Last few days at work we've been playing a game where someone names an actor and then everyone has to come up with list of 10 movies that person has been in (no matter how small the role and movie-series count as one. (I.E. you couldn't name 10 Bond movies for "Sean Connery" you'd just simply say "James Bond" and count that as one.) We found the threshold most of us reach is normally about 8 movies for most actors save the occasional one who blasted out a bunch of them over a short populairty peak in his career (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Carrey both fell into this catagory) but it was surprisingly hard to come up with 10 movies for many actors, even some of the most popular and famous actors. We even struggled to come up with 10 movies for the ubiquitous Kevin Bacon.
Been a lot of fun and, if I do say so myself, I've been pretty good with coming up with some the rarer odd ones for many actors. (Like "Revenge of the Creature" for Clint Eastwood.)
Since we're making this a game thread I'll lay out the rules:
1. Anyone can add a title to the list once we have 10 we'll move on. (This includes the person starting the actor's run.)
2. NO checking IMDB, Wikipedia or any other internet resource.
3. You must know the title of the movie. (Unless it's a case like where it's a series of movies where the same character is in there but the movies are differently titled (Harrison Ford and the Jack Ryan movies, any actor who's played James Bond and is in several movies.)
4. All movies in series/sequel count as one. So Michael J. Fox and Back to the Future counts as "one" and not "three."
5. If an actor shows up in several movies playing the same character but the movies aren't direct sequels that can count. (For example: Kevin Smith plays "Silent Bob" in all of the "Viewaskewverse" movies but all of the movies (save the Clerks ones) are different movies with their own stories and plots. So you could count all movies in which Kevin Smith appears as Silent Bob.)
6. Only theatrically released or DTV movies. No TV series or made-for-TV movies.
7. Starting on the next actor will be up to debate, if enough people think 10 movies, or a sufficient number over ten has been listed someone can name a different actor. (We can hash this detail out later.)
8. If you get stuck and, for your own curiosity, look the actor up on an internet resource you're forfeit for the actor. You've looked in the Clue envelope and are out of the game.
9. Any appearance, no matter how small, in a movie counts; even places where the actor appears as himself.
10. For the ease of play, let's try and to limit to 1, maybe 2, actors at a time. Preferably we shouldn't move on to another actor until we have all 10 or are stumped.
11. You're not required to name all 10 movies in one post name as many as you can think of.
12. Unreleased movies can count so long as a trailer, poster, or other material is out there that can be pointed to as "proof." "Signed"/"Contracted to..." movies don't count as anything can happen between signing a contract and movie's actual (if ever) release.
13. Voice work counts but here we break the "any appearance" rule a bit and say it's got to be a meaningful bit of voice work, pretty much meaning credited. Kelsey Grammar's garbled "Bozeman message" in First Contact, for example, wouldn't count.
Been a lot of fun and, if I do say so myself, I've been pretty good with coming up with some the rarer odd ones for many actors. (Like "Revenge of the Creature" for Clint Eastwood.)
Since we're making this a game thread I'll lay out the rules:
1. Anyone can add a title to the list once we have 10 we'll move on. (This includes the person starting the actor's run.)
2. NO checking IMDB, Wikipedia or any other internet resource.
3. You must know the title of the movie. (Unless it's a case like where it's a series of movies where the same character is in there but the movies are differently titled (Harrison Ford and the Jack Ryan movies, any actor who's played James Bond and is in several movies.)
4. All movies in series/sequel count as one. So Michael J. Fox and Back to the Future counts as "one" and not "three."
5. If an actor shows up in several movies playing the same character but the movies aren't direct sequels that can count. (For example: Kevin Smith plays "Silent Bob" in all of the "Viewaskewverse" movies but all of the movies (save the Clerks ones) are different movies with their own stories and plots. So you could count all movies in which Kevin Smith appears as Silent Bob.)
6. Only theatrically released or DTV movies. No TV series or made-for-TV movies.
7. Starting on the next actor will be up to debate, if enough people think 10 movies, or a sufficient number over ten has been listed someone can name a different actor. (We can hash this detail out later.)
8. If you get stuck and, for your own curiosity, look the actor up on an internet resource you're forfeit for the actor. You've looked in the Clue envelope and are out of the game.
9. Any appearance, no matter how small, in a movie counts; even places where the actor appears as himself.
10. For the ease of play, let's try and to limit to 1, maybe 2, actors at a time. Preferably we shouldn't move on to another actor until we have all 10 or are stumped.
11. You're not required to name all 10 movies in one post name as many as you can think of.
12. Unreleased movies can count so long as a trailer, poster, or other material is out there that can be pointed to as "proof." "Signed"/"Contracted to..." movies don't count as anything can happen between signing a contract and movie's actual (if ever) release.
13. Voice work counts but here we break the "any appearance" rule a bit and say it's got to be a meaningful bit of voice work, pretty much meaning credited. Kelsey Grammar's garbled "Bozeman message" in First Contact, for example, wouldn't count.
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