Anyone Up for Six Degrees of Mitchell?

Joe Don Baker in: No Degree of Separation

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IMDB does give the man 84 credits over a 50-year career.

Marilyn Monroe was in River of No Return with Robert Mitchum who was in the Cape Fear remake with Joe Don Baker who was Mitchell!

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They’re like potato chips. Just one more.

Ingmar Bergman directed The Passion of Anna with Liv Ullmann who was in the 1973 Lost Horizon remake with George Kennedy who was in The Guns of the Magnificent Seven with Joe Don Baker who was Mitchell!

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JDB was in Mars Attacks! with Jack Nicholson
who was in Little Shop of Horrors with Mel Welles
who was in Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II with Henry Brandon
who was in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine with Nigel Bruce
who was in She with Randolph Scott

RANDOLPH SCOTT!?!

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I can connect Joe Don Baker to Mitchell in one.

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One more… Like Lay’s Potato Chips, I “Can’t Eat Just One…”

Robert De Niro -

Was in Michael Canton Jones’ This Boy’s Life (1993) with Leonardo DiCaprio -
Who co-starred with Daniel Day-Lewis in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York (2002) -
Who co-starred next to Sally Field in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) -
Who played opposite Pierce Brosnan in Chris Columbus’ Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) -
Who starred in Martin Campbell’s Goldeneye (1995) alongside Joe Don Baker -
Who played Mitchell in Mitchell (1975).

This is fun!

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It’s near-impossible to get something going with Manos: The Hands of Fate, given that nearly all the onscreen talent had that film as their only cinematic credit (and folks who did other work, like Jackey Neyman Jones, don’t seem to have stuff that readily connects to Joe Don Baker).

But we can get there by way of Sherry Proctor, one of the Master’s wives, if we play fast and loose with the rules:

-Sherry Proctor, one of the Master’s wives in Manos: The Hands of Fate, was also part of the script/continuity team for Attila

-Attila featured Anthony Quinn in the title role

-Anthony Quinn was in Portrait of Black with John Saxon

-John Saxon etc etc etc Joe Don Baker in Mitchell

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Felicia Day was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer with
Sarah Michelle Gellar was in All My Children with
David Canary was in Bonanza with
Michael Landon was in Little House in the Prairie with
Merlin Olsen was in Mitchell with
JDB

The All My Children chain also connects JDB to Carol Burnett, Kelly Ripa, Amanda Seyfried, John O’Hurley, Mischa Barton, Josh Duhamel, Christian Slater, and my favorite AMC alum, Michael B Jordan.

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Didn’t one of us work up a computer program that does all this automatically?

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JDB was in Mars Attacks! with
Martin Short who was a cast member on SNL with
Billy Crystal who hosted the May 12, 1984 episode of SNL which featured
Joel Hodgson

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This is awesome @MichaelRobertson!

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So. My father was in the film ‘Family Jewels’ with Jerry Lewis. (He was part of the Air Force rifle drill team that was featured rather prominently in one section of the movie.) Anyone want to complete the chain for me? I have to work. wry grin

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-your father was in Family Jewels with Jerry Lewis

-Jerry Lewis was in Hook, Line & Sinker with Andy Romano

-Andy Romano was in Beach Blanket Bingo with Linda Evans

-Linda Evans regretted her time with Joe Don Baker in Mitchell

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Dang, that’s closer than I thought it would be! Thanks! I think. chuckle

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You’re very welcome! :smiley:

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Something similar – the utterly brilliant:

It’s not quite the same because this thread allows you to go outside of riffed movies; only Mitchell has to be in the MST3K family.

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We can always cheat and say, oh…

Estelle Winwood was on MST3K, “The Magic Sword” with Tom Servo
Who was on MST3K, “Mitchell” with Joe Done Baker

:wink:

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That was worth the effort.

I’m starting to realize what a star-studded stable of performers Mitchell was, making it almost too easy, even with the restriction. But Manos??

You’re brave to try and impressive (to me) to pull it off.

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I don’t know about the crew, but I just checked every actor in the movie and basically the only one with credits outside of the Manosverse (documentaries about Manos, Manos Returns, etc) Is Jackie Neyman, so you’d pretty much have to go through her:

But most of her movies are dead ends as well, at least among actors.

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Heh, thank you very much! :smiley:

I was hoping (for some inexplicable reason) that we could tie Manos into the larger realm of cinema like that!

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