This is Round Twenty-six of the Neverending Movie Chain. Feel free to jump in anywhere you want, post once or post as often as you want just don't reply to yourself. huh

For any new folks joining in <and new folks are definitely encouraged to do so>...

We start by naming a movie, the next player to jump in has to name an actor in that film and the next to follow him/her has to name a different movie that actor was in.

EX:

Player one: Star Wars, Player Two: Mark Hamil, Player Three: Corvette Summer, Player Four: Annie Potts, Player Five: Ghostbusters, etc., etc.

Repeats are allowed but discouraged and there has to be a distance of at least five steps before you use a movie or an an actor a second time. No IMDb please <expect to look up dates of movies with identical titles or spellings of names>. grin

You need to follow the chain as it is drawn, no jumping. If we have Stephen Moyer on the table and someone plays Prince Valiant then the Prince Valiant you have to go out of is the one that had Stephen Moyer in it, no matter how many other movies out there are named Prince Valiant.

A clarification on play. We want to avoid using archival footage. For purposes of our game Dick Clark, Bob Hope, President Kennedy etc. Did not appear in Forrest Gump.

I won't make this a rule but rather a recommendation. Please avoid films that have not been released/aired in the U.S.

And just for the sake of putting it into the written rules mostly for sake of newcomers voice work (animated films) and made-for-TV movies are allowed but not mini-series.

Oh, and the idea is not to stump everyone but to keep the chain going for as long as possible. We play this one on road trips and I don't know why I didn't think to start this up here years ago. It is perfect for the online community because you can jump in whenever and wherever or as often as you want.

Also feel free to add comments about the movies or actors mentioned if you like. Part of the fun is saying “Wow, I haven't thought about that movie for years.” or “I love Errol Flynn!”

I will occasionally be posting images with my plays but it is not a requirement and remember the more people who play the more interesting the chains become so jump in.

We will make our goal for Chain26 to exceed the length of Chain24 which lasted for a mind blowing 1660 steps. Previous to Chain24 the record was held by Chain18 which had 1440 steps in it.

Chain16 had 758 steps. Chain3 557 steps. Chain23 445 steps. Chain 22 345 steps. Chain 25 had 296 steps, Chain1 had 215 steps, Chain8 201 steps, Chain12 173, Chain20 165, Chain11 163, Chain 17 120, Chain9 118, Chain5 had 111 steps, Chain2 108, Chain10 106, Chain15 103, Chain6 98, Chain21 62, Chain13 23, Chain4 10, Chain14 4, and Chain 19 a record breaking 2 steps.

Since the 2019 baseball season opens tomorrow we will start this chain out with...



[1 step]

Susan Sarandon

The Client

[3 steps]

Mary Louise Parker

Red

[5 steps]

Bruce Willis

He was pretty good in:

Glass

Mr. Samuel "Mother-f'ing" Jackson!

[9 steps]

Hayden Christensen

Jumper

Diane Lane

[12 steps]

Chaplin

Robert Downey Jr.

[14 steps]

Spider-man Homecoming

Jon Favreau

[16 steps]

Elf!

James Caan

SOOOOO wanted to go with Kiss Me Goodbye (My fav James Caan movie) but instead going with Get Smart

I usually go with The Rock here but today let's go with...


Steve Carell

...this time.

[20 steps]

The 40 Year-Old Virgin

Seth Rogen

This Is The End

[23 steps]

Emma Watson

Just to be different...



[25 steps]

Josh Gad

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

[27 steps]

Penelope Cruz

[29 STEPS]

Sam Clafin

[31 steps]

Are we stuck or just unavailable?

Keep running into relatively new movies I haven't seen before.

charlize theron

at Jim.

Jason Bateman

[35 steps]

Rip Torn - "If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball"

[37 steps]

David Cross!

The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Uma Thrurman

[40 steps]

Percy Jackson: Lightening Thief

Pierce Brosnan

[42 steps]

Mrs. Doubtfire.

Robert Prosky

[45 steps]

Brendan Fraser

[47 steps]

Encino Man

I need someone to play off The Mummy Returns so we can move on.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

[49 steps]

Well, I think...

Kevin Hart

[51 steps]

John Leguizamo

[53 steps]

William Atherton

Harold Ramis

[57 steps]

Took me a while to come up with this one... I remembered two actors but their names did not want to recur to me.

Andie MacDowell

Hudson Hawk

James Coburn

[60 steps]

Midway

Because Easter is right around the corner...


Charlton Heston

[62 steps]

True Lies!

Arnold Schwarzenegger

[64 steps]

Total Recall

Sharon Stone

[66 steps]

Basic Instinct

Michael Douglas

[68 steps]

Romancing the Stone

Holland Taylor

This one is by me. Anyone else?

The Wedding Date

Amy Adams

[72 steps]

Charlie Wilson's War

Emily Blunt

[75 steps]

Paul Bettany

[77 steps]

Rufus Sewell

[79 steps]

Catherine Zeta-Jones

[81 steps]

Ving Rhames

[83 steps]

Chris Pratt

[85 steps]

Nick Robinson

[87 steps]

Ron Livingston

[89 steps]

Jennifer Aniston

[91 steps]

Alan Arkin

[93 steps]

Dan Ackroyd

[95 steps]

Kathleen Freeman

[97 steps]

Capucine

Trail of the Pink Panther

David Niven

[100 steps]

The Guns of Navarone

Just because we almost never go that way...


Gregory Peck

[102 steps]

To Kill A Mockingbird

Brock Peters

[104 steps]

Major Dundee

Considering that today is Good Friday I almost feel obligated to go with...


Charlton Heston

[106 steps]

And if you're going in that direction:

The Ten Commandments

Yul Brynner

[108 steps]

Hard to avoid:

The Magnificent Seven

Even though there are easier people to play I can't resist...


Robert Vaughn

Today is the day for big movie themes. I couldn't do Major Dundee then pass this one by. Especially since it might be the most famous western theme music ever. Especially to those of us who are old enough to remember cigarette ads on TV.

Bullitt

Jacqueline Bisset

[112 steps]

Dangerous Beauty

Okay, I failed my savings throw and am going to go way out on a limb with...


Moira Kelly

...because I love her name, she is in a guilty pleasure movie that I really like and she is way hot.

[114 steps]

With Honors

Not so far out as I thought apparently...


Brendan Fraser

...and you didn't even use my guilty pleasure which is Cutting Edge.

[116 steps]

Mrs. Winterbourne

Shirley MacLaine

[118 steps]

Bewitched!

Michael Caine

[120 steps]

Now You See Me

Woody Harrelson

[122 steps]

White Men Can't Jump

Dangling bait with...


Wesley Snipes

[124 steps]

Blade

I'm pretty sure

Kris Kristopherson

was in this one...

[127 steps]

Burt Young (Pig Pen)

[129 steps]

Faye Dunaway

Raquel Welch

[133 steps]

Jim Brown

[135 steps]

George Kennedy

[137 steps]

Jean Seberg

[139 steps]

Lee Marvin

[141 steps]

Dorothy Lamour

[143 steps]

Betty Hutton

[145 steps]

Howard Keel

[147 steps]

Bruce Cabot

Staying away from King Kong because I don't know if we can get out of Fay Ray and trying to avoid a john Wayne loop for me, at least, means going to...



[149 steps]

Sean Connery

[151 steps]

Allison Doody (no idea if I spelled that right)

[153 steps]

Tom Berenguer

[155 steps]

Jeff Daniels

[157 steps]

Josh Hutcherson

2008

[159 steps]

I prefer the one that was made around 1960 or so...

Brandon Fraser

Furry Vengeance!

Brooke Shields

[162 steps]

Just You and Me, Kid

in case it not clear the play here is George Burns.

[164 steps]

Oh God, You Devil

I think her name is:

Roxanne Hart

[167 steps]

Celia Imrie

You may not know the name but the face is probably familiar.

[169 steps]

Maggie Smith

[171 steps]

Alan Rickman

John Leguziamo

[175 steps]

Jim Carrey

[177 steps]

Hmmm... Several I know from this movie...

James Whitmore

[179 steps]

Well, I don't remember as many from this movie...

Fess Parker

[181 steps]

Good movie and even better novel.

Aldo Ray

[183 steps]

I know several actors here. Could go with George Takei, but that would lead us off in an awkward direction so...

Irene Tsu

[185 steps]

George Kennedy

[187 steps]

One of my favorites...

Max Von Sydow

Flash (ahhhh-ahhhh) Gordon

Damn mina got in before I could finish working on the edited poster of 3 Days of the Condor. I was going to go a new way just to change things up a bit. Well at least this gets me off movie titles for a while.

And in that same spirit lets try...


Topol

[190 steps]

Avoiding what (to me) is the obvious:

Cast a Giant Shadow

Frank Sinatra

[192 steps]

Ocean's 11 (1960)

to Argus.


Dean Martin

[194 steps]

Rio Bravo

Ricky Nelson is always tempting here but he is only in one other movie that I know of for sure and I'm not certain everyone else does as well, so...


Walter Brennan

[196 steps]

Support Your Local Sheriff

James Garner

[198 steps]

Victor/Victoria

Going for a changeup with...


Alex Karras

[200 steps]

Hmmm... I'll go with:

Blazing Saddles

Slim Pickens

[202 steps]

The Cowboys

Robert Caradine

[204 steps]

Django Unchained

Jamie Fox

[207 steps]

Channing Tatum

She's the Man!

This one is by me. Anyone else?

Julie Hagerty

[211 steps]

Robert Hays

And Don, you need to see She's the Man! Fun movie!

[213 steps]

Shelley Long

[215 steps]

Alexander Godunov

Since we've played Die Hard already I'll go with...



[217 steps]

Lukas Haas

Mars Attacks!

Natalie Portman

[220 steps]

The Professional

Gary Oldman

[222 steps]

Hunter Killer

Gerard Butler

[224 steps]

300

Michael Fassbender

[227 steps]

Peter Dinklage

[229 steps]

Are we stuck here?

Josh Gad!

[231 steps]

Kristen Bell

[233 steps]

Jason Bateman

Game Night

Rachel McAdams

[236 steps]

About Time

Bill Nighy

[238 steps]

Love Actually

Keira Knightley

Collateral Beauty

Kate Winslet

[242 steps]

Divergent

Zoë Kravitz

[244 steps]

Fantastic Beasts: And Where to Find Them

Collin Farrell

[246 steps]

Seven Pyschopaths

Christopher Walken

[248 steps]

Eddie the Eagle

Hugh Jackman

[250 steps]

Kate and Leopold

Meg Ryan

[252 steps]

Inner Space

Dennis Quaid

[254 steps]

A Dog's Purpose

We had Josh Gad recently so I will go out on a bit of a limb and play...


Peggy Lipton

[256 steps]

Let’s go the obvious route.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

J-J


David Bowie

[258 steps]

Zoolander

Milla Jovovich

[260 steps]

Hellboy 2019

I have only seen trailers but I know that...


Ian McShane

...is in it.

[262 steps]

Jack the Giant Slayer

Ewan McGregor

[264 steps]

Trying to avoid the obvious:

Black Hawk Down

Ioan Gruffudd

[266 steps]

Horrible Bosses

Jason Bateman

[268 steps]

Game Night

Kyle Chandler

[270 steps]

Super 8

Elle Fanning

[272 steps]

we are not stuck on Elle Fanning are we?

No- i was just boycotting her, not one of my favorite actresses.

She was in How to Talk to Girls

Nicole Kidman

[274 steps]

Days of Thunder

Randy Quaid

[276 steps]

The Last Detail

Nancy Allen

[278 steps]

1941

Tim Matheson

[280 steps]

A very Brady sequel

Gary Cole

[282 steps]

Blockers!

John Cena

[284 steps]

Okay, considering another thread that is going on elsewhere-

Scooby-Doo: WrestleMania Mystery (2014)

This one is by me.

Don, Frank Welker does the voice of Freddie (and Scooby-Doo in the later cartoons/movies) as well as voice work in many other movies and television shows.

Frank Welker did the voice for the Cave of Wonders in the new Aladdin movie- saw that just this past Friday!

I looked him and Frank Welker has made a career of doing animal sounds/voices in movies as well as animated voice work so he is in a bunch of live action movies like Stargate etc. though he often doesn't get credited.

I haven't seen Aladdin yet but I know that...


Will Smith

...is in it.

[288 steps]

Winter's Tale (2014)

Colin Farrell

[290 steps]

Fright Night

Roddy McDowell

[292 steps]

Planet of the Apes

Don, I think we may have broken, Roddy was not in the 2011 version with Colin Farrell

That is true. It was David Tennet in that roll

Love the Doctor!

Damn! My bad.

There is a new chain up. Go to Neverending Movie Chain27.