The Actors Name Game, Last is First

[chindog]

Originally Posted by TexasJeff

DukE EllingtoN (Jazz pianist, band leader)

EmiL Oskar NobeL (Student)


1843 - 1864 Nobel was the brother of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite. He was the only member of his immediate family that went to college. He was a student at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and worked part time at his fathers factory. He and several other factory workers were killed when they were experimenting with nitroglycerin, and it exploded. His brother Alfred was not in the factory when the explosion occurred, but he later discovered how to stabilize dynamite with diatomaceous earth.

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EmiL Oskar NobeL (Student)

Lori Loughlin

Lori Loughlin is an American actress. From 1988 to 1995, she played Rebecca Donaldson Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House, and reprised the role for its Netflix sequel Fuller House (2016–2018). Loughlin is also known for her roles of Jody Travis in The Edge of Night (1980–1983), Debbie Wilson in The CW series 90210 (2008–2012), Jennifer Shannon in the Garage Sale Mystery television film series (2013–2018), and Abigail Stanton in When Calls the Heart (2013–2019). She was a co-creator, producer, and star of the two seasons of The WB series Summerland (2004–2005).

Loughlin and her husband Giannulli were indicted by the FBI and U.S. Attorney for fraud and bribery offenses on March 12, 2019, in a nationwide college bribery scandal. The following day, Loughlin and her husband surrendered to federal authorities in Los Angeles. On May 22, 2020, Loughlin pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, and her husband pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud.

Sentencing took place on August 21, 2020. Loughlin was sentenced to two months in prison while her husband was sentenced to five months. She served her two-month prison sentence at FCI Dublin in northern California from October 30, 2020 to December 28, 2020. At that time she was given a two-year supervised release, which expired in December 2022. In addition, she was fined $150,000 and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service upon her release. Giannulli was sentenced to five months in prison, fined $250,000 and ordered to complete 250 hours of community service. Giannulli reported to prison on November 19, 2020. On April 2, 2021, he was released to home confinement before completing his sentence on April 16, 2021. Loughlin's daughters were able to remain enrolled at USC.

Additional fall-out occurred when Loughlin and Giannulli were named as defendants in a private class-action lawsuit brought by Stanford University graduates, who alleged their education and degrees had been devalued due to their school's association with the case.

Loughlin poked fun at herself and the scandal in a cameo appearance in Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12 episode 6, where having been sponsored to get into an exclusive golf club she then fakes having a disability, cheats at the game, and issues bribes to get popular tee times.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by allenb12

Lori Loughlin

IsaaC NewtoN (Philosopher, mathematician)

He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. Newton's book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, though he developed calculus years before Leibniz. He contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

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IsaaC NewtoN (Philosopher, mathematician)

ChesteR William NimitZ

Chester William Nimitz (February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.

Nimitz was the leading US Navy authority on submarines. Qualified in submarines during his early years, he later oversaw the conversion of these vessels' propulsion from gasoline to diesel, and then later was key in acquiring approval to build the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus, whose propulsion system later completely superseded diesel-powered submarines in the US. He also, beginning in 1917, was the Navy's leading developer of underway replenishment techniques, the tool which during the Pacific war would allow the US fleet to operate away from port almost indefinitely. The chief of the Navy's Bureau of Navigation in 1939, Nimitz served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1945 until 1947. He was the United States' last surviving officer who served in the rank of fleet admiral. The USS Nimitz supercarrier, the lead ship of her class, is named after him.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by allenb12

ChesteR William NimitZ

RoB ZombiE (weird singer and movie maker)

Born Robert Bartleh Cummings. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes, and his live shows have been praised for their elaborate shock rock theatricality. He has sold an estimated 15 million albums worldwide. He rose to fame as a founding member and the frontman of heavy metal band White Zombie, with whom he released four albums.

Zombie's parents worked at a carnival. In 1977, when he was 12, his parents chose to leave after a riot broke out at the carnival and tents were set on fire. He said of the experience, "Everybody's pulling out guns, and you could hear guns going off. I remember this one guy we knew, he was telling us where to go, and some guy just ran up to him and hit him in the face with a hammer—just busted his face wide open. My parents packed up real quick, and we took off." He later elaborated, "I think someone just got ripped off for a lot of money on the gambling tents and they came back later and set the tents on fire [and] it turned into this big riot. [...] It was super violent and crazy and I think that was when my parents were like, 'You know what? We might be able to find something better to be doing here.' Because me and my brother are in the middle of this. Things are on fire, people beating the crap out of each other."

In 1996, he made "Rob Zombie" his legal name.

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

RoB ZombiE (weird singer and movie maker)

BoB EubankS (game show host)


Born 1938 Eubanks has hosted The Newlywed Game off and on since 1966. He is also one of California's most popular deejays. He and his wife bought a ranch in 1970, and Eubanks competed in rodeos in roping competition. He is a gold card member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. He also has worked as a manager of country music stars, including Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell and Marty Robbins. He also managed Merle Haggard for a decade.

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BoB EubankS (game show host)

BenjamiN "Bugsy" SiegeL

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Siegel was influential within the Jewish Mob, along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, and he also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. Described as handsome and charismatic, he became one of the first front-page celebrity gangsters.

Siegel was one of the founders and leaders of Murder, Inc. and became a bootlegger during American Prohibition. The Twenty-first Amendment was passed in 1933 repealing Prohibition, and he turned to gambling. In 1936, he left New York and moved to California. His time as a mobster during this period was mainly as a hitman and muscle, as he was noted for his prowess with guns and violence. In 1941, Siegel was tried for the murder of friend and fellow mobster Harry Greenberg, who had turned informant. He was acquitted in 1942.

Siegel traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he handled and financed some of the original casinos. He assisted developer William R. Wilkerson's Flamingo Hotel after Wilkerson ran out of funds. Siegel assumed control of the project and managed the final stages of construction. The Flamingo opened on December 26, 1946 in a three day event that was well received. Without a hotel to accompany the casino, the Flamingo struggled and closed from February 6 until the hotel opened March 1, 1947. Siegel’s mob partners were convinced that an estimated US$1 million of the construction budget overrun had been skimmed by Siegel's girlfriend Virginia Hill or by both of them.

On the night of June 20, 1947, Siegel was sat on a sofa reading a copy of the Los Angeles Times, together with his associate Allen Smiley, in the living room of 810 North Linden Drive, the Beverly Hills mansion that he had leased for his girlfriend Virginia Hill. Also present in the residence were Virginia's brother, Chick Hill, Hill's girlfriend, Jerry Mason, and Eung S. Lee, the residence's cook. A little before 11:00 p.m., an unknown assailant fired into the living room through a window with a .30 caliber military M1 carbine at a range of "just fourteen feet" from "an archway in the driveway of the house at 808 Linden", resting his weapon "on a trellis just outside the window." The assailant could not be seen from the street due to "an abundance of shrubbery". A total of nine rounds were fired, "four of which found their mark. One hit the bridge of [Siegel]'s nose and ripped out his left eye, a second entered his right cheek and exited at the back of his neck, and two hit him in the chest." According to Florabel Muir, who was "one of the first reporters on the scene", and who had spoken to Siegel earlier that day (he had called "to thank her for a favourable review of a Flamingo show"), the remaining shots "destroyed a white marble statue of Bacchus on a grand piano, and then lodged in the far wall." Muir also claimed that she noticed Siegel's left eyeball lying on the ground, and "picked up the sliver of flesh from which his long eyelashes extended." Smiley's arm had been grazed by a bullet, but he was otherwise unharmed. "Clark Fogg, who for many years was the senior forensic specialist in the Beverly Hills Police Department Lab, concluded that it was more likely that there were two shooters", claiming that ""it would have been nearly impossible for just one gunman" to make such precise shots to Siegel's face because "the mobster's head would have turned upon impact from the first bullet."" No one was ever charged with killing Siegel, and the crime remains officially unsolved.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by allenb12

BenjamiN "Bugsy" SiegeL

NatashA LyonnE (Actress, Comedienne)

Known for her distinctive raspy voice and tough persona. The streaming service Peacock's Poker Face is where I first began watching her. If you haven't seen this show, it's a total tip of the hat to the 70's detective show Columbo.

Daughter of Ivette Buchinger and Aaron Braunstein, a boxing promoter, race car driver, and radio host. Lyonne has joked that her family consists of "my father's side, Flatbush, and my mother's side, Auschwitz". Lyonne has cited John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Lou Reed, Nora Ephron, and Delia Ephron as being professional inspirations.

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NatashA LyonnE (Actress, Comedienne)

AugusT EigrubeR

August Eigruber (16 April 1907 – 28 May 1947) was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Oberdonau (Upper Danube) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He was convicted of war crimes at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and hanged.

After the Anschluss, he was appointed Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria on 14 March 1938. On 10 April he was elected as a member of the German Reichstag, representing Austria. On 1 June 1938, Eigruber joined the SA, with the rank of SA-Brigadeführer effective 12 March. On 25 July, he also joined the SS as a Standartenführer also with an effective date of 12 March. On 22 May Adolf Hitler appointed him Gauleiter of Reichsgau Oberdonau. He thus united under his control the highest party and governmental offices in his jurisdiction.

In September 1938, Gauleiter Eigruber attended the Reichsparteitag in Nuremberg. When Passau Nazis met at the Deutschmeister Inn, Eigruber joined his allies and reminisced about their venture during the Kampfjahre.

He rose to the rank of SS-Brigadeführer in January 1939 and to SS-Gruppenführer in November 1940. On 1 April 1940, he was installed as Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of Oberdonau. In July 1940, the Donau-Zeitung announced that August Eigruber would travel to Passau by ship. There, he would be ceremonially welcomed at City Hall, and attend the latest play by Hans Baumann. On 16 November 1942 came his appointment as Reich Defense Commissioner (Reichsverteidigungskommissar) for his Gau. On 21 June 1943, Eigruber was promoted to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. He was also made an SA-Obergruppenführer on 9 November 1943.

In February 1945, 500 Soviet POWs escaped from Mauthausen. In response, SS soldiers, Sturmabteilung detachments, and Volkssturm men, who were acting on Eigruber's orders, hunted the POWs down in the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd. Nearly all of them were murdered. As for those who were captured, a witness said they heard Eigruber telling commandant Franz Ziereis that "All these pigs will have to be finished."

Toward the end of the war, as U.S. forces approached his capital at Linz, he proclaimed the city a "fortress" to be defended to the bitter end. In April 1945, shortly before the arrival of U.S. forces, he ordered the mass executions of 42 resistance fighters. However, shortly after the beginning of the offensive on 5 May 1945, he fled and proclaimed Linz an open city. He managed to hide out using forged identification papers until 11 August 1945, but was arrested by US Army Counterintelligence, in Sankt Pankraz (a few miles south of Kirchdorf an der Krems)

At the Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials, held under the jurisdiction of the Dachau International Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to death by hanging on 13 May 1946 for his responsibility for crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp, where tens of thousands of prisoners died. The sentence was carried out in the prison yard at Landsberg Prison on 28 May 1947. Eigruber's last words were "Lord, take care of Germany. Lord, take care of my family. Lord, take care of my children. I regard it as an honor to be hanged by the most brutal of victors. Long live Germany!

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Originally Posted by allenb12

NatashA LyonnE (Actress, Comedienne)

AugusT EigrubeR

TudI RochE (actress)


Born 1955 Roche is mostly known for her recurring roll on the TV show Home Improvement as Jill's sister Carrie. She has been married to actor Richard Karne, who played Al Borland on the same series, since 1985.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by chindog

TudI RochE (actress)


Born 1955 Roche is mostly known for her recurring roll on the TV show Home Improvement as Jill's sister Carrie. She has been married to actor Richard Karne, who played Al Borland on the same series, since 1985.

IrmfrieD EberL (Austrian psychiatrist and medical director)

Irmfried Eberl was an Austrian psychiatrist and medical director of the euthanasia institutes in Brandenburg and Bernburg, who helped set up and was the first commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp where he worked as SS-Obersturmführer from 11 July 1942 until his dismissal on 26 August 1942. He was arrested after the end of the war in January 1948. Eberl hanged himself the following month to avoid trial. Trained and practising as a psychiatrist, he was a firm supporter of the mass murder of people with mental disorders.

Eberl was dismissed from Treblinka on 26 August 1942, for incompetence in disposing of the bodies of the thousands of people who had been killed, and was replaced by Franz Stangl, who was previously the commandant of Sobibor extermination camp. Eberl was also relieved of his duty because he was not killing people in an efficient and timely enough manner, and because he was not properly concealing the mass murder from locals.

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

IrmfrieD EberL (Austrian psychiatrist and medical director)

DanieL LamberT (fat guy)


1770 - 1809 Lambert was an English jail keeper and animal breeder in Leicester, England. He was a keen sportsman, and extremely strong. He once fought a bear in the streets of Leicester. He was an expert in sporting animals, and was highly regarded for his expertise in horses, dogs, and fighting cocks. At age 18, he succeeded his father as keeper of Leicester's prison. At that time, even though he was athletically active, did not eat large amounts of food and abstained from alcohol, his weight began to steadily increase. In 1805, the prison closed, and at that time Lambert weighed 700 lbs, and was the heaviest person in recorded history. With his job loss and being unemployable due to his weight, he briefly became a recluse. In 1806, he put himself on public display, charging people to visit him. Because of his intelligence and personality, it became quite fashionable for people to pay to visit him. One of his visitors was King George III. He became somewhat wealthy, and pursued his avocation of breeding sporting dogs and attending sporting events. He died suddenly in 1809, most likely due to a pulmonary embolism. At the time of his death he weighed 739 lbs. His coffin required 112 square feet of lumber.

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DanieL LamberT (fat guy)

LeO TolstoY

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909. Tolstoy never having won a Nobel Prize was a major Nobel Prize controversy, and remains one.

Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856) and with Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's notable works include the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction, as well as two of the greatest books of all time. His fiction includes dozens of short stories such as "After the Ball" (1911), and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859) and Hadji Murad (1912). He also wrote plays and essays concerning philosophical, moral and religious themes.

In the 1870s, Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined in his non-fiction work Confession (1882). His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), had a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly in his novel Resurrection (1899).

Tolstoy received praise from countless authors and critics, both during his lifetime and after. Virginia Woolf called Tolstoy "the greatest of all novelists", and Gary Saul Morson referred to War and Peace as the greatest of all novels.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by allenb12

LeO TolstoY

YU Oh-seonG (Actor)

He is best known for his roles in Beat (1997), Attack the Gas Station (1999), Friend (2001) and Champion (2002). In the USA, he responds to anyone calling out Oh Yu. I'm not sure if he has any siblings named Hey.