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« on: October 24, 2008, 12:54:12 PM »

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?
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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2008, 12:58:19 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2008, 01:03:38 PM »

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.
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« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2008, 01:53:46 PM »

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

 
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« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2008, 04:42:46 PM »

CCH Pounder sounds like a male porn star's name.   TongueOut
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« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2008, 05:01:28 PM »

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?

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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2008, 08:49:03 PM »

Emilio Estevez a funny name in my book when you consider it's the name of a person that looks 100% caucasion.
At least EMILIO kept his father's real surname, unlike that woman-beating turd, his brother, CHARLIE SHEEN
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« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2008, 01:00:08 AM »

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...]
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« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2008, 05:16:05 AM »

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.
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« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2008, 05:19:29 AM »

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

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« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2008, 06:53:49 AM »

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.
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« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2008, 07:11:20 AM »

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« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2008, 11:53:59 AM »

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.
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« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2008, 11:55:05 AM »

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« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2008, 12:15:46 PM »

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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.
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