November 26, 2004

Christopher Lee Better Get Busy

I think it was last Christmas, sitting around the computer, that we tried to find an actor who had been in more movies than Christopher Lee, and failed.

I finally found one: Walter Brennan was in 210 films in a 50-year career (including 15 from the silent era), and 10 television roles, for a total of 220 credits. Christopher Lee has a total of 223 credits (from 1948 thru 2006), but they include six computer games and 32 television roles. To match Brennan, he needs to land 25 more film roles.

[Minutes after I posted this, I found another actor who almost has to be the all-time champion: 259 film roles over 40 years. Can you guess who it is? Hint: he was in one of the movies Dr. X lists in his post yesterday, as was his son.]

2 Comments:

Blogger The Sum of All Monkeys said...

Hmmm.

Best I could come up with was ~150 for both Fonda and Wayne. Still, I'm not sure what criteria you're using (i.e. including Film & TV & Voice overs?)

Short version: I give. Who is it?

November 28, 2004 at 12:05 PM  
Blogger The Sum of All Monkeys said...

By the way, if you are counting film & TV, I'd say this man is clearly now on my short list of "6 degrees of separation" node points.

November 28, 2004 at 12:12 PM  

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