7 Degrees of Harrison Ford

Okay Ed Wood...

I assume the Plan 9 From Outer Space one, with Bela Lugosi...
Who was in The Raven with Boris Karloff...
Who was in Curse of the Crimson Altar with Christopher Lee...
Who was in Attack of the Clones with Ian McDiarmid...
Who was in Return of the Jedi with you-know-who

(Okay, that one wasn't completely from memory )


Groucho Marx

C'mon, somebody can make it work

 

Groucho Marx - C'mon, somebody can make it work.

I'll try:

Groucho Marx was in "A Girl in Every Port" with Marie Wilson,
Marie Wilson was in "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" with James Stewart,
James Stewart was in "How the West Was Won" with Gregory Peck,
Gregory Peck was in "The Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse" with Roger Moore,
Roger Moore was in "The Cannonball Run" with Burt Reynolds,
Burt Reynolds was in "The Crew" with Richard Dreyfuss,
Richard Dreyfuss was in "American Graffiti" with Harrison Ford.

That was tough .

Morgan Freeman

 

Morgan Freeman was in Driving Miss Daisy with Dan Ackroyd

Dan Ackroyd was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with Harrison Ford


Clint Eastwood

 

Clint Eastwood was in "Space Cowboys" with Tommy Lee Jones,
Tommy Lee Jones was in "Double Jeopardy" with Ashley Judd,
Ashley Judd was in "Heat" with Tom Sizemore,
Tom Sizemore was in "Black Hawk Down" with Ewan McGregor,
Ewan McGregor was in "Star Wars - AotC" with Anthony Daniels,
Anthony Daniels was in "Star Wars - ANH" with Harrison Ford.

Homer Simpson

 

Kim Basinger was a guest character on the Simpsons (with Homer Simpson)
Kim Basinger was in LA Confidential with Russel Crowe
Russel Crowe was in Gladiator with Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix was the brother of River Phoenix
River Phoenix was in Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford

Kevin Bacon (just because it was his game in the first place )

 

Kevin Bacon was in Footloose with John Lithgow...
John Lithgow was in The World According To Garp with Glenn Close...
Glenn Close was in Air Force One with Harrison Ford.


Let's try...Sting

 

Sting was in "Dune" with Leonardo Cimino,
Leonardo Cimino was in "Hudson Hawk" with Bruce Willis,
Bruce Willis was in "Die Hard" with Alan Rickman,
Alan Rickman was in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" with Richard Harris,
Richard Harris was in "Patriot Games" with Harrison Ford.

Jennifer Aniston

 

Jennfier Aniston was on Friends with David Schwimmer
Schwimmer was in 6 Days 7 Nights with Ford


McCaully Culkin

 

McCaully Culkin was in The Good Son with Elijah Wood
Wood was in LOTR with Chrisotpher Lee
Who was in ATOC with Anthony Daniels
Who was in SW with Harrison Ford

 

And the next name is....

 

Oops!
How about Marcel (the howler monkey) from Friends

 

What? Does that qualify as an actor?

Well, the easy route would be with David Schwimmer, but...

Marcel was in Friends with Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry was in The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis was in Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino
who directed Samuel Jackson in Jackie Brown
who was in Patriot Games with Harrison Ford



By suggestion from another JCer... Jennifer Garner

 

Jennifer Garner... (oh, sorry)

"The Future Mrs. Krickhan" ( it's my birthday tommarrow, gotta make a birthday wish sometime ) was in "Pearl Harbor" with Josh Hartnett...

Josh Hartnett was in "Hollywood Homicide" with Harrison Ford!

BAM! 2 moves...and no way you can argue that one!

Ben Browder

 

Oooohh, toughy.

Ben B. was in a Kiss Before Dying with Max Von Sydow
Max V.S. was in Needfull Things with Ed Harris
Ed Harris was in The Rock with Sean Connery
Sean Connery was in The Hunt for Red October with James Earl Jones.
JEJ was in ANH, Empire, Jedi, Patriot Games, and Clear and Present Danger with Harrison Ford.

try Prince

 

Prince was in "Purple Rain" with Clarence Williams III,
Clarence Williams III was in "The General's Daughter" with James Woods,
James Woods was in "Casino" with Kevin Pollak,
Kevin Pollak was in "A Few Good Men" with Kiefer Sutherland,
Kiefer Sutherland was in "Phone Booth" with Colin Farrell,
Colin Farrell was in "Daredevil" with Joe Pantoliano,
Joe Pantoliano was in "The Fugitive" with Harrison Ford.

In the spirit of continuing the singer/actor theme:
Huey Lewis

 

I didn't know that that was Jennifer Garner in Pearl Harbor. I'm rather disappointed to know that, actually.

 

Heuy Lewis was in Back to the Future with Christopher Llyod. [he was the 'I'm sorry, you're just too loud' guy]
Christopher Lloyd was in Addams Family with Raul Julia.
Raul Julia was in Presumed Innocent with Harrison Ford.

Finally, I find a game I'm good at.

Try Mikail Barishnakov

 

Ok...

Barishnikov was in White Nights with Gregory Hines.
Hines was in Running Scared with Billy Crystal.
Crystal was in Throw Momma From the Train with Danny DeVito.
DeVito was in Batman Returns with Michelle Pfeiffer.
Michelle Pfieffer was in What Lies Beneath with our man Ford.

Levon Helm
All together now: who?

 

Levon Helm was in Feeling Minnesota with Keanu Reeves
Who was in The Matrix with Hugo Weaving
Who was in Fellowship Of The Ring with Christopher Lee
Who was in Attack Of The Clones with Anthony Daniels
Who was in A New Hope with Harrison Ford

Here's another singer/actor one... may be tougher

Christina Milian

 

Christina Milian was in American Pie (as a Band Member) with
Eugene Levy who was in Down to Earth with
Chris Rock who was in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back with
Carrie Fisher who was in ANH, ESB, and RotJ with Harrison Ford.

Yeah Eric, that was so tough.

Steve Irwin (as in the Croc Hunter. )

 

Ok...
Steve Irwin was in Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (duh )
with David Wenham who was in LOTR with John Rhys-Davies
who was in Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford


uhh... Ron Jeremy

oh, it won't be that hard, he's appeared in a lot of 'legitimate' films.

 

Use caution when posting title names, please. This is a family-friendly board.

 

Ron Jeremy was in "Detroit Rock City"...with Shannon Tweed.

Shannon Tweed was in "Dragnet" with Tom Hanks.

Hanks was in "That Thing You Do!" with Liv Tyler.

Liv Tyler was in the LOTR trilogy with Sean Bean.

Sean Bean was in "Patriot Games" with Harrison Ford!

Steve McQueen

 

McQueen was in Great Escape with James Coburn
who was in Ford's first movie Dead Heat Merry-go-Round [or something like that]


try this: Bob Sagat

 

Bob Sagat was in "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" with Cheri Oteri,
Cheri Oteri was in "Scary Movie" with Carmen Electra,
Carmen Electra was in "Starsky & Hutch" with Ben Stiller,
Ben Stiller was in "Meet the Parents" with Robert De Niro,
Robert De Niro was in "The Untouchables" with Sean Connery,
Sean Connery was in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" with Harrison Ford.

Alan Thicke