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I was watching something with a person named CCH Pounder in it.  I mean, what's up with that?  Her name is Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder.  Wouldn't Carol suffice?  I mean, it sucks having a noun for a last name, but CCH Pounder sounds like something you'd buy from a farm implement dealer.

Or that cute girl on Friday the 13th the TV series, her name is listed as "Robey" in the credits.  Like Robby the Robot or something.  Her first name is Louise;  does she hate Louise that much?

Any more you folks can think of?

Rip Torn

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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is another one that bugs me.  For chrissakes, your last name is 6 syllables long, can we drop the middle name already?  You're only two syllables short of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Emilio Estevez a funny name in my book when you consider it's the name of a person that looks 100% caucasion.

 

CCH Pounder sounds like a male porn star's name.   :tongueout:

The guy who plays the caveman in FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE of FREAKS is billed as ...dig this..."Boris Lugosi"...I kid you not! (real name Salvatore Baccaro.)

...not an actor...but Engleberg Humperdink.Wha da fug?


And don't get me started with porn stars. Long Dong Silver!  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle  :Peter North,Dick Rambo....Cara Lott, Annie Sprinkle,Candy Samples,Little Oral Annie...!!!!  :buggedout:

At least EMILIO kept his father's real surname, unlike that woman-beating turd, his brother, CHARLIE SHEEN. 

Not an actor or anything, but I had a customer the other day whose name was Eduan Naude.   :buggedout:

Wacky name if you ask me [I'll let people figure out why...]

That chap must have been a South African, Dean ~ that's a fairly common name here.

The actor with the weirdest name I have ever heard is Black Eyed Susan ~ I kid you not. :buggedout:

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I'll toss in an easy one: Whoopi Goldberg. The odd thing is that the name does seem to suit her better than Caryn Johnson.

Joaquin Phoenix

There are some actual names that would just look funny beside a movie title, even though they are the  names the actors were given at birth, for example:
"The Sands of Iwo Jima" starring Marion Robert Morrison
"To Catch a Thief" starring Archibald Alexander Leach
These two guys are favorites of mine and have been in some of my favorite movies, but putting their real names after the titles always gives me a laugh.

Prunella Scales

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In addition to her distinctive name she has a very bizarre laugh, the one Basil Fawlty described as sounding like someone machinegunning a seal.

Hmm, I was going to nominate Charles Bronson's credit in "House of Wax", where he played the mute Igor. But IMDB says he was listed as "Charles Buchinsky". I remember a much longer name in the credits. Am I imagining things?

Jareb Dauplaise

Tuesday Knight

Ione Skye

Constance Forslund

Herb Rice

She must know the aforementioned Charlie Sheen.   :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

Or that popular sitcom, Barney Miller, starring Hal Lips**tz.

The Shend

Tuesday Weld is another one.  A day followed by a type of joint formed by melting metal. 

The first name, the last name or both?  On their own I'd think nothing of it, but what wierds me out is that you can spell his name backwards and it doesn't change anything!  His name backwards is his name forwards! 

You crazy South Africans...

I seem to recall an actor calling himself 'Red Buttons' appearing in some big name movies like "The Poseidon Adventure".

Skelton Knaggs:  Scrawny, pock-marked 40's character actor who popped up in many of the RKO and the later Universal horror films.

Butterfly McQueen: Screechy-voiced African-American character actress best know as "Miss Prissy" in GONE WITH THE WIND.

Joy Bang:  Bubbly blonde actress who had a brief career in the early 70's including roles in PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW, NIGHT OF THE COBRA WOMAN, and PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM and guest spots on TV series such as Adam-12, Hawaii Five-0,  and Medical Center .

Several African American character actors appeared in many films during the 30's and 40's under what would be considered pretty offensive (but still weird!) stage names like Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, and Sleep n' Eat.

Oh, lord, I hated her. I grit my teeth till her scenes are over. Hate the voice, and hate the idiotic character, but I guess you weren't going to find too many great A-A parts in 1939.

Wings Hauser - Always sounded like something you'd see on a menu, right after Eggs Benedict.

His given name was Aaron Chwatt, he received an Oscar for his role as Joe Kelly in the film "Sayonara". His co-star in the film Miyoshi Umeki also won an Oscar. It's a good movie to watch with your wife or girlfriend.

Howzabout Deep Roy? He also goes by Roy Deep, but that doesn't really help all that much.

Skeet Ulrich  :bouncegiggle:

Scatman Crothers, Redd Foxx, Slappy White. Not offensive, rather cool, but still weird.

Edward Woodward

Woodrow 'Woody' Harrelson

Woody Allen

Ed Wood

imagine them 4 in a room together watching Woody Woodpecker... noice

Definitely gets the prize for being most awkward to say. I remember Benny Hill doing a joke in which he was asked who his favourite actor would be. His response was (and you have to do it with the right accent) "I would say that Edward Woodward would." Sounded like "Edwoodwoodwoodwood."  :bouncegiggle:

lol

yeah we pronounce the 'ward' in edward the same as 'wood', but you (I'm assuming you're U.S.) put more of an emphasis on the 'R', am I right? name probably sounds stranger to us than you...maybe

I always say his name without the d's  :bouncegiggle:

Canada actually, but yeah, we put more emphasis on the 'R' which does make it less funny, but also more awkward to say.

Fairuza Baulk