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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the Glossary

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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or Bacon's Law is a parlor game where players challenge each other to arbitrarily choose an actor and then connect them to another actor via a film that both actors have appeared in together, repeating this process to try to find the shortest path that ultimately leads to prolific American actor Kevin Bacon.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 70 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Actor, Al-Qaeda, Alan Bates, Albright College, Algorithm, Cartoon Network, Change of Habit, Charitable organization, Check card, Christian Slater, Cinema of the United States, Co-stardom network, Deadline Hollywood, Ed Asner, EE (telecommunications), Elvis Presley, Empire State Building, Erdős number, Erdős–Bacon number, Footloose, Fox Broadcasting Company, Genographic Project, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen, James Franco, James McAvoy, JFK (film), Jon Stewart, Joss Ackland, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Williamson (screenwriter), Mad About You, Michael Fassbender, Morphy number, National Geographic (American TV channel), New York City, Parlour game, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Pierce Brosnan, Plume (publisher), Podcast, Portia de Rossi, Première (magazine), Scooby-Doo, Scream 2, Shortest path problem, Six degrees of separation, SixDegrees.org, Small-world experiment, ... Expand index (20 more) »

  2. Endless Games games
  3. Separation numbers

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor.

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Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.

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Albright College

Albright College is a private liberal arts college in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.

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Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Change of Habit

Change of Habit is a 1969 American crime drama musical film directed by William A. Graham, and starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore.

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Charitable organization

A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).

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Check card

The term check card can refer to.

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Christian Slater

Christian Michael Leonard Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Co-stardom network

In social network analysis, the co-stardom network represents the collaboration graph of film actors i.e. movie stars.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Ed Asner

Eddie Asner (November 15, 1929 – August 29, 2021) was an American actor.

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EE (telecommunications)

EE (formerly Everything Everywhere) is a British mobile network operator, internet service provider and a brand of BT Consumer, a division of BT Group.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Erdős number

The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between mathematician Paul Erdős and another person, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and Erdős number are separation numbers.

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Erdős–Bacon number

A person's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring academic papers between that person and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in films, by which the person is separated from American actor Kevin Bacon. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and Erdős–Bacon number are separation numbers.

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Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross and written by Dean Pitchford.

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.

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Genographic Project

The Genographic Project, launched on 13 April 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, was a genetic anthropological study (sales discontinued on 31 May 2019) that aimed to map historical human migrations patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples.

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Greta Scacchi

Greta Scacchi, OMRI (born 18 February 1960) is an actress known for her roles in the films White Mischief (1987), Presumed Innocent (1990), The Player (1992), Emma (1996) and Looking for Alibrandi (2000).

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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James McAvoy

James McAvoy (born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor.

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JFK (film)

JFK is a 1991 American epic political thriller film written and directed by Oliver Stone.

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Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor and television host.

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Joss Ackland

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film, radio and television roles.

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Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958) is an American actor.

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Kevin Williamson (screenwriter)

Kevin Meade Williamson (born March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.

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Mad About You

Mad About You is an American television sitcom starring Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a married couple in New York City as they navigate life together.

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Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an actor.

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Morphy number

The Morphy number is a measure of how closely a chess player is connected to Paul Morphy (1837–1884) by way of playing chess games. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and Morphy number are separation numbers.

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National Geographic (American TV channel)

National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Entertainment and National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%), with the operational management handled by Disney Entertainment.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Parlour game

A parlour or parlor game is a group game played indoors, named so as they were often played in a parlour.

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is a scientific journal published by the Royal Society.

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Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor and film producer.

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Plume (publisher)

Plume is a publishing company in the United States, founded in 1970 as the trade paperback imprint of New American Library.

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Podcast

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.

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Portia de Rossi

Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers; 31 January 1973), known professionally as Portia de Rossi, is an Australian-American retired actress.

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Première (magazine)

Première is a French film magazine based in Paris and published by Hachette Filipacchi since 1976.

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Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment and created in 1969 by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears through their animated series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera (which was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001).

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Scream 2

Scream 2 is a 1997 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson.

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Shortest path problem

In graph theory, the shortest path problem is the problem of finding a path between two vertices (or nodes) in a graph such that the sum of the weights of its constituent edges is minimized.

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Six degrees of separation

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other.

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SixDegrees.org

SixDegrees.org is a charity led by actor, musician, and philanthropist Kevin Bacon.

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Small-world experiment

The small-world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States.

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Smithsonian (magazine)

Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.

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The Air Up There

The Air Up There is a 1994 American sports comedy film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Kevin Bacon and Charles Gitonga Maina with Yolanda Vazquez as Sister Susan.

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The Following

The Following is an American crime thriller television series created by Kevin Williamson, and jointly produced by Outerbanks Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.

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The Howard Stern Show

The Howard Stern Show is an American radio show hosted by Howard Stern that gained wide recognition when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from WXRK in New York City, between 1986 and 2005.

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The Jon Stewart Show

The Jon Stewart Show is a late night talk show that was hosted by comedian Jon Stewart.

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The Onion

The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news.

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The River Wild

The River Wild is a 1994 American thriller film starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, and David Strathairn.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Usenet newsgroup

A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from users in different locations using the Internet.

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Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor.

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Velma Dinkley

Velma Dinkley is a fictional character in the Scooby-Doo franchise.

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Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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We Married Margo

We Married Margo is a 2000 American independent comedy film directed by J. David Shapiro and co-written by Shapiro and William Dozier.

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White Mischief (film)

White Mischief is a 1987 British drama film starring Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance and Joss Ackland.

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Will & Grace

Will & Grace is an American television sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past is a 2014 superhero film directed and co-produced by Bryan Singer and written by Simon Kinberg from a story he created with Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn.

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X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class (stylized on-screen as X: First Class) is a 2011 superhero film based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics.

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83rd Academy Awards

The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST).

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See also

Endless Games games

Separation numbers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon

Also known as 6 degrees of kevin bacon, Bacon Number, Bacon Rating, Bacon degree, Bacon meter, Kevin Bacon Effect, Kevin Bacon Game.

, Smithsonian (magazine), The Air Up There, The Following, The Howard Stern Show, The Jon Stewart Show, The Onion, The River Wild, Tom Cruise, Turner Classic Movies, USA Today, Usenet newsgroup, Val Kilmer, Velma Dinkley, Visa Inc., We Married Margo, White Mischief (film), Will & Grace, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: First Class, 83rd Academy Awards.