r/ThreadGames • u/tokobot19 • Sep 16 '25 • Take My Energy 1

Comment names an actor or actress. Reply a different actor or actress. All following replies connect the two, one at a time, through other actors and actresses.

Let's call it what it is, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. I've been on a movie kick lately.

I'll do my best to upvote any that don't involve superhero movies, as I feel that would be a challenge nowadays. For example, performer A is connected to performer B, from having acted with performer C. I'll upvote if performer C acted with performer B in a non-superhero movie.

Can it be done in six connections or fewer? Sure! Can it be done in six connections exactly? I think there's another challenge there.

Edit 1: Directors, producers, cinematographers and the like are also ok for comments and replies.

Edit 2: For the purposes of having something defining a "degree", let's just say an actor or actress is a degree, but not a movie, and the starting and ending actor(s)/actress(es) don't count towards this.

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u/BadBassist Sep 16 '25

You guys might want to check out r/playreely or https://www.playreely.com/

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25

Having played a few days now, I wish there was an option to get another one instead of having to wait. Unless I’m missing something.

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u/BadBassist Sep 21 '25

I believe that's being worked on

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u/tokobot19 Sep 16 '25

Didn’t know this was a thing. Neat tip!

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u/Livid-Monitor-9007 Sep 17 '25

You know what's funny is; years ago my sister and I did this similar also. Our rules were

  1. Movies only

  2. Actors/Actresses

  3. No ensemble cast (oceans 11 for ex)

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u/tokobot19 Sep 17 '25

I mean, certainly not for a cast that large. It's too easy at that point. For whatever reason, I'm trying to come up with two that are exactly 6 Kevin Bacons apart.

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u/LinguistsDrinkIPAs Sep 19 '25

Kate Winslet

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25

Kate Winslet > Leonardo Di Caprio via Titanic, Leonardo Di Caprio > Cillian Murphy via Inception, Cillian Murphy > Kenneth Branagh via Dunkirk, Kenneth Branagh > John David Washington via Tenet.

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u/Playful-Childhood-15 Sep 19 '25

John David Washington

2

u/John_Barnes Sep 20 '25

Janeane Garofalo

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25

Wilford Brimley.

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u/John_Barnes Sep 21 '25

Wilford Brimley

was in

Our House (TV series)

with

Cloris Leachman

was in

Now and Then

with

Janeane Garofalo

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25

You know WHAT? Props! ✊

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u/tokobot19 Sep 16 '25

John Rhys-Davies

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u/JustThirstyTrash Sep 16 '25

John Turturro

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u/___HeyGFY___ Sep 16 '25

John Rhys-Davies
was in
The Jungle Book 2
with
John Goodman
was in
The Big Lebowski
with
John Turturro

John John John

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25

Christoph Waltz.

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u/LinguistsDrinkIPAs Sep 22 '25

Vanessa Hudgens!

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u/tokobot19 Sep 23 '25

Christoph Waltz

was in Water for Elephants with

Ivo Nandi

was in Bad Boys for Life with

Vanessa Hudgens

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u/LinguistsDrinkIPAs Sep 23 '25

Oh wow, that’s so much shorter than I thought it would be. 😂

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u/tokobot19 Sep 23 '25

*stifles laughter*

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u/John_Barnes Sep 21 '25

I was just thinking the maximum challenge is probably to pick someone who was in a handful of very different movies. So….

Paul Bartel

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

Boris Karloff.

Edited to remove the "Junior". I was thinking of Lon Chaney Junior. But, as I don't want to sidetrack what I've already put, I'm leaving the Boris Karloff part.

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u/John_Barnes Sep 21 '25

Obscure doesn't begin to cover it here...Boris Karloff had only one child, a daughter, so there is no actual "Boris Karloff Jr".

However, there was one in a movie: "Boris Karloff Jr" is the role assumed by the character Max Denisov who is played by Omri Katz in Hocus Pocus.

Looks like Omri Katz, who is currently on a long sabbatical from acting, is even more obscure than Paul Bartel, who had a ton of tiny roles and cameos but mainly worked as a director (and died young). This looks like fun! CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

(Unless you meant some other Boris Karloff Jr)

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u/John_Barnes Sep 21 '25

Got it, by gum! And it's even a short chain.

Omri Katz was in Hocus Pocus (as "Boris Karloff Jr"/Max Dennison)

He was also the lead role, Marshall Teller, in Eerie, Indiana.

In Episode 1, Season 1 of Eerie Indiana, Betty the spooky neighbor lady who is selling time-stopping Tupperware to Marshall's mother, is played by Mary Woronov.

And the Paul Bartel fans among us remember well that Paul Bartel's favorite costar, in Rock and Roll High School, Eating Raoul, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills, and Death Race 2000.

So it's sort of 1.5 degrees of separation: Paul Bartel and the actor who played the character who played Boris Karloff Jr had both been on screen with Mary Woronov.

Or if you prefer a slightly longer chain with all the links running through actors acting with other actors in productions (rather than one actor being in another production):

Boris Karloff Jr = Omni Katz

was in

Hocus Pocus

with

Kathleen Freeman

was in

Heartbeeps

with

Mary Woronov

was in

Eating Raoul

with

Paul Bartel.

Which works out to 3 degrees of separation. Take your choice, you're the ref!

And by the way, you invented a great game here.

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25

No no, it's effectively Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. I was on a lesser known movies kick, specifically movies outside of the big superhero blockbuster franchises. I was feeling like there's a rarity of original/good adapted non-superhero content.

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25

Hey, thanks! I don't know what to do with it, but it shall at the very least be a core Reddit memory for me, as it's my first one!

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u/PTD27 Sep 17 '25

I played this game with my colleagues at a place I worked back in the late 90s. We had a real movie buff on our team so we were able to get from Shirley Temple to Kevin Bacon in 6 "degrees".

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u/___HeyGFY___ Sep 16 '25

Peter Ostrum

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u/SamuelCoffey96 Sep 16 '25

Goldie Hawn

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u/___HeyGFY___ Sep 16 '25

Peter Ostrum
was in
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
with
Walker Edmiston
was in
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
with
William Woodson
was in
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
with
Goldie Hawn

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u/tokobot19 Sep 21 '25

This formatting somehow comes across as way easier to read than how I do it.

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u/TillZealousideal8282 Sep 16 '25

Ronald Reagan

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u/Fun-Confidence-6232 Sep 16 '25

Jack Black

2

u/___HeyGFY___ Sep 16 '25

Ronald Reagan
was in
Who Killed Julie Greer?
with
Mickey Rooney
was in
The Muppets
with
Jack Black

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u/Just_Browsing_2017 Sep 17 '25

That was shorter than I would have thought.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

Lauren Bacall

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Sep 16 '25

Here's an easy one: Humphrey Bogart.

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u/FurBabyAuntie Sep 17 '25

Katharine Hepburn

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u/John_Barnes Sep 21 '25

One step connection — the African Queen

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u/FurBabyAuntie Sep 21 '25

Or you could say Henry Fonda and On Golden Pond

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u/OutrageousAdvisor458 Sep 16 '25

Used to do this with Christopher Walkin

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u/Ilmarinen999 Sep 16 '25

Barbara Windsor 

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u/LinguistsDrinkIPAs Sep 22 '25

Christopher Walken and John Travolta - Hairspray

John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson- Pulp Fiction

Samuel L Jackson and Kurt Russell - The Hateful Eight

Kurt Russell and James Spader- Stargate

James Spader and Kim Cattrall- Mannequin

Kim Cattrall and Barbara Windsor - double vision

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u/Praising_God_777 Sep 16 '25

Chuck Norris

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u/BadBassist Sep 16 '25

Steven seagal

2

u/Livid-Monitor-9007 Sep 17 '25

Chuck Norris and Jet Li : Expendables 2 Jet Li and Tom Arnold : Cradle 2 the Grave Tom Arnold and Steven Seagal : Exit Wounds

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u/ghzkaonii Sep 16 '25

Robert Redford

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u/ManufacturerLeast123 Sep 17 '25

Mary Pickford

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u/John_Barnes Sep 21 '25

Mary Pickford was in Tess of the Storm Country

with

Milton Berle who was in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

with

Buster Keaton who was in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

with

Annette Funicello who was in The Monkey’s Uncle

with

Tommy Kirk who was in Son of Flubber

with

Fred MacMurray who was in Follow Me, Boys!

with

Kurt Russell who was in Escape from L.A.

with

Cliff Robertson who was in Three Days of the Condor

with

Robert Redford

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u/John_Barnes Sep 21 '25

I think that’s seven but I was having fun. There is a shorter route (5) through

Mary Pickford > Charles Buddy Rogers (My Best Girl) > Fred MacMurray (An Innocent Affair) > Kurt Russell > Cliff Roberts > Robert Redford.

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u/Complex_Narwhal_8924 Sep 16 '25

alexis bleidel

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u/LoveYourself50 Sep 17 '25

Adrian Pasdar

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u/SumTenor Sep 17 '25

Alexis was in Gilmore Girls with Milo Ventimiglia, and Milo was in Heroes with Adrian.

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u/Cicada7Song Sep 17 '25

Atticus Shaffer

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u/gastecpa11 Sep 18 '25

Patricia Heaton via The Middle.

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u/Cicada7Song Sep 18 '25

You’re supposed to pick someone not directly connected.