 20th Century. But their theatrical lineage extends well before the movies to their parents Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew, who were stars of the stage in the 1870s and 1880s. Georgiana's mother (which makes her Drew's great-great grandmother) Louisa Lane Drew was an actress, manager and theatre owner (she appeared in plays with John Wilkes Booth, fer cripe's sake).

So John Barrymore is Drew's grandfather, Lionel and Ethel are great uncle and great aunt to her...though all three had long since passed before Drew was even born. John Barrymore worked in films, but his legend was built as a stage actor, where he is still revered. Drew's Dad, John Drew Barrymore, was an actor as well, though he never lived up to the legendary Barrymore name. Drew's half-brother, John Blyth Barrymore, had a middling career like his father's. Ethel Barrymore had three children, none of whom really did anything in the business. Lionel had two children, but they also never made it in showbiz. The acting success gene apparently skipped that generation completely and landed fully on Drew.

mark f 11-28-07 09:27 PM

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And so he did...:cool:

Holden Pike 11-28-07 10:04 PM

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With such an unusual name, there's not much surprise in this, but for the record Rosanna Arquette (After Hours, Desperately Seeking Susan), Patricia Arquette (True Romance, Flirting with Disaster) and David Arquette (Scream, 3000 Miles to Graceland) are all siblings. They also have two other brothers, Richmond, who has had some very minor roles in film and TV projects, and Robert. Robert is also in showbiz, and started as a child actor (he was the boy on the carnival ride in The Tubes' famous video "She's a Lady", for all you '80s music and MTV fans). But Robert is now the transgendered Alexis Arquette, mostly infamous as a "celebrity" rather than an actor/actress and appeared on one season of the VH1 reality show "The Surreal Life" with other has-beens and never-wases from the D-List.

All five of them are all the children of character actor Lewis Arquette, who worked for years without ever becoming a star. But he did lots of television work in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and his most memorable film role is probably the local farmer who becomes the narrator of the atrocious play in Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman. Lewis' father was Cliff Arquette, who was a comedian, actor and musician who had his greatest pop cultural impact as his character Charlie Weaver, initially created for Jack Parr's "Tonight Show" in 1959, and whom subsequently made many television and commerical appearances, always as Weaver, including on the original version of the gameshow "The Hollywood Squares".


Ðèstîñy 11-28-07 10:25 PM

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Thank you! I didn't know about Richmond, until I ran a search today. I still haven't looked at his list, to be able to say if I've seen anything that he has been in. Alexis, on the other hand, I remember best from the not so popular, but I like it, The Wedding Singer. He pulled off a near perfect Boy George, in my opinion.

Holden Pike 11-28-07 10:32 PM

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William Katt, probably still best known as the star of the cult '80s TV show "The Greatest American Hero", is the son of actor Bill Williams (star of the early '50s Western series "The Adventures of Kit Carson") and TV icon Barbara Hale, forever known as faithful Della Street to Raymond Burr's "Perry Mason", a role she originated in the 1957-1966 run of that show and brought back for a couple dozen Perry Mason TV movies in the 1980s and 1990s (Burr died in 1993). Barbara appears in Big Wednesday, John Milius' surfing movie that starred William Katt, and Katt later played Paul Drake Jr. in a bunch of those initial "Perry Mason" movies in the 1980s.


mark f 11-29-07 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 396373)
I waited for Mark to note this one, but...

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William Katt, probably still best known as the star of the cult '80s TV show "The Greatest American Hero", is the son of actor Bill Williams (star of the early '50s Western series "The Adventures of Kit Carson") and TV icon Barbara Hale, forever known as faithful Della Street to Raymond Burr's "Perry Mason", a role she originated in the 1957-1966 run of that show and brought back for a couple dozen Perry Mason TV movies in the 1980s and 1990s (Burr died in 1993). Barbara appears in Big Wednesday, John Milius' surfing movie that starred William Katt, and Katt later played Paul Drake Jr. in a bunch of those initial "Perry Mason" movies in the 1980s.
Maybe it's true I mentioned that one at MovieJustice, but I can't remember anymore. :cool:

Ðèstîñy 11-29-07 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 396373)
I love him in the movie, House. It's cheesy, but it's great. My daughter watches it a lot. Maybe I should get The Greatest American Hero for her to check out. I can't remember one thing about that show, though. Is he a clutsy superhero?

Holden Pike 11-29-07 03:32 AM

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Yeah, I like House (1986) a lot, too. The scene where he's trying to bury the body to "This is Dedicated to the One I Love" is superb.

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"The Greatest American Hero" is fun, definitely worth a rental anyway. Katt played a High School teacher named Ralph Hinkley who, long story short, one night meets both an F.B.I. Agent named Bill Maxwell (the great Robert Culp) and a spaceship in the desert. The E.T.s give Ralph the "super suit" which has special powers he can use, with Maxwell's guidance, to battle evil doers. The hitch comes in that they lose the instruction manual that first night, so Ralph is always discovering new powers and never sure how to control or master them. Ralph is essential a decent, peaceful guy, and Bill Maxwell is a shoot first and ask questions later type, so there's always that clash of personalities. Ralph also has a girlfriend who is a lawyer, played by Connie Sellecca, and a class full of "troubled" tough kids (I call them kids, but they all had to be in their mid to late twenties) led by Michael Paré (Eddie & the Cruisers, Streets of Fire) and Faye Grant ("V"), all of whom also get sucked into the various plots of espionage.

It's essentially a combo of an action show and a comedy, with this incompetent Superman thing to tie them together. It had a great pilot and good first season, and Katt and Culp in particular are just great in it, but truthfully it became a bit repetitive after a while (it lasted three seasons), and sometimes the writing went above what they could accomplish effects-wise on a tight weekly early 1980s budget. But it is worth taking a trip down memory lane for. The entire series is on R1 DVD. I think a kid would love it. I know I did when I was eleven and twelve and it was first on the air.

It was created by Stephen J. Cannell ("The Rockford Files", "The A-Team") and its most lasting impact may be the theme song, "Believe it or Not", sung by Joey Scarbury, which made it all the way to #2 on the Billboard Top 40 in 1981 and is still regularly played on the radio today ("Believe it or not I'm walkin' on air, I never thought I could feel so free-ee-ee, Flying away on a wing and a prayer, Who could it be? Believe it or not it's just me...").


Ðèstîñy 11-29-07 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 396418)
Yeah, I like House (1986) a lot, too. The scene where he's trying to bury the body to "This is Dedicated to the One I Love" is superb.
Yep, I love that scene. The sequel was decent. I have that one as well. It's nowhere near as good as the first, but it's still watchable, in my opinion. There is a part 3, but I haven't checked into it yet. I have no clue when they ended these.

Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 396418)
and sometimes the writing went above what they could accomplish effects-wise on a tight weekly budget.
I remember that now. Yeah, I'm for sure going to get this. I'm sure they will like it. Thanks again!

Holden Pike 11-30-07 11:47 AM

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Not a blood relation, but this was his boy...

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TV icon Carroll O'Connor had a son named Hugh. Hugh was born in Rome and adopted by Carroll and his wife while on location for Cleopatra (1963). As an adult Hugh co-starred on Carroll's 1988-1994 series "In the Heat of the Night" (adapted from the 1967 movie of the same name). Hugh O'Connor had beaten Hodgkin's Disease as a teenager, but also became addicted to narcotics. In and out of treatment and recovery for years for his addiction, Hugh took his own life with a handgun in 1995. A devastated and angry Carroll O'Connor cut public service announcements urging parents to "Get between your kid and drugs any way you can." He also went on a crusade on any talkshow that would have him, and when he named the coke dealer who sold Hugh his last drugs shortly before his suicide as a "partner in murder", the dealer had the balls to actually bring a $10-million lawsuit against Carroll for slander. The jury sided with O'Connor.


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This also isn't surprising given the famous name (and I covered it in my Eastwood thread), but Clint Eastwood has some kids in the business. His two oldest children, from his first marriage to Maggie Johnson, are Kyle and Alison. Kyle co-starred with Dad in Honkytonk Man (1982) when he was fourteen but gravitated to Clint's other passion, Jazz, and as an adult has become a respected and successful musician, primarily on the upright double bass. Alison Eastwood co-starred in one of Clint's movies as a child too, playing the older of his two daughters in Tightrope (1984) when she was twelve. As an adult she was in Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (1997) and then started a career as an actress on her own, appearing in small indie flicks such as Friends & Lovers and Just a Little Harmless Sex. She also did a shoot for Playboy, I'm happy to say. This year she took another stride in her father's footsteps by directing her first film, Rails & Ties (2007), starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden.

Clint has fathered other children over the years, illegitimately, though none with his longtime girlfriend Sondra Locke. Of those only his daughter with actress Frances Fisher, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood, has been in any of his movies. She played Clint's young daughter in True Crime (1999) at the age of six.


Sir Toose 11-30-07 08:32 PM

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I'm just trying to imagine the conversation around Alison telling her dad she's gonna be in next month's Playboy. :D

Maybe he was supportive, ya never know.

Ðèstîñy 11-30-07 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Sir Toose (Post 396827)
I'm just trying to imagine the conversation around Alison telling her dad she's gonna be in next month's Playboy. :D

Maybe he was supportive, ya never know.
My guess, although I doubt it thrilled him, he doesn't strike me as the type that would get mad at her choices there, or get too bent out of shape over it. I could picture him being supportive, before mad, is all I mean. Then again, what the hell do I know!?!

mark f 11-30-07 09:21 PM

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True, true. ;)

Mrs. Darcy 11-30-07 10:03 PM

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Actress Jennifer Grant (The Evening Star, Welcome to California) is the daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon ( Heaven Can Wait, Bob & Carol, Ted & Alice).

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Holden Pike 11-30-07 10:18 PM


Musician/Singer/Songwriter and Oscar-winning film composer Randy Newman is a Hollywood legacy. The Newmans are to American Cinematic Music what the Barrymores are to American Theater. Randy's Dad, Irving Newman, was a doctor and occasional songwriter. But all three of Irving's brothers were hugely successful composers and conductors in Hollywood: Alfred Newman (All About Eve, The Snake Pit, How Green was My Valley), Emil Newman (The Best Years of Our Lives, The Bishop's Wife, The Dark Corner) and Lionel Newman (Kiss of Death, I was a Male War Bride, Thieves' Highway). Until John Williams recently passed him, Alfred Newman held the record as the most Oscar-nominated composer ever with forty-four, including twenty consecutive years of nominations from 1938 to 1957, many of those years with multiple nods, and in 1940 alone he received four nominations...losing to The Wizard of Oz and Stagecoach. But don't feel sorry for Alfred, as he won nine Oscars in his long career. After all those scores, his most lasting and recognizable piece of music may well be the 20th Century Fox fanfare, still in use today by the many Fox entertainment outlets. Emil had one Oscar nomination and Lionel had eleven, with one win.

Randy Newman is by far the most famous and successful of their offspring, having had a unique and successful Pop Music career ("Short People", "I Love L.A.", "You Can Leave Your Hat On", "Mama Told Me Not to Come", "Rednecks", etc.) and a huge career as songwriter and composer for Hollywood (Ragtime, The Natural, Toy Story, etc.). Randy has seventeen Oscar nominations to date, and it wasn't until his sixteenth that he finally won one (for the score to Monsters, Inc.).

But Alfred's sons Thomas (American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Little Children) and David (The Freshman, The War of the Roses, Heathers) are both also successful composers (Thomas has eight Oscar noms so far, and David has one), and his daughter Maria is also a musician and composer. Lionel had three daughters, two of whom went into showbiz: Carroll Newman is a television producer and Jenifer Newman was a dancer.

Jenifer Newman's son is Joey Newman who is, what else, a Hollywood composer and conductor ("Once & Again", "Little People, Big World").


Holden Pike 11-30-07 10:30 PM

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Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (High Fidelity, "The 4400") is the daughter of Natalie Wood. Despite her last name, Natasha is not the daughter of Natalie's twice husband Robert Wagner, though he did adopt and raise her (Natasha was eleven when Natalie died). Natasha's biological father is Richard Gregson, a British producer and agent who was married to Natalie for two years between her marriages to Wagner. Natalie's younger sister Lana Wood was also an actress in the '60s and '70s, mostly B-movies and television work (she is Plenty O'Toole in the Connery Bond Diamonds are Forever with Jill St. John, who two decades later would marry Robert Wagner). One of Robert Wagner's other two daughters is also in showbiz, at least peripherally: Katie Wager, his daughter with second wife Marian Marshall, is a sometimes TV hostess/entertainment reporter, but not an actress. The daughter Robert and Natalie had together, Courtney Wager, has never acted.

Mrs. Darcy 12-01-07 01:24 AM

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Up-and-coming actor, Owen Kline of The Anniversary Party and The Squid and the Whale, is the son of Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda, Sophie's Choice) and Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont High). He has a younger sister, Greta, who appeared in the same movies as Owen, as did his parents.

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Holden Pike 12-01-07 02:03 AM

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And since we've left the surprising long ago and are just filling the thread with some more obvious links, here are some Juniors for the DUH file...
  • Freddie Prinze Jr. (Scooby-Doo, I KNow What You Did Last Summer) is the son of Freddie Prinze. The elder Prinze was an up-and-coming stand-up comic with a hit TV show, "Chico & the Man". But his addiction to drugs consumed him to the point that he committed suicide by gunshot at the age of twenty-two. Freddie Jr. was only an infant at the time.
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  • The great but often personally and legally troubled actor Robert Downey Jr. is the son of cult underground filmmaker Robert Downey (Putney Swope, Pound, Hugo Pool).
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  • The lanky, lispy actor and environmental activist Ed Begely Jr. ("St. Elsewhere", A Mighty Wind, Who Killed the Electric Car?) is the son of the stocky, gruff character actor Ed Begley (12 Angry Men, Hang 'Em High).

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Holden Pike 12-01-07 02:20 AM

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Oscar-winning actress Lee Grant (Shampoo, In the Heat of the Night, Defending Your Life) is the mother of Tony-winning actress Dinah Manoff ("Empty Nest", Grease, I Ought to Be in Pictures). Lee Grant had an impressive screen debut in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951), garnering an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress. But her career was essentially put on hold for over a decade when she refused to testify against her husband (and Dinah's father), playwrite and screenwriter Arnold Manoff, who was under investigation by the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee. Both Lee and Arnold were blacklisted. He managed to do some work for television under a pseudonym (see Martin Ritt's excellent movie The Front for how that worked during McCarthyism), but Grant barely worked at all until the mid 1960s.

Holden Pike 12-01-07 02:45 AM

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Actor Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Producers) is the son of actor James Broderick ("Family", Dog Day Afternoon, Alice's Restaurant). James died from cancer in 1982 at the age of fifty-five, just as Matthew was enjoying his success in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway and preparing for his big screen debut in Neil Simon's Max Dugan Returns. There is another James Broderick now, as Matthew and wife Sarah Jessica Parker named their only son after him. This second James Broderick is not an actor yet, being only five-years-old, but given that both of his parents hit the stage very young (Sarah Jessica was Annie on Broadway fer cripe's sake), we might not have to wait too much longer.

Holden Pike 12-01-07 03:12 AM

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It shouldn't be much of a surprise to many here that comic genius and legend Mel Brooks and the great Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft were married for nearly forty-one years before Anne's passing in 2005, but you might not yet have caught on to the fact that their only son, Max Brooks, has become a successful author in the past few years with his side-splittingly hysterical The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead and the novel World War Z, the latter of which has recently been optioned for a movie.

Holden Pike 12-01-07 03:25 AM

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And another family with a fairly unusual name that should be a tip-off, but legendary independent director and actor John Cassavetes (Shadows, Rosemary's Baby) and his wife the great actress Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence, Tempest, Night on Earth) have three children who are all involved in showbiz. Nick Cassavetes dabbled in acting but is now a director, though unlike Dad he works squarely in the middle of mainstream Studio Hollywood with such credits as The Notebook, John Q and Alpha Dog. Middle child Alexandra or Xan Cassavetes directed the excellent documentary Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession. Their youngest, Zoe Cassavetes, has done a little bit of acting but just scored earlier this year as a director with her indie pic Broken English starring Parker Posey.

Mrs. Darcy 12-01-07 11:40 AM

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My teenage heart-throb, Matt Dillon, of The Outsiders, There's Something About Mary, and Crash, is the older brother of
Kevin Dillon of Platoon and Entourage.


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Mrs. Darcy 12-01-07 12:26 PM

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Actor Sam Robards, Life as a House, American Beauty, is the son of Lauren Bacall, (Key Largo, How to Marry a Millionaire) and Jason Robards, (All the Presidents Men, Magnolia). He is half brothers with Steven Bogart, the son of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.

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Kizzie 12-02-07 01:36 PM

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Cool Threads xx

Holden Pike 12-03-07 01:07 AM

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Another screamingly-obvious-but-I'll-mention-it-anyway family...



Actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges are the sons of Lloyd Bridges. Lloyd started his professional acting career in the late 1930s, and although he wasn't a star in the old Studio System he did work often as a contract player, including a supporting role in the classic High Noon (1952). But on television he was a star, especially as the intrepid SCUBA diver Mike Nelson on "Sea Hunt" (1958-1961). Beau is the older of the two boys, and he started his career as a child actor, mostly TV stuff, and did manage to get into some B-movies like the Drive-In classic cheese-fest Land of the Giants (1965). It was Jeff who was the instant star after Peter Bogdanovich cast him in The Last Picture Show (1971), which netted him a Supporting Actor Oscar nomination (the first of four, to date) and a bonafide big-time career. Beau has amassed a steady and impressive career working more in television than features, with eleven Emmy nominations so far and three wins, including one for the lead in "Without Warning: The James Brady Story". Lloyd got an entire second career mostly as a comedian after the success of Airplane! (1980). Other than uncredited background work when they were kids, the only big screen pairing of Jeff and Beau is of course The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). Jeff and Lloyd worked together in both Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) and Blown Away (1994), while Beau and Lloyd worked together in The Fifth Musketeer (1979) and Meeting Daddy (2000) as well as a bunch of TV projects. The three Bridges never got to work in a film together before Lloyd's death in 1998.

Holden Pike 12-03-07 02:15 PM

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And I'm sure I meant to note this family when I was talking about Schuyler Fisk and Colin Hanks, but director/writer Jake Kasdan (Orange County, Zero Effect, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) is the son of Oscar-nominated writer/director Lawrence Kasdan (Body Heat, Silverado, The Big Chill). The elder Kasdan started as a screenwriter, working on both The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, before he began directing his own material. Larry hasn't had any success of late, his only film this century as a director being the dreadful Stephen King piece Dreamcatcher, but he is working on adapting Richard Russo's novel The Risk Pool for the screen, so perhaps there is hope yet. But Jake Kasdan's star has been on the rise for a while now. In addition to his own material he's in with the Judd Apatow crowd, having directed episodes of "Freaks & Geeks" and "Undeclared", and he and Judd co-wrote Walk Hard. If this month's Dewey Cox becomes a box office hit, he'll get some real power in the industry. Jake also has a younger brother, Jon Kasdan, who just made his big screen debut as a writer/director with the dramedy In the Land of Women.

Holden Pike 08-18-15 09:15 PM

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This thread needs to be revived! So many more second generation celebs out there...

  • Actor George Wendt, iconic forever as Norm on "Cheers", is the uncle of Jason Sudeikis, who has gone from "SNL" to a movie star in Horrible Bosses and We're the Millers.
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  • Melissa McCarthy, who went from supporting player in the likes of "The Gilmore Girls" to starring on her own sitcom "Mike & Molly" and then became an instant movie star after Bridesmaids, is the cousin of MTV personality turned minor actress turned vaccine denier and talk show host Jenny McCarthy.
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  • Rashida Jones ("Parks & Recreation", The Social Network, I Love You, Man) is the daughter of legendary musician/composer/producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton ("The Mod Squad", "Twin Peaks").
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  • Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård who moved from arthouse fare such as Oxen, Breaking the Waves, Insomnia ,and Good Will Hunting to blockbusters like The Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor and Avengers franchises is the father of Alexander Skarsgård ("True Blood", "Generation Kill", and the Straw Dogs remake). His other sons Gustaf, Bill, Valter, and Sam all act as well, though none have broken through like Alexander, yet.
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  • Mamie Gummer has been building her resume for years, including a recurring role on "The Good Wife" and starring in the short-lived series "Emily Owens M.D.", but if it wasn't obvious before there should be no doubt after seeing even the commercials or trailer for Ricki and the Flash that she is the daughter of the living legend nineteen-time Oscar nominee and three-time winner Meryl Streep.
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  • Character actor William Mapother, who is recognizable from dozens of TV appearances including a recurring role on "Lost" and movies like In the Bedroom, Another Earrth and The Grudge, is the cousin of megastar Tom Cruise (who's birth name is Thomas Mapother)
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  • Actor and director Campbell Scott (Big Night, Dying Young, The Spanish Prisoner, "Royal Pains") is the son of two acting heavyweights: the Queen of Broadway, multiple Tony and Emmy winner Colleen Dewhurst (Annie Hall, "Anne of Green Gables"), and Oscar winner - even if he didn't want to pick it up - George C. Scott (The Hustler, Dr. Strangelove, Patton, The Hospital).
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  • Looking back over the thread, somehow when I noted that young actress Schuyler Fisk is the daughter of Oscar winner Sissy Spacek, I forgot to mention that Rip Torn (Cross Creek, "The Larry Sanders Show", Men in Black) is Sissy's cousin!
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  • Minimalist composer Philip Glass, whose film work includes the scores for Koyaanisqatsi, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, The Thin Blue Line, and Kundun, is the uncle of NPR stalwart Ira Glass ("This American Life").
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  • Liev Schreiber (Scream, The Manchurian Candidate remake, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, "Ray Donovan") is the half brother (same father, different mothers) of Pablo Schreiber ("The Wire", "Weeds", "Orange is the New Black", "The Brink").
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  • Actress Bonnie Bedelia (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel, Presumed Innocent, "Parenthood") is the sister of Kit Culkin, making her the aunt of Macaulay, Kieran, and Rory Culkin.
  • Actress Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer", Something to Talk About, Phenomenon, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine") is the cousin of one of Andy Warhol's muses Edie Sedgewick, a socialite turned model turned counterculture regular who appeared in many of The Factory's projects and died at the age of only twenty-eight, due to drug addiction.
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  • I already noted that Kate Hudson is the daughter of Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson, but since then her older brother Oliver Hudson has become a recognizeable actor, mostly on television in the sitcom "Rules of Engagement" and on the drama "Nashville".
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  • It's probably fairly obvious, but in case you hadn't realized it, James Franco ("Freaks & Geeks", Spider-Man, 127 Hours, This is the End) is the older brother of Dave Franco (21 Jump Street, Now You See Me, Neighbors).
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  • Actress Lily Collins (The Blind Side, Mirror Mirror, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) is the daughter of pop music superstar Phil Collins.
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  • Another young actress, Zoey Deutch ("The Suite Life: On Deck", Beautiful Creatures, Vampire Academy) is the daughter of director Howard Deutch (Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, "American Horror Story") and '80s icon Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Howard the Duck, "Caroline in the City").
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  • And another that I assume is well known but just in case, Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene, Godzilla, Avengers: Age of Ultron) is the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley, aka The Olsen Twins.
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Camo 08-18-15 09:29 PM

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Good stuff Holden. Man I had no idea Mamie Gummer was Streeps daughter she is one of my fave recurring characters on The Good Wife. I actually found out Rashida Jones family connections the other day, I've been watching Parks and Rec recently and looked her up to remind myself of what else she has been in.

Sir Toose 08-18-15 09:36 PM

Off topic a bit but Philip Glass is also responsible for the eerie & spooky soundtrack to Candyman.

MovieGal 08-18-15 09:51 PM

You know Stellan Skarsgård has 4 sons who are actors..

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he's in countless films and never lets me down!

Alexander Skarsgård

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I first met Alexander when I was watching the first season of "True Blood". Then I seen him in Von Trier's movie "Melancholia", then on to "Battleship". After that, I seen him in "Disconnect". He's a very good actor. I think I need to see more of his work.

Gustaf Skarsgård
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My first movie of Gustaf's was "Ondskan", a Swedish film on a topic I enjoy and "Arn: The Knight Templar". From there, he became world known when he starred in the hit series "Vikings" on the History Channel. I do need to see more of his films.

Bill Skarsgård
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Now Bill, he's been in a few movies but he's on the Netflix's original series "Hemlock Grove". I have seen a few of those at the beginning of the first season and not sure if I seen any with Bill in them.

Valter Skarsgård
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I have not seen any of his work but perhaps he's someone I should check out. I enjoy the films by his father and some of his brothers' works...

Camo 08-18-15 09:55 PM

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He said that in his post.

MovieGal 08-18-15 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by Camo (Post 1371504)
He said that in his post.
I only seen a picture of Alexander.. not sure if he had Valter, Gustaf or Bill.

Camo 08-18-15 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by MovieGal (Post 1371507)
I only seen a picture of Alexander.. not sure if he had Valter, Gustaf or Bill.
He mentioned the three but said they haven't reached the level of success of Alexander yet.

Ðèstîñy 08-19-15 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by MovieGal (Post 1371507)
I only seen a picture of Alexander.. not sure if he had Valter, Gustaf or Bill.
Yep, Alexander, Gustaf, Bill, Valter, plus Sam. According to Holden's post, he has five son's that act.

Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 396373)
Originally Posted by Ðèstîñy (Post 396402)
I love him in the movie, House. It's cheesy, but it's great. My daughter watches it a lot.
Almost eight years later, and I still remembered it enough to answer a movie question yesterday. It really is a fun movie.

honeykid 08-19-15 08:36 AM

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Or, in other words, if you want to have a successful Hollywood career, be related to someone with a Hollywood career.

Captain Steel 08-19-15 01:30 PM

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I just found out that actress / comedienne Amy Schumer is a cousin to Senator Chuck Shumer (her father & Chuck are 2nd cousins).

For Holden: I was surprised that Kyra Sedgewick was mentioned without noting that she's been married to Kevin Bacon for 27 years!

Also, can we get a breakdown on the Stiller & Meara family?

Holden Pike 08-19-15 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by Captain Steel (Post 1371749)
For Holden: I was surprised that Kyra Sedgewick was mentioned without noting that she's been married to Kevin Bacon for 27 years!
Because as I said in the beginning, this is about blood relations, not marriages. Those change ALL THE TIME.

Holden Pike 08-19-15 03:48 PM

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  • Ben Stiller is the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who started out as a comic duo on the likes of "The Ed Sullivan Show". Jerry is forever branded now as Frank Costanza, but he and Anne worked in the industry for decades before "Seinfled" and before their boy started hitting it big. Ben's sister Amy has also dabbled in the business, but nothing like her brother or their parents.
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  • Music star Lenny Kravitz, who has started taking some acting gigs in projects such as Precious and the Hunger Games series, is the son of Roxie Roker, best known as neighbor to "The Jeffersons" after they moved on up to the East Side. Roxie's cousin is famous weather personality Al Roker, making Lenny and Al cousins as well.
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  • Yes, comedian Amy Schumer of "Inside Amy Schumer" and this summer's Trainwreck, is second cousin to longtime New York Senator Chuck Schumer.
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  • The unusual last name should have tipped it, but actor Justin Theroux (Mulholland Drive, Wanderlust, "The Leftovers") who is now Mr. Jennifer Aniston is the cousin of journalist/filmmaker Louis Theroux. Louis' father/Justin's uncle is acclaimed novelist Paul Theroux, who's work has been adapted for the big screen in The Mosquito Coast, Saint Jack, and Half Moon Street.
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  • Rapper Snoop Dogg/Lion (Starsky & Hutch) is the cousin of singer/actress Brandy ("Moesha", I Still Know What You Did Last Summer).
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  • Thomas Brodie-Sangster of Love Actually, The Maze Runner, "Phineas & Ferb", and "Game of Thrones" is a second cousin of Hugh Grant (Four Weddings and a Funeral).
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  • Max Irons of Red Riding Hood, The Host, and "The White Queen" is indeed the son of Oscar winner Jeremy Irons and actress Sinéad Cusack. Sinéad is not related to those Cusack Yanks John or Joan, but is the daughter of actors Cyril (Fahrenheit 451, Harold & Maude, The Day of the Jackal) and Maureen Cusack (Odd Man Out), making them Max's grandparents.
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honeykid 08-19-15 04:14 PM

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster wouldn't be related to legendary Hammer writer Jimmy Sangster, would he?

Captain Steel 08-19-15 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by Holden Pike (Post 1371761)
Because as I said in the beginning, this is about blood relations, not marriages. Those change ALL THE TIME.
Understood. But that's what makes Sedgewick & Bacon so remarkable. Two movie stars? Married for 27 years? In Hollywood! That's unheard of! :)

Captain Steel 08-19-15 04:51 PM

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Great thread, btw! I discovered it this morning after it had been bumped. I got so into reading it that it delayed my morning coffee & Devil Dog!
Albert Brooks & Super Dave Osborne? I never knew that one! (And Brooks was originally "Albert Einstein"!) LOL!

Captain Steel 08-19-15 04:58 PM

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Have the Fonda's been covered?

Holden Pike 08-19-15 05:26 PM

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I had the Fondas and the Douglases in the too-obvious-to-mention column, but knock yourself out, Cap'n. :)

Holden Pike 08-19-15 06:12 PM

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Some more...
  • Actresses Kate Mara (Tadpole, Shooter, and the current awful Fantastic 4 re-re-boot) and Oscar nominated Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, Her and the upcoming Pan) are sisters. They are related to NFL football and U.S. sports royalty: their grandfathers were Wellington Mara, co-owner of the New York Giants, and Timothy Rooney, owner of the Yonkers Raceway. They are the great-granddaughters of Art Rooney, the founder of The Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  • Speaking of the NFL, even most casual fans know that Super Bowl winning quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning are brothers, of course, and their father Archie was an NFL QB and a college star. What you may not have realized is that actress Taryn Manning ("Orange is the New Black", Hustle & Flow, "Sons of Anarchy") is their second cousin. Taryn's father and Archie were cousins.
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  • One of the medium's first superstars, Charlie Chaplin, lived a long time and fathered children well into what most would call old age. He had eight children, many of whom tried acting at some point, but only Geraldine Chaplin (Doctor Zhivago, Nashville, Cria Cuervos, Talk to Her), who he had with Oona O'Neill, had a successful career. Geraldine's grandfather on her mother's side is legendary playwright Eugene O'Neill. Geraldine's daughter was given her mother's name, Oona Chaplin, and is starting to make a name for herself including as Kitty Trevelyan on "Game of Thrones". So Oona's grandfather is Charlie Chaplin, and her great grandfather is Eugene O'Neill.
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  • Here comes some nerdgasm action: actor Ewan McGregor, who as part of his magnificent career of course played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the less-than-magnificent Star Wars prequels, is the nephew of Denis Lawson. Lawson has had a more than steady career, largely on British TV, with dozens of credits, but if you know his name at all likely it is as a piece of trivia that he played Luke Skywalker's pal and Rebel X-Wing pilot Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars.
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  • More for the Sci-Fi nerds: Alexander Siddig, who was known first as Doctor Bashir on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and has since appeared in Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven, "24", and "Game of Thrones", is the nephew of Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Caligula). Malcolm's two children with ex-wife Oscar-winner Mary Steenburgen (Melvin & Howard, Back to the Future Part III, Stepbrothers), Charlie and Lilly McDowell, have dabbled in the industry, but neither has had success like their cousin Alex.

NedStark09 08-19-15 06:16 PM

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The Rock or Dwayne Johnson

Has a big family but will make it easy.
Related Too Rakishi
Rakishi
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The Rock Is also Cousins too Rakishi Sons the Usos and Roman Reigns
All These are Wrestlers on WWE Raw.
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However Roman is Nephew to Rakishi and is Cousins Too The Usos. But Also he is The Rocks Cousin. The Same way Rakishi is Cousin Too The Rock I assume.
Roman Reigns
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I think I would be here all day if i tried to connect the full family tree but my main point is the Rock is cousins to The Usos and Roman Reigns

Camo 08-19-15 06:25 PM

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He was related to Umaga too who died not long ago. Also his dad Rocky Johnson and grandad Peter Maivia were also wrestlers.

Gideon58 08-19-15 07:08 PM

I never knew Jason Schwartzman was Talia Shire's son.

Gideon58 08-19-15 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Darcy (Post 390120)
Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People) is the son of James Hutton (Ellery Queen)


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If you look at pictures of Timothy Hutton and Jim Hutton side by side, it's uncanny...Timothy looks like Jim just spit him out.

Holden Pike 08-19-15 07:35 PM

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I never knew Jason Schwartzman was Talia Shire's son.
Yup. She has played his on-screen mother once, so far, in David O. Russell's I ♥ Huckabees.



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