The Actors Name Game, Last is First

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IaN EvanS (historian, knew he was a man)

Nora Eddington

Nora Eddington (February 25, 1924 – April 10, 2001) was an American actress and socialite. She was best known as the second wife of actor Errol Flynn. Eddington appeared in several minor film roles.

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924, the daughter of Jack Eddington of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Nora Eddington was nineteen when she met Errol Flynn in February 1943 at the time, she was working at the courthouse where Flynn's notorious 1943 trial for statutory rape was taking place. Flynn was acquitted and they were married in 1944 in Mexico.  Their daughter, Deirdre, was born on January 10, 1945.  By the time their second daughter, Rory, was born in March 1947, their marriage was already essentially over.  The couple were divorced in 1949, but parted on fairly amicable terms,  with Eddington (then Eddington Flynn) given custody of the children.

Shortly after the divorce she married singer Dick Haymes,  on July 17, 1949. She and Haymes had been having an affair for some time, a fact which became public knowledge by way of the gossip columns. Her marriage to Haymes, during which she suffered a miscarriage, lasted four years, a period which Haymes later characterized in an unpublished autobiography as "not a Dick Haymes marriage". After divorcing Haymes she married Richard Black, a marriage which lasted for most of the rest of her life – they had a son named Kevin, who died from leukemia at the age of 10. Richard and Nora Black divorced sometime before her death.

Eddington was highly critical of Charles Higham's biography of her first husband, Errol Flynn, the Untold Story, stating to Maggie Daly of the Chicago Tribune: "I resent Higham's book because it is a fraud. He hasn't come up with a single document about Errol's supposed tie-in with the Gestapo, but continues to go around the country saying he has". Her own book about her life with Flynn, entitled Errol and Me, was published in 1960.

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Originally Posted by allenb12

IaN EvanS (historian, knew he was a man)

Nora Eddington

ArnolD NeustadteR (businessman and inventor)
1910 - 1996 Neustadter invented the Rolodex rotating desktop card file, which has been called a triumph of low technology. He also invented the Autodex, a spring operated phone directory that opened to a selected letter. Other of his inventions were the Swivodex, an inkwell that didn't spill, the Punchodex, a hole puncher, and the Clipodex, a transcription aid that attached to a stenographer's knee. He died wealthy at age 85.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by chindog

ArnolD NeustadteR (businessman and inventor)

RoberT DowneY (film director, screenwriter)

He was known for writing and directing the underground film Putney Swope (1969), a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Downey's films during the 1960s were "strictly take-no-prisoners affairs, with minimal budgets and outrageous satire, effectively pushing forward the countercultural agenda of the day." He was the father of American actor Robert Downey Jr.

He changed his surname to Downey after his stepfather, when he wanted to enlist in the United States Army while being underage. Downey later said he wrote an unpublished novel during his time in the army, though he spent much of his military career "in the stockade".

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

RoberT DowneY (film director, screenwriter)

ThomaS YounG (scientist)
1773 - 1829 Young made contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, specifically the Rosetta Stone. He has been credited as "the last man who knew everything". His work influenced many other scientists, including Albert Einstein. He is credited with establishing the wave theory of light, which was used by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in developing the Fresnel lens used in lighthouses. (I have a Fresnel lens on the passenger window of my motorhome which lets me see if there is car next to me below the line of site to the window.) He was the first to describe astigmatism of the eye, as well as discovering the color receptors in the retina. Young also contributed to music theory by describing the Young Temperament, a method of tuning and harmonizing musical notes based on mathematical formulas. By 1814 he had completely translated the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone, making it possible to decipher other Egyptian texts. He died at age 55 of aortic heart disease.

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ThomaS YounG (scientist)

Sammy Gravano

Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano (born March 12, 1945) is an American former mobster who rose to the position of underboss in the Gambino crime family. As the underboss, Gravano played a major role in prosecuting John Gotti, the crime family's boss, by agreeing to testify as a government witness against him and other mobsters in a deal in which he confessed to involvement in 19 murders.

Originally an associate for the Colombo crime family, and later for the Brooklyn faction of the Gambino family, Gravano was part of the group in 1985 that conspired to murder Gambino boss Paul Castellano. Gravano played a key role in planning and executing Castellano's murder, along with John Gotti, Angelo Ruggiero, Frank DeCicco, and Joseph Armone.

Soon after Castellano's murder, Gotti elevated Gravano to become an official captain after Salvatore "Toddo" Aurelio stepped down, a position Gravano held until 1987 when he became consigliere. In 1988, he became underboss, a position he held at the time he became a government witness. In 1991, Gravano agreed to turn state's evidence and testify for the prosecution against Gotti after hearing the boss making several disparaging and untrue remarks about Gravano on a wiretap that implicated them both in several murders.

At the time, Gravano was among the highest-ranking members of the Five Families, but broke his blood oath and cooperated with the government. As a result of his testimonies, Gotti and Frank LoCascio were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in 1992. In 1994, a federal judge sentenced Gravano to five years in prison; however, since Gravano had already served four years, the sentence amounted to less than one year. He was released early and entered the U.S. federal Witness Protection Program in Colorado, but left the program in 1995 after eight months and moved to Arizona with his family.

In 1997, Gravano was consulted several times for the biographical book about his life, Underboss, by author Peter Maas. In February 2000, Gravano and nearly 40 other ring members—including his ex-wife Debra, daughter Karen and son Gerard—were arrested on federal and state drug charges.

In 2001, Gravano and his son, Gerard, were indicted on mirror charges with the federal government. In 2002, Gravano was sentenced in New York to twenty years in prison. A month later, he was also sentenced in Arizona to nineteen years in prison to run concurrently. Additionally, Gravano was sentenced to lifetime supervised release and a $100,000 fine. He was released in September 2017.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by allenb12

Sammy Gravano

OtoyA YamaguchI (murderer)

A Japanese right-wing ultranationalist youth who assassinated Inejirō Asanuma, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, on 12 October 1960. Yamaguchi rushed the stage and stabbed Asanuma with a wakizashi-like short sword while Asanuma was participating in a televised election debate at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo. Yamaguchi, who was 17 years of age at the time, had been a member of Bin Akao's far-right Greater Japan Patriotic Party, but had resigned earlier that year, just prior to the assassination. After being arrested and interrogated, Yamaguchi committed suicide while in a detention facility.

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

OtoyA YamaguchI (murderer)

Inejirõ Asanuma (victim and politician)


1898 - 1960 Asanuma was the leader of the Japanese Socialist Party following WWII. He was a supporter of the newly established Peoples Republic of China, and a critic of the United States. During a televised debate in Tokyo on October 12, 1960, he was assassinated by Otoya Yamaguchi, a right wing teenager, who stabbed him with a short sword.

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Inejirõ Asanuma (victim and politician)

AlexandeR OnassiS

Alexander Onassis (April 30, 1948 – January 23, 1973) was an American-born Greek businessman. He was the son of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his first wife Tina Livanos. He and his sister Christina Onassis were upset by his father's marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy, and he was credited with attempting to improve the relationship between his father and Stavros Niarchos.

Born in New York City, Onassis was not formally educated and worked for several years for his father at his headquarters in Monaco. The relationship between Onassis and his father experienced tensions as a result of his secret relationship with British model Fiona Campbell-Walter, former wife of Hans Heinrich, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon. He was later appointed the head of Olympic Aviation, a Greek regional airline owned by his father. Onassis died in hospital as a result of injuries sustained in an air crash at Hellinikon International Airport at the age of 24. The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation was established in his memory.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by allenb12

AlexandeR OnassiS

Sir RodericK David StewarT

Rod Stewart is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter. Known for his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120 million records worldwide. His music career began in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. In 1963, he joined the Dimensions as a harmonica player and vocalist. In 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars before moving to the Jeff Beck Group in 1967. Joining Faces in 1969, he also launched a solo career, releasing his debut album, An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down, that year. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B. His third album, 1971's Every Picture Tells a Story, was his breakthrough, topping the charts in the UK, US, Canada and Australia, as did its ballad "Maggie May". His 1972 follow-up album, Never a Dull Moment, also reached number one in the UK and Australia, while going top three in the US and Canada. Its single, "You Wear It Well", topped the chart in the UK and was a moderate hit elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

Sir RodericK David StewarT

KeviN TighE (actor)


Born 1944 Tighe is mostly known for his portrayal of firefighter Roy DeSoto on the 1972 - 1977 tv series Emergency!. He was cast in his first part as an extra in the 1967 film The Graduate. He continued with bit parts until he won the audition for the Emergency! role. In order to better portray his character, he, along with other cast members, sat in on paramedic classes and did ride alongs with actual fire fighting crews. After the show ended, he continued his friendship with fellow actors Randolf Mantooth, Julie London, and Bobby Troupe. He continued to act until he retired in the mid 2010's.

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KeviN TighE (actor)

NeiL EntwistlE

Neil Entwistle (born 18 September 1978) is an English man convicted of murdering his American wife, Rachel, and their infant daughter, Lillian, on 20 January 2006, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and is incarcerated at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

The bodies of 27-year-old Rachel and 9-month-old Lillian were found on 22 January 2006 in the master bedroom of the family's rented home, where they had been living for ten days. Autopsy results showed that Rachel died of a gunshot wound to the head and Lillian of a gunshot wound to the torso. The bullet that passed through Lillian also pierced Rachel's left breast. The bullets were so small that the one in Rachel's head went undetected until the autopsy.

Hours after the deaths of his wife and daughter, Entwistle purchased a one-way ticket to London at about 5:00 a.m. (EST) on 21 January and boarded a British Airways flight that departed Boston at 8:15 a.m. His speedy departure from the crime scene was not the only reason he raised suspicion: Entwistle's DNA was found on the handle of the same .22 caliber handgun owned by his father-in-law, Joseph Matterazzo, that he told authorities he had only used once, months earlier, while practising at Matterazzo's shooting club. DNA matching that of his wife was found on the gun's muzzle. A set of keys to Materazzo's house were found in the car Entwistle left at Boston's Logan International Airport.

A search of Entwistle's computer revealed that days before the murders, he had viewed a website that described "how to kill people" and searched for escort services. Contrary to outward appearances, Entwistle had been unemployed since September 2005 and was indebted at the time of the murders. Though he claimed an income of $10,000 per month from an "offshore account" set up by his previous employer in the UK, Entwistle had no such income or account. He was also more than $30,000 in credit card debt and was under investigation by eBay for numerous fraudulent transactions. Authorities suspected a financial motivation for the murders.

[TexasJeff]

Originally Posted by allenb12

NeiL EntwistlE

LisA EdelsteiN (Actress)

An American actress and artist. She is known for playing Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the Fox medical drama series House. Edelstein then joined the award winning The Kominsky Method, a Netflix series that debuted in November 2018, playing the drug addled daughter of Alan Arkin and working alongside such actors such as Michael Douglas, Paul Reiser and Chuck Lorre. An excellent show, btw.

At 16, Edelstein was a cheerleader for the New Jersey Generals (USFL). Edelstein participated in a protest against poor working conditions. She said she felt they were treated "like hookers" and helped organize a cheerleader walkout.

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Originally Posted by TexasJeff

LisA EdelsteiN (Actress)

AntonY Noghès (Tobacco Regulator)


1890 - 1978 By profession, Noghes, a citizen of Monaco, was the principality's Director of the Public administration in charge of management of the monopoly for procurement, manufacturing, and selling tobacco. However, he is most famous for being the founder of the Monaco Grand Prix road race. He also helped create the Monte Carlo Rally. He was responsible for the international adoption of using the checkered flag to signal the end of road races.

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AntonY Noghès (Tobacco Regulator)

StevE YeageR

Steve Yeager (born November 24, 1948) is an American former professional baseball catcher. Yeager spent 14 of the 15 seasons of his Major League Baseball career, from 1972 through 1985, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His last year, 1986, he played for the Seattle Mariners. From 2012 to 2018, Yeager was the catching coach for the Dodgers. He was co-MVP of the 1981 World Series.

Yeager helped the Dodgers get to the World Series in 1974, 1977, 1978, and 1981. In the '81 Series against the New York Yankees, he shared the World Series Most Valuable Player award with teammates Pedro Guerrero and Ron Cey. Yeager, who was backing up Mike Scioscia by that time, did not have overwhelming stats for the Series, as he went 4-for-14 (.286), but one of his hits was a double and two were home runs. One of the homers, off Ron Guidry, turned out to be the game-winner in Game 5.

He is the cousin of the late test pilot Chuck Yeager. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was the best man at his wedding to local rock musician Gloria Giaone. Yeager is Jewish, having converted to Judaism when his career was over.