Bob Hope —
Was in a 1988 episode of “Highway to Heaven” starring Michael Landon —
Who earlier starred in “Little House on the Prairie” with Merlin Olsen —
Who played Benton, the heavy, in “Mitchell” alongside JDB.
(You can connect a LOT of people through this route — Josh Brolin, Helen Hunt, Dick Van Dyke, Paul Walker, Eli Wallach, Matthew Perry, John Agar, Ed Asner, Leslie Nielsen, Wil Wheaton, Donald O’Connor, James Earl Jones, Grampa Borgnine …)
In the “Jiffy Lube Masterpiece Theater” classic Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull with Harrison Ford.
Ford was Solo to Billy Dee Williams’s Lando.
Williams was in another Experiment-worthy film called Timebomb (1984) alongside yachting-enthusiast Merlin Olsen (who still had not found his instrument).
Todd Bass (who portrays the snot nose punk Mitchell tells to buzz off) appeared in an episode of Gunsmoke. Which starred James Arness. Who is the ugly and stupid estranged brother of Peter Graves. Tonight on Biography.
Was in Brian De Palma’s The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) co-starring Bruce Willis -
Who co-starred with Sidney Poitier in Michael Canton Jones’ The Jackal (1997) -
Who starred with Katherine Hepburn in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (1967) -
Who appeared with James Stewart in George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story -
Who starred in a western Bandolero! (1968) directed by Andrew V. McLagen -
Who directed a film called Mitchell (1975).
Sir Ian McKellen was in Richard III with Dame Maggie Smith, who was in Harry Potter with Daniel Radcliff, who was in Miracle Workers with Steve Buscemi, who was in Con Air with Ving Rhames, who was in Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino, who directed an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation called “Grave Danger” starring John Saxon, who, for a bad guy seemed to have a lot of presents under that Christmas tree in the background when he’s talking to JDB’s Mitchell.
This connects JDB to the cast of the Harry Potter movies, Downton Abbey, The Crown through Helena Bonham Carter in HP, and lots more! There’s even a connection to the cast of Monty Python through John Cleese in HP – who would have thought
Legendary Hollywood stuntman Dick Ziker played Alley Hood #1 in Mitchell
And he did the stunt driving for Christopher Plummer in Man in the Chair
Who was the emperor in Starcrash with Marjoe Gortner
Who played a lunatic in Eathquake with Charlton Heston
Who hunted down a sniper in Two Minute Warning with Martin Balsam
Who was in Mitchell—hey, waitaminute!