Can you find someone with a “Bacon Number” higher than 4?
Good luck finding anyone with a bacon number greater than 2 when you leverage google’s new search by typing “bacon number” followed by the name of any actor.
I found one that is 4, but don’t want to give it away until others try this thing.
WARNING: 3 hours will race by, so if you have to pick up the kids from music lessons – DON’T TRY IT!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been doing this for the last hour. I am trying to think of every actor I know, including long dead ones. The highest I have found is 3.
I found a 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is tough, I think 4 might be the upper limit. Mine made 1 movie in the 1950’s prior to becoming a TV celebrity.
I found a second 4! You have to think outside the box. To find the upper limit you have to think of people who are not actors but have appeared in TV and movie shows.
Evel Knievel’s Bacon number is 3
@Jason – you are the devil
It is very easy to find people with a bacon number of infinity, but i assume you dont want to count that.
Yes!!! Hugo Chavez as a Bacon Number of 4.
This is really just the tip of their social mapping capability. If they can do this with Kevin Bacon, they can do it with you and any other person. No doubt the three-letter agencies already have this capability, but with data far beyond movie cast lists. They have phone calls, public photographs, banking records, EZ pass data, etc.
What’s your terrorist number?
William Rufus Shafter
True story: I baked a maple apple bacon pie last night. With a latice crust. Poor Kevin.
Hot Brazilian actress Mel Lisboa has a Bacon Number of 4. Don’t do an image search if you are at work.
After his initial frowny face, Puck jumps in. Good on ya’
I protest this one:
Phil Collins was a kid running down a street in A Hard Days Night.
Rmoney does not have a bacon number, but Obama’s is 2.
That’s because Rmoney won’t release his Bacon Number.
Nemski for the win!
Caroline Kennedy’s Bacon number is 5
Cheyenne Arreola: current in first place with a Five spot.
William Rufus Shafter is 7 . . . but don’t count me I found that by accident when I was trying to figure out what the heck you guys were doing LOL.
I looked up Shaffer’s wikipedia page out of curiosity and thought this was humorous:
“Additionally, he is known for having a high “Bacon Index” of 7. He was known informally as “Pecos Bill”.[1]”
So 7 is the top limit (prior to infinity) , but I think 4, 5, 6 are exceedingly rare.
My 4 was Johnny Carson.
Sammy Sosa is a 5
Not an actor, but since others are doing singers, Boy George doesn’t even come up with a Bacon number!
Loriot is a 5.
Yours doesn’t count, Linda, because it came an entire hour after i had already posted it here.
There goes the nation’s productivity surge. Google may have just cost Obama the election.
Igor Morozov 10
I did it! Nancy Wilson, famous rock singer who also appeared in the following films: The Wild Life and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, has no Bacon Number!
Please don’t prove me wrong! I worked for three hours!
Sorry. Sean Penn was in mystic river.
justin bieber is the most famous celebrity with 4
Ken – I’m not necessarily proving you wrong, but I guess it’s a matter of how you define “degrees of Bacon.” I’ve noticed that this Google version only does movies, so unless “someone was in a movie with someone who was in a movie with…” you won’t get an answer. But I’ll bet Nancy (or Ann) is within 6 degrees of Bacon; probably closer than that. (I know my favorite classic rock DJ has met Ann and Nancy Wilson, so I can just call him on Monday morning and ask him HIS degree of Bacon.)
Just as an example of how I need to get a life – and how the Google version works as well…James Michael Tyler (Gunther the Coffee House guy from “Friends”) doesn’t have a Bacon Number, but Jennifer Aniston has a Bacon Number of 1, so as far as I’m concerned James Michael Tyler has a Bacon Number of 2. (I need to get out more.)
Kurt Thomas, “star” of the movie Gymkata (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089243/)(not recommended viewing. My personal rating, negative two and a half stars.)… Strangely, “kurt thomas bacon number” results in… nothing. Well, ok, some links, but no bacon number. Even google won’t look at this movie. Should maybe tell you something.
Justin Bieber is 4
Going strictly by this site, Jamie Hyneman from MythBusters is a 4, although he doesn’t actually show up at all. But Adam Savage does show up as a 3, so you just go on to figure Jamie as a 4.
But, sticking strictly to movies (although not necessarily ACTING in them) Jamie worked on the special effects for “Aracnophobia,” which starred John Goodman, who has a number of 1, making Jamie Hyneman a 2.
And no, I haven’t been doing this all day. I took a nap as well.
Both Fiore Tedesco and Tony Stone from the movie “Severed Ways” have Bacon Numbers of infinity. Legitimate actors in a legitimate movie released internationally.
Why is this interesting?
I found a score of 0 (or would that be infinity?) Iit was someone who was in the movie “The Bodyguard.” Kevin Bacon doesn’t know EVERYone, it seems! I went to high school with Rollin Jewett; his name is now Rollin Jarrett and his Bacon score doesn’t come up on Google.
By zero, you mean infinity I take it. But Jarrett was in “The Bodyguard” there is no way he has a score higher than three. The google score isn’t the final arbiter. It is only a tool. We are on a slippery slope to some Star Trek future where we trade our liberty for security if we outsource our Bacon Number computations to the google.
Norman Coburg, Australian actor, bacon number 3
The oracle of Bacon seems to be a better determinant of someone’s Bacon number.
oracleofbacon.org
Also, it turns out Kevin Bacon is not the best actor to use for this little game. But I forget who is, it’s on the site somewhere.
Rod Stieger is the most connected actor. I think.
Wikipedia agrees with you Jason330. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
I found a hole in the Google search. Robert Schenkkan (actor and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright) has been in movies with both John Lithgow and Christian Slater making him a 2 by more than one path but Google just brings up a Robert Schenkkan search when you look for his Bacon Number.
Google apparently isn’t using its vast search index; it’s using a separate database of actors. If Google can’t find a Bacon number for you, that just means you’re not in their actor database.
Sammy Sosa’s Bacon Number is 5
My Bacon number is 2. Because of movies I’ve done. But actually, it should be 1, because I shared his limo at The Toronto Film Festival, with Aiden Quinn, and we hung out for a while. Very nice guy. So there’sone “higher than 4″…
Earl Montgomery (II) (1894–1966), http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0599770/, who was in 74 films according to IMDB, doesn’t have a Bacon Number, disproving the theory. Oops. There goes that stup1d idea.
Also, Musidora (Les Vapires, 1915) has a Bacon Number of 6, costar Marcel Lévesque has one of 7, (not listed on Google, but since he was in a film with Musidora, who has a BN of 6… by definition, Marcel Lévesque’s number must be 7. This, again, disproves the Six Degrees Of Separation between anyone in film and Kevin Bacon. (And don’t tell me that the film is French and therefore doesn’t count, because at least one member of the cast has a BN that is 6 or less, Édouard Mathé’s is 5, I didn’t bother checking the rest of the cast, because at this point I really don’t need to.)
So much for KB. 🙂
Kerry Washington has a Bacon number of 29
That’s way off. Kerry Washington was in the Ray Charles movie with Jamie Foxx. He was in Collateral with Tom Cruise. Cruise was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.
I think we all have a bacon number, and I think they are all fairly low.
I managed to break the bacon number.
Lon Chaney Sr s number is 3, but part of the chain is Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960). They worked together in The Unknown, a 1927 American silent horror film…….
“Cruise was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.”
I bet he was.
giggity
I suppose if we figured in directors, producers and crew, everyone’s bacon number would be 1 or 2.
yes, but you are probably less degrees than you think without directors, producers,and crew. You might have to include immediate family members. There are enough local actors to do that. Take someone from a lot of movies. If you are one degree away from someone like Bruce Willis (like me), you are probably already pretty close to Kevin Bacon. In a bacon number sense, not a giggity sense.. Not that there would be anything wrong with that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjCTtTwae5M&feature=youtu.be
I tried the actor Richard Hatch who played Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica and got NOTHING at all…seems there are some actors who are not within the 6 degrees
However doing my own research it would be 3
Lorne Greene and Richard Hatch appeared in Battlestar Galactica
Lorne Greene and Walter Matthau appeared in Earthquake
Walter Matthau and Kevin Bacon appeared in JFK
Hal Warren (the man behind Manos: Hand of Fate) has a Bacon Number of 5
James may, from a show in the UK called topgear is a 5! best i have found so far 🙂