DownGoesFrazier Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Walter Connolly, NOTHING SACRED------Oliver Stone Humphrey Bogart, BROTHER ORCHID----Jack Buck Esther Williams, SKIRTS AHOY------Whitney Young Any others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Raymond Burr, in the "American" release (added footage) of GODZILLA, plays a reporter named Steve Martin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 In The Bowery George Raft and Wallace Beery play characters named Steve Brodie and Chuck Connors In Living It Up Fred Clark plays Oliver Stone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 This is only semi on topic, since it's a TV character name that later was the name of a famous movie/book character-- in an episode of MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, Ted's agent was named Bella Swan. For those of you lucky enough not to know, that's the name of the irritating lead character of the TWILIGHT series. Crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Deleted duplicate post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 This thread reminds me of the strange disconnect I felt as a politically minded football fan in the early 70's, when the NFL included Dwight MacDonald, Drew Pearson, and Ralph McGill all in the same year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 In The Bowery George Raft and Wallace Beery play characters named Steve Brodie and Chuck Connors In Living It Up Fred Clark plays Oliver Stone ..then I assume LIVING IT UP must be a remake of NOTHING SACRED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Raymond Burr, in the "American" release (added footage) of GODZILLA, plays a reporter named Steve Martin. ...and that reprter was a wild and crazy guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 DAMN! I have one on the tip of my tongue, but can't spit it out! Bah! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Walter Connolly, NOTHING SACRED------Oliver Stone Humphrey Bogart, BROTHER ORCHID----Jack Buck Esther Williams, SKIRTS AHOY------Whitney Young Any others? Your thread got me thinking about the disclaimer you see at the end of movies All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Not quite the same as posited here, but the actor Ian Hunter.had the namesake.in the lead.singer/frontman of that great 1970s band,.Mott the Hoople, who did well on his own for awhile.after.that band broke up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 ..then I assume LIVING IT UP must be a remake of NOTHING SACRED. Sorry, I didn't notice your post. I got confused and thought the post about Raymond Burr was the first in the thread. I HATE this last-post-first format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Humphrey Bogart, BROTHER ORCHID----Jack Buck And in a further case of irony, I THINK Bogie says the following line in that flick after seeing Eddie in monks clothing for the first time... "I can't believe what I just saw!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Faiola Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Raymond Burr, in the "American" release (added footage) of GODZILLA, plays a reporter named Steve Martin. A tribute to a cello-playing vaudevillian!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Faiola Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 In The Bowery George Raft and Wallace Beery play characters named Steve Brodie and Chuck Connors Steve Brodie the actor actually took his name from the real-life Brodie whom Raft portrayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Steve Brodie the actor actually took his name from the real-life Brodie whom Raft portrayed. This kind of reminds me of one Maurice Joseph Mickelwhite who after watching Bogie in a movie go off the deep end while testifying at a court martial would derive part of his stage name from the title of that movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 In "The President's Lady" (1953) one of the political enemies of Andrew Jackson (Charlton Heston) is a gent named Jason Robards (played by Jim Davis). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Steve Brodie the actor actually took his name from the real-life Brodie whom Raft portrayed. When it comes to borrowing, let's not forget Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg, the British actress (and Bond Girl) who took on the name of Henry VIII's third wife -- Jane Seymour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 What about actor Gig Young taking his professional name from the charactor he played in THE GAY SISTERS (1942)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bundie Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 All right, I'll say it... Anne Shirley changed her name from Dawn O'Day to Anne Shirley after playing...well, you know. BLU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Dick Powell as John Kennedy in THE TALL TARGET (ironically trying to prevent Abraham Lincoln from being assassinated). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 All right, I'll say it... Anne Shirley changed her name from Dawn O'Day to Anne Shirley after playing...well, you know. BLU I'm glad that Gregory Peck didn't have the same idea after playing Josef Mengele in THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 What about actor Gig Young taking his professional name from the charactor he played in THE GAY SISTERS (1942)? All right, I'll say it...Anne Shirley changed her name from Dawn O'Day to Anne Shirley after playing...well, you know. These were two-thirds of one of my favorite trivia questions, along with Justus McQueen in Battle Cry playing a character named L.Q. Jones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Barton MacLane in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE as the character "Pat McCormick" who attempts to stiff Bogie and Tim Holt out of their wages ...Pat McCormick actor/comedian/comedy writer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikisoo Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 I just watched the movie HALLOWEEN (1978) for the first time last night and found it funny the killer's name was Mike Meyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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