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Posted by Terry Sills (Member # 3309) on November 04, 2014, 11:33 AM:

Acker Bilk.,Skelton Knaggs - who could forget names like that!
Perhaps we should start a topic with other unusual names - Anyone?

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 04, 2014, 12:10 PM:

How about Rip Torn [Smile]

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on November 04, 2014, 12:27 PM:

Often the best celebrity names are the ones they don't use.

Cary Grant: Archibald Leach
Judy Garland: Frances Gumm
Albert Brooks: Albert Einstein

I mean: wouldn't you rather be called "Cary Grant"?

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on November 04, 2014, 01:46 PM:

John Wayne : Marion Morrison
Roy Rogers : Leonard Sly

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on November 04, 2014, 03:03 PM:

Sadly Mr Acker Bilk has just passed away. Derann released one of his films Band Of Thiefs

Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on November 04, 2014, 03:25 PM:

I had a great grandad named "Brock Tarr"-always fancied that!

Posted by Timothy Duncan (Member # 4461) on November 04, 2014, 03:39 PM:

I feel the name Buster Crabbe did not well represent the good looks of the man.

[ November 05, 2014, 07:55 AM: Message edited by: Timothy Duncan ]

Posted by Paul Mason (Member # 4015) on November 05, 2014, 02:51 AM:

Don't forget Spangler Arlington Brugh (Robert Taylor) [Big Grin]

Posted by Luis Caramelo (Member # 2430) on November 05, 2014, 05:57 AM:

hello! one of mine favorite ones:

KIRK DOUGLAS .ISSUR DANIELOVITCH

Posted by Paul Spinks (Member # 573) on November 08, 2014, 07:35 PM:

Angus Scrimm in "Phantasm" and Kynaston Reeves (there's a great old thespian name) in "Fiend Without a Face".

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on November 08, 2014, 07:52 PM:

Not an actor, but why would anybody ever choose "Engelbert Humperdinck" as a stage name?

Is "Arnold George Dorsey" really that bad? (Could they maybe work with it a little?)

Wikipedia describes "Engelbert Humperdinck" as being a "more arresting" name. I agree, If I woke up one morning and found out that was my real name I'd certainly want somebody to be put under arrest!

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 08, 2014, 08:23 PM:

I guess Red Skelton's name wasn't too unusual...but I did like the name of his character ... Clem Kadiddlehopper.

Posted by Clyde Miles (Member # 4032) on November 12, 2014, 04:46 PM:

don't forget peter lorre, real name lazlo lowenstein!

Posted by Phil Slater (Member # 2388) on November 13, 2014, 10:47 AM:

I always thought Edward Woodward was a strange combination.

Posted by Terry Sills (Member # 3309) on November 13, 2014, 11:35 AM:

Yes Phil
Which prompted the joke -
What do you call a man with a wooden 'ead - Edward
What do you call a man with two wooden 'eads - Edward Wood
What do you call a man with three wooden 'eads - Edward Woodward
Stupid, but funny!,, ( well the kids think so)

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on November 21, 2014, 09:13 AM:

If any celebrity ever born should have had a stage name it's Cloris Leachman.

-it sounds like some kind of industrial laundry detergent! (Even now I'm imagining it stenciled on a 55 gallon drum.)

If she'd married Cary Grant she could have been Cloris Leachman Leach!

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