Pointless Facts Thread

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Sophia Loren made her film debut as an extra in crowd scenes in the film Quo Vadis (1950), seven years before she arrived in Hollywood with husband Carlo Ponti.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Jamie Farr's signature role will always be that of Corporal Max Klinger, the resourceful enlisted man who wore women's clothing to get out of the Army on the TV's M*A*SH. Farr's film debut was as Santini, a student in Blackboard Jungle (1955), which credited him as Jameel Farah (his real name). He was a stock player as a delivery boy on The Dick Van Dyke Show in 1961. Farr's role on M*A*S*H, from 1972 through 1983, evolved from a bit part as a transvestite in the fourth episode of the series. Following the success of his debut performance, Farr became a permanent and prominent character on the show.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Some film stars got their first crack at stardom in television commercials. Susan Sarandon, Harrison Ford, and F. Murray Abraham are among those who later achieved fame on the big screen, but started as actors in ads. Tom Selleck was popular in Chaz commercials and Farrah Fawcett's face (and blonde tresses) became well-known to the public from Wella Balsam ads. Sela Ward, Sarah Michelle Geller, Shelley Long, Jaclyn Smith, Scott Bakula, Melissa Joan Hart, John Goodman, and Faith Ford also started in TV commercials.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Sean Penn made his television debut in an episode of Barnaby Jones. He had one line.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Product endorsement by well-known celebrities has lost the stigma it once had - it is also very lucrative for little work. Here are some famous people and the products they are (or were once) associated with in the past three decades:

Andre Agassi: Mountain Dew

Jason Alexander: Rold Gold pretzels

June Allyson: Depends

Christine Baranski: Cadillac Seville

Charles Barkley: McDonald's, Right Guard

Crystal Bernard: The Q exercise gym

Candice Bergen: Sprint

Chevy Chase: Doritos, Ocean Spray

Bill Cosby: Kodak, Jell-O

Jamie Lee Curtis: Equal sugar substitute

Catherine Deneuve: Chanel fragrance, Mercury Cougar

Angie Dickenson and Burt Bacharach: Martini and Rossi

Duchess of York (Sarah Ferguson): Ocean Spray, Weight Watchers

Chad Everett: Aamco

Fabio: I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

Lola Falana: Fabergé Tigress perfume

George Foreman: Frito-Lay

Michael J. Fox: Pepsi-Cola

Cast of "Friends": Coca-Cola

James Garner: Kodak

Kathy Lee Gifford: Carnival Cruises

Whoopi Goldberg: MCI

Cuba Gooding, Jr.: Pepsi One

Kelsey Grammer: McDonald's

Mariette Hartley: Kodak

Kate Jackson: Lincoln Mercury

Michael Jackson: Pepsi-Cola

The Jefferson Airplane: Levi's

Michael Jordan: McDonald's, Nike, Hanes

Angela Lansbury: Ensure nutritional supplement

Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Clairol Nice 'N' Easy

John Lithgow: 10-10-321 phone service

Reba McEntire: Fritos

Madonna: Pepsi-Cola

Karl Malden: American Express

Marky Mark (Mark Wahlberg): Calvin Klein underwear

Penny Marshall: K Mart

Bebe Neuwirth: M & M candies

Rosie O'Donnell: K Mart

Roy Orbison: Coca-Cola

Shaquille O'Neal: Pepsi-Cola, Taco Bell

Bernadette Peters: Ocean Spray

Regis Philbin: Carnival Cruises, Earthgrains bagels

Annie Potts: Pop Secret popcorn

Jane Powell: Polident

Elvis Presley: Southern Maid Doughnuts

Burt Reynolds: Florida Citrus Growers

Jane Russell: Cross Your Heart bra

Jerry Seinfeld: American Express

Tom Selleck: AT & T, Chaz fragrance

Jane Seymour: Loving Care hair color

Ally Sheedy: Chevrolet

Cybill Shepherd: L'Oreal hair color

Brooke Shields: Calvin Klein jeans

Suzanne Somers: Thigh Master, Ace Hardware

Ringo Starr: Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust Pizza

James Stewart: Campbell soups

Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara: Blue Nun wine

The Temptations: Coca-Cola

Cindy Williams: Jenny Craig

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Master of suspense, film director Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated with the power of the single-word film title, and used it 15 times. Those films include:


Blackmail
Murder!
Sabotage
Rebecca
Suspicion
Saboteur
Lifeboat
Spellbound
Notorious
Rope
Vertigo
Psycho
Marnie
Topaz
Frenzy

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

All Academy Award winners since 1950 have been required by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences to sign releases indicating they will not sell their Oscars.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Frances McDormand (Fargo) defeated Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) to win the Best Actress Oscar in 1996. McDormand became the first star to win in a film directed by a spouse, husband Joel Coen. Her brother-in-law, Ethan Coen, was the film's producer.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Other wives nominated for films made by their director husbands:
Gena Rowlands (A Woman Under the Influence), directed by husband John Cassavetes
Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), directed by husband Jules Dassin
Julie Andrews (Victor, Victoria) directed by husband Blake Edwards.
To date, no female directors have had their starring husbands receive an Oscar nod.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Geoffrey Rush became the first Australian actor to win Best Actor since Peter Finch won posthumously for Network (1976). Rush's win was all the more surprising because he played only one-third of the role of the mad pianist in Shine (1996).

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Actress Linda Hunt was the first person to win an Academy Award for portraying a person of the opposite sex; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1983 for her brilliant performance as Billy Kwan, a male photographer, in The Year of Living Dangerously. Hunt also reaped the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and the National Board of Review award for her performance

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

In 1953, Walt Disney (the man, not the studio) received Oscars in the categories of Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Cartoon Short Subject, and Two-Reel Short Subject. These four Academy Awards are the most ever won by one person in a single year. Disney personally received 26 Academy Awards during his lifetime, including a unique set of miniature Oscars for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, making him the Academy's most honored individual.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Wings (1927-1928) was the first and only silent film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

The following films won the Best Picture Oscar, yet didn't win any of the other major awards (i.e., Best Director or any of the four acting awards), which seems incongruous for a "Best Picture":

Wings (1928)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Cimarron (1931)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Rebecca (1940)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Chariots of Fire (1981).

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs (1990) despite appearing in only a few scenes.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

To date, only five performers have won two Oscars back-to-back:

Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937).
Spencer Tracy for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938).
Katharine Hepburn for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968).
Jason Robards, Jr. for All the President's Men (1976) and Julia (1977).
Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994).

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

In 1978, at age 29, Richard Dreyfuss became the youngest man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for The Goodbye Girl. Marlee Matlin, at age 21, was the youngest female to win an Oscar for Best Actress, for the film Children of a Lesser God.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Films with lengthy titles don't often crack into the line-up for Best Picture Academy Awards. During Oscar's history, the longest title for a Best Picture winner has contained six words, a distinction held by just seven films:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
You Can't Take it With You (1938)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Parents of celebrities have next-to-nothing in common with each other, as evidenced here in this list of their occupations:

Ben Affleck
Father: drug rehabilitation counselor
Mother: teacher.

Isaac Asimov
Father: candy store owner.

Steven Bochco
Father: Rudolph Bochco, child prodigy violinist who later played with Broadway-show orchestras and with Carnegie Hall leading artists.

Sandra Bullock
Mother: Helga Bullock, opera singer.

Tim Burton
Father: minor-league baseball player, Burbank parks official
Mother: shop manager, once owned a cat-accessory store.

Michael Caine
Father: dock worker
Mother: cleaning woman.

Drew Carey
"Father: General Motors draftsman
Mother: secretary.

Kurt Cobain
Father: auto mechanic
Mother: cocktail waitress."

Ted Danson
Father: director of a local Native American Museum.

Johnny Depp
Father: city engineer
Mother: waitress.

Charles Dickens
Father: British Naval Pay Office clerk.

Anthony Edwards
Father: architect
Mother: artist.

Federico Fellini
Father: traveling salesman of confections, preserves, and coffee.

Audrey Hepburn
Father: English banker
Mother: Dutch baroness.

Nicole Kidman
Father: biochemist
Mother: nursing instructor.

Jennifer Lopez
Father: computer specialist
Mother: kindergarten teacher.

Courtney Love
Father: author/publisher
Mother: psychologist.

Conan O’Brien
Father: doctor
Mother: lawyer.

Matthew Perry
Father: actor John Bennett Perry (Old Spice commercials in 1970s)
Mother: press aide to Pierre Trudeau.

Jada Pinkett-Smith
Father: contractor
Mother: nurse.

Brad Pitt
Father: trucking firm manager.

Julia Roberts
Father: vacuum salesman
Mother: church secretary.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Father: police chief in Graz, Austria.

David Schwimmer
Father: attorney
Mother: attorney who handled Roseanne’s first divorce.

Alicia Silverstone
Father: real estate investor
Mother: former airline stewardess.

Will Smith
Father: engineer
Mother: school board employee.

John Travolta
Father: tire salesman and former semiprofessional football player
Mother: high school teacher.

Barbara Walters
Father: owner of New York’s famed “Latin Quarter” nightclub before going bankrupt.

Denzel Washington
Father: Pentecostal minister
Mother: beautician.

Catherine Zeta-Jones
Father: Welsh candy factory manager
Mother: Irish seamstress.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Some U.S. Presidents were more interesting than others. Here are a handful of "P.O.T.U.S. (President of the United States) Highlights"


First Cowboy P.O.T.U.S.:
Theodore Roosevelt worked as a cowboy on a ranch in the Dakota Territory while in his late twenties.

Last P.O.T.U.S. whom every visitor to Washington could meet:
Calvin Coolidge.

First P.O.T.U.S. on a postage stamp:
George Washington, in 1847.

Letters mailed in one day to the P.O.T.U.S.:
About 20,000.

P.O.T.U.S. birthplaces:
19 states (38 percent) - most of our 50 states (62%) have not had a P.O.T.U.S. born within their borders.

Only P.O.T.U.S. to have ever received a patent:
Abraham Lincoln, in 1849. He was granted a patent for his idea to lift vessels more easily over shoals by inflating air chambers near the water line. His invention never got past the patent stage.

Redheaded P.O.T.U.S.'s:
George Washington, Martin Van Buren, and Thomas Jefferson.

First "First Lady" to hold a press conference:
Eleanor Roosevelt.

Only P.O.T.U.S. to serve as U.S. Chief Justice:
William Howard Taft.

Only P.O.T.U.S. who did not once change his Cabinet at all during his four years in office:
Franklin Pierce.

Unusual P.O.T.U.S. pets:
Thomas Jefferson - Mockingbird. John Quincy Adams - Alligator. Abraham Lincoln - Goat. Theodore Roosevelt - Bear, badger. Calvin Coolidge - Wallaby, lion cub.

First P.O.T.U.S. aircraft:
Franklin D. Roosevelt's specially equipped Douglas DC-4, nicknamed "The Sacred Cow."

P.O.T.U.S. faux pas:
Pres. George Bush gave Chinese Premier Li Peng a gift pair of cowboy boots. One boot displayed the Chinese flag, the other, the Stars and Stripes. In Asia, the sole of the foot is considered the lowliest, dirtiest part of the body, so mixing flags and shoes was viewed as an act of exceedingly poor taste.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Here's the complete list of 007 films through the year 2000; the next with Brosnan is due in 2002.

Film Title Actor Film's Release Date
Dr. No Sean Connery May 1963
From Russia with Love Sean Connery April 1964
Goldfinger Sean Connery December 1964
Thunderball Sean Connery December 1965
Casino Royale (unofficial) David Niven April 1967
You Only Live Twice Sean Connery June 1967
On Her Majesty's Secret Service George Lazenby December 1969
Diamonds Are Forever Sean Connery December 1971
Live and Let Die Roger Moore June 1973
The Man with the Golden Gun Roger Moore December 1974
The Spy Who Loved Me Roger Moore July 1977
Moonraker Roger Moore June 1979
For Your Eyes Only Roger Moore June 1981
Octopussy Roger Moore June 1983
Never Say Never Again (unofficial) Sean Connery October 1983
A View to a Kill Roger Moore May 1985
The Living Daylights Timothy Dalton July 1987
Licence to Kill Timothy Dalton July 1989
GoldenEye Pierce Brosnan November 1995
Tomorrow Never Dies Pierce Brosnan December 1997
The World Is Not Enough Pierce Brosnan November 1999

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

The Simpsons burst from its incubator on The Tracey Ullman Show and invaded television airwaves solo on December 17, 1989. The show's signature onslaught of rapid-fire sight gags, pop-cultural spoofing, and biting social satire hasn't shown signs of slowing.

Since then, the impertinent, half-hour series has successfully satirized (and barbecued) nearly every sacred cow known to modern civilization.

It is now the longest running animated prime time series in TV history, breaking the record held by The Flintstones when its 167th episode aired on February 9, 1997. It also holds the record for the most guest stars in a television series. In January 2000, a star for the Simpson family was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And, The Simpsons also has had several uncomfortable (but not unexpected) run-ins with the Catholic church.

Since the comedy's kickoff, actors Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, and Harry Shearer have regularly supplied the voices of the Simpson clan (Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and Grampa) and many of the offbeat residents of hometown Springfield. Recurring characters have been played by Marcia Wallace, Phil Hartman, Pamela Hayden, Maggie Roswell, Doris Grau, Frank Welker, Jo Ann Harris, and Russi Taylor, among others.

Following the success of The Simpsons' first season on the Fox network, celebrities first cautiously, then eagerly, agreed to be parodied on the show; oftentimes, they supplied their own voices for their cartoon counterparts. Now, more than a decade after the show's 1989 debut, more than 200 luminaries have joined in the keen lunacy of The Simpsons.

Many entertainers have lent their vocal talents, as well as leaders in science, industry, and sports, to the show. Groups such as The Who, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The B-52's, The Smashing Pumpkins, and The Ramones have performed self-poking cameos. Paul and Linda McCartney agreed to portray themselves (episode 133, October 1995), on the stipulation that Lisa Simpson would remain a vegetarian through the show's run. Amid much publicity, Elizabeth Taylor supplied the voice of baby Maggie when she uttered her first word (episode 69, December 1992); Whoopi Goldberg had wanted the role. Even the voices of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (season 10) and astronaut Neil Armstrong (season 4), thanks to archival recordings, are part of Springfield's infamous family tree.

Here's a sampling of the venerable voices that have guest-starred on Matt Groening's multi-award-winning brainchild:

Alec Baldwin
Johnny Unitas
Alex Trebek
Kathie Lee Gifford
Anne Bancroft
Kelsey Grammer
Barry White
Ken Griffey, Jr.
Bette Midler
Kid Rock
Bob Hope
Kim Basinger
Bobcat Goldthwait
Leonard Nimoy
Britney Spears
Linda Ronstadt
Brooke Shields
Lucy Lawless
Buzz Aldrin
Mark McGwire
Charlie Rose
Martin Sheen
Christina Ricci
Mel Gibson
Darryl Strawberry
Meryl Streep
Daryl Gates
Mickey Rooney
David Crosby
Patrick Stewart
David Duchovny
Peter Frampton
Dennis Franz
Rhea Perlman
Dick Clark
Ringo Starr
Dolly Parton
Rod Steiger
Dr. Demento
Ron Howard
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Rupert Murdoch
Elton John
Steve Allen
Gillian Anderson
Steve Martin
George Harrison
Steven Hawking
Helen Hunt
Sting
Isabella Rossellini
Suzanne Somers
Jack LaLanne
Ted Danson
Jay Leno
Tito Puente
Jeff Goldblum
Tony Bennett
Jerry Springer
Troy Aikman
Joe Namath
Willem Dafoe
John Walsh
Willie Nelson
Johnny Carson
Winona Ryder
Johnny Cash
Woody Harrelson

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Here it is - the list of over 600 interesting and unusual town names in the Canada, as of 2001:


Alberta Acme
Alliance
Barrhead
Bearberry
Belly River
Bonanza
Bragg Creek
Byemoor
Carrot Creek
Castor
Cereal
Champion
Chin
Cold Lake
Community Punch Bowl
Consort
Coronation
Crooked Creek
Czar
Dead Man's Flats
Diamond City
Driftpile
Entrance
Fork Lake
Freedom
Frog Lake
Ghost Lake
Grassland
Grassy Lake
High Level
Lesser Slave Lake
Little Smoky
Loon Lake
Lucifer Mountain **
Ma-Me-O Beach
Manyberries
Marlboro
Medicine Hat
Milk River
Monitor
Nojack
Okotoks
One Four
Onion Lake
Pocahontas
Poe
Reno
Rosebud
Seven Persons
Skiff
Stand Off
Tiger Lily
Veteran
Viking
Vulcan
Wander River
British Columbia 100 Mile House
108 Mile House
108 Mile Ranch
150 Mile House
40 Miles Flats
7 Miles Corner
70 Mile House
93 Mile House
Anarchist Mountain **
Arrowsmith Mountain **
Austerity Mountain **
Avalanche Mountain **
Baldy Hughes
Blind Bay
Blubber Bay
Boat Basin
Boston Bar
Brilliant
Bugaboos, The-More Mountain Peaks
Buick
Canoe
Canyon
Chase
Chasm
Cheekye
Combatant Mountain **
Craigellachie
Cranberry Lake
Dawson Landing
Departure Bay
Fanny Bay
Fascination Mountain **
Field
Flathead
Fruitvale
Gang Ranch
Gold Bridge
Golden
Good Hope Mountain **
Grand Forks
Grindrod
Halfmoon Bay
Hooker Mountain **
Hope
Horsefly
Horseshoe Bay
Houston
Likely
Lillooet
Lions Bay
Loos
Lulu Island
Mansons Landing
Merritt
Mission
Mount Currie
Muncho Lake
Needles
Observatory Inlet
Ogre Mountain **
Oyster Bay
Parsnip River
Pavilion
Penney
Poopoo Creek
Pouce Coupe
Procter
Prophet River
Quincey Adams Mountain **
Radium Hot Springs
Razorback Mountain **
Remote Mountain **
Resplendent Mountain **
Royal Canadian Air Force Peak
Salmon Arm
Sandspit
Skidegate
Skookumchuck
Smugglers Cove
Sorcerer Mountain **
Spuzzum
Stupendous Mountain **
Ta Ta Creek
Teepee Mountain **
Terry Fox Mountain **
Tornado Mountain **
Tranquille
Ware
Wasa
Yahk
Ymir
Youbou
Zero Lake
Zeus Glacier
Zexwzaxw Glacier
Zippermouth Lake
Manitoba Bagot
Bird
BirdTail
Boggy Creek
Brokenhead
Button
Camper
Cooks Creek
Cranberry Portage
Crystal City
Dog Creek
Domain
Ebb and Flow
Eden
Finger
Flin Flon
Gambler
Gods Lake
Grand Rapids
Hone
Jackhead
Lizard Point
Miami
Minnedosa
Nonsuch
Optic Lake
Pilot Mound
Rapid City
Red Sucker Lake
Root Lake
Sandy Hook
Seven Sisters
Snowflake
Starbuck
Tidal
Wampum
Zbaraz
New Brunswick Bath
Brewers Mills
Cork
Currie
Dipper Harbour
Eel River Crossing
Five Fingers
Frosty Hollow
Gondola Point
Knowlesville
Mechanic Settlement
North Pole Mountain **
Partridge Island
Passamaquoddy Bay
Poodiac
Reversing Falls
Ripples
Sackville
Utopia Lake
Zealand Station
Newfoundland Ass Hill
Ass Rock
Back Cove
Bacon Cove
Badger
Bar Haven
Bareneed
Bay Bulls
Billy Butts Pond
Blow Me Down
Bottle Cove
Butter Cove
Cape Onion
Catalina
Change Islands
Chapel Arm
Coffee Cove
Come-By-Chance
Comfort Cove
Conception Bay
Cow Head
Cupids
Curling
Deadman's Bay
Deadman's Cove
Diamond Cove
*****
Exploits River
Ferryland
Fleur de Lys
Flowers Cove
Fortune
Fox Roost
Foxtrap
Frenchman's Cove
Funk Lake
Furby's Cove
Gander
Gin Cove
Goblin
Goobies
Halfway Point
Happy Adventure
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
Hare Bay
Hatchet Cove
Hearts Content
Hearts Delight
Heart's Desire
Jerrys Nose
Lawn
Leading Tickles West
Little Seldom
Low Point
Mosquito
Mouse Island
Nameless Cove
New World Island
Nippers Harbour
Noggin Cove
Old Man's Head
Old Room
Paradise
Pasadena
Penetanguishene
Petty Harbour
Poor Boy Island
Quidi Vidi Harbour
Red Indian Lake
River of Ponds
Salvage
Seldom
Small Point
St. Jones Within
St. Jones Without
Stag Harbour
Tickle Cove
Toogood Arm
Virgin Arm
Wild Bight
Wreck Cove
Northwest Territories Artillery Lake
Buffalo River
Echo Bay
Enterprise
Eskimo Lakes
Great Bear Lake
Great Slave Lake
Jean Marie River
Reliance
The Ramparts
Thumb Island
Tuktoyaktuk
Yellowknife
Wrigley
Nova Scotia Advocate Harbour
Bangs Falls
Barneys River
Barneys River Station
Bible Hill
Brooklyn
Canada Creek
Canning
Catalone
Chance Harbour
Chimney Corner
Christmas Island
Coddle Harbour
Coffee Cove
Concession
Diligent River
Dingwall
Economy
Ecum Secum
Egypt Road
Eight Island Lake
Factorydale
Five Islands
Gore
Harmony
Harmony Mills
Homeville
Italy Cross
Lake Echo
Lapland
Liverpool
Meat Cove
Militia Point
Mink Cove
Monastery
Mushaboom
Noel
Nuttby
Old Sweat
Paradise
Poor Island
Portuguese Cove
Pugwash
Pugwash Junction
Sable Island
Sackville
Scotch Village
Shubenacadie
Skir Dhu
Spanish Ship Bay
Sugar Loaf
Sweetland
Upper Big Tacadie
Urbania
Whycocomagh
Nunavut Belcher Islands
Chesterfield Inlet
Eclipse Sound
Gjoa Haven
Old Squaw Islands
Prince Charles Island
Repulse Bay
Resolute
Royal Geographical Society Islands
Zebra Mountain **
Zigzag Island
Ontario Ajax
Apple Hill
Balm Beach
Bastard
Bath
Bobcaygeon
Bond Head
Borups Corners
Bright
Bruce Beach
Brussels
Buena Vista Park
Caesarea
Cankerville
Canoe Lake
Carlsbad Springs
Carp
Carrying Place
Cataract
Ceylon
Chalk River
Coldwater
Copenhagen
Credit River
Crooked Creek
Crotch Lake
Cruise Lake
Curve Lake
Dawn
Detroit River
Disney Island
Dome
Dummer
Ear Falls
East Gwillimbury
East Zorra
Eastwood
Field
Fire River
Forest
Front of Escott
Funnybone Lake
Gameland
Gargantua Cape
Gas Line
Gore Bay
Grimsby
Hagar
Happyland
Honey Harbour
Hungerford
Ingolf
Kee-Way-Win
Kiosk
Lagoon City
Larder Lake
Limoges
Little Britain
Lively
Lost Channel
Marathon
McDonalds Corners
Merlin
Middlesex
Monkland
Mono
Moonbeam
Moose Factory
Moscow
Mountain **
Nipissing
Nixon
Nobel
Nottawa
Nowhere Island
Old Woman Bay
Oldmans Pocket
Pain Court
Paisley
Paris
Parry Sound
Peel
Penetanguishene
Pickle Lake
Pooch Lake
Pooh Lake
Porcupine
Port Franks
Portland
Pronto East
Proton
Punkeydoodles Corners
Puppy Lake
Rainy Lake and Rainy River
Rear of Leed and Lansdowne
Rear of Yonge and Escott
Ripley
Sandwich South
Scotland
Shakespeare
Shallow Lake
Spanish
Sucker Creek
Sultan
Swastika
Thunder Bay
Tiny
Turkey Point
Wawa
Welcome
Winona
Wyoming
Zero Lake
Zigzig Island
Zone
Zorra
Zurich
Zywina Lake
Prince Edward Island 48 Road
Alaska
Cable Head and Cable Head East and West
Cardigan
Christoper Cross
Commercial Cross
Crapaud
Crossroads
Dingwells Mills
East Royalty
Ebenezer
Five Houses
Green Gables
Harmony
Harmony Junction
Head of Hillsborough
Head of Montague
Lady Slipper
Linkletter
Loyalist
Mermaid
Mount Carmel
Nail Pond
Nun's Island
Old Harry
Oyster Bed Bridge
Pennies Road
Poodles Corner
Priest Pond
Prince
Savage Harbour
Skinners Pond
Toronto
Uigg
Victoria Cross
Whim Road
Quebec Aachikaayusaakaasich Portage
Asbestos
Beebe Plain
Begin
Bury
Cadillac
Cleveland
Crabtree
Disraeli
Funny Lake
Godmanchester
Grande-Entree
Ha! Ha!, Baie des
Ham North
Ham South
Hope Town
Jesus Ile
Magpie
Mayo
Nitro
Nun's Island
Old Harry
Otter
Parent
Pointe-Comfort
Pontiac
Plaines of Abraham
Price
Puppy Lake
****agoo Lake
Saint Noel
Shigawake
Sillery
Vimy Ridge
Yarm
Zaza Lake
Zero Lake
Ziggy Lake
Zip Lake
Saskatchewan Amsterdam
Amulet
Aneroid
Antelope
Baldwinton
Big Beaver
Biggar
Blumenheim
B-Say-Tah
Buffalo Narrows
Cadillac
Candle Lake
Carrot River
Ceylon
Chicken
Choiceland
Climax
Congress
Conquest
Cut Knife
Druid
Earl Grey
Ebenezer
Edelman Lake
Elbow
Endeavour
Eyebrow
Foam Lake
Frontier
Grandmother's Bay
Grizzly Bear's Head & The Lean Man
Hague
Hitchcock
Holdfast
Hoosier
Imperial
Jackfish Lake
Knee Lake
Leader
Liberty
Limerick
Lipton
Little Bone
Loon Lake
Love
Lucky Lake
Lucky Man
Major
Milestone
Moose Jaw
Mozart
Nut Mountain **
Old Wives Lake
Onion Lake
Outlook
Oxbow
Pennant
Piapot
Plenty
Poor Man
Porcupine Plain
Quill Lake
Reserve
Revenue
Reward
Sanctuary
Semans
Smuts
Snipe Lake
Spy Hill
Stockholm
Swift Current
Uranium City
Uren
Xena
Yellow Grass
Zip Lake
Yukon Territories Avalanche Peak
Baldy Mountain **
Big Salmon
Champagne
Destruction Bay
False Canyon
Flat Top
Good Neighbour Peak
Hungry Lake
Hunker Creek
Ice Chest Mountain **
Midnight Dome
Money Creek
Mount Cockfield
Nogold Creek
Rough Top
Snafu Creek
Snag
Starvation Mountain **
Tombstone Mountain **
Welcome Mountain

** This is the name of a mountain - NOT a town.

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

Famous Canadians
Famous Canadians A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Adams, Bryan
Musician - "Cuts Like a Knife", "Everything I Do, I Do It For You"
Aitken, William Maxwell (1910 - 1985)
Publisher, Politician - Newspaper magnate, 1st Baron of Beaverbrook
Allen, John F
Physicist - Co-Discoverer of Superfluidity
Altman, Sidney (1939 - )
Biochemist - 1989 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
Anderson, Pamela
Actress - "Baywatch", "Barb Wire"
Anka, Paul
Musician - "Diana", "My Way", "The Tonight Show Theme"
April Wine
Band - "You Could Have Been A Lady", "Bad Side Of The Moon"
Arcand, Denys
Director - "The Decline of the American Empire", "Jesus of Montreal", "Love and Human Remains"
Arden, Jann
Musician - "Living Under June"
Atwood, Margaret (1939 - )
Author - "The Handmaid's Tale", "Bodily Harm", "The Robber Bride"
Aykroyd, Dan
Comedian, Actor - "Saturday Night Live", "The Blues Brothers"
B
Bachman-Turner-Overdrive
Band - "Let It Ride", "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"
Bain, Conrad
Actor - "Diff'rent Strokes", "Maude"
Bairstow, Scott
Actor - "Lonesome Dove - The Series"
Banting, Frederick (1891 - 1941)
Physiologist - 1923 Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, Co-Discoverer of Insulin
Bantock, Nick
Author, Illustrator - "Griffin & Sabine"
Barenaked Ladies
Band - "If I Had $1,000,000", "Be My Yoko Ono"
Barker, William
Aviator - World War I Fighter Pilot, Took on 60 Enemy Planes at Once
Bateman, Robert
Painter -
Bellow, Saul (1915 - )
Author, Nobel laureate - "The Adventures of Augie March", "Humbolt's Gift"
Bennett, Nigel
Actor - "Forever Knight"
Berton, Pierre
Author - "Klondike", "The National Dream", "The Last Spike"
Bethune, Norman (1899 - 1939)
Doctor - Hero of the Chinese Revolution, Biographical Film "Bethune"
Bishop, Billy
Aviator - World War I Fighter Pilot, Shot Down 72 Enemy Planes
Black, Conrad (1944 - )
Publisher - Owns papers world wide, including London's Daily Telegraph
Blanchard, Rachel
Actress - "Clueless"
Bluteau, Lothaire
Actor - "Jesus of Montreal", "Black Robe"
Bochner, Lloyd
Actor - "Dynasty", "Naked Gun 2 1/2 - The Smell of Fear"
Bombardier, Joseph-Armand
Engineer, Businessman - Inventor of the Ski-doo
Bondar, Roberta
Astronaut -
Borduas, Paul-Emile
Painter, Author - "Refus Global"
Brockhouse, Bertram
Physiologist - 1994 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Bronfman Family
Business Dynasty - Owners of the Seagram Co and Universal Studios
Brown, Blair
Actress - Title role in "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd", "The Choirboys"
Brown, Roy
Aviator - World War I Fighter Pilot, Shot Down the Red Baron
Browning, Kurt
Champion Figure Skater -
Bujold, Genevieve
Actress - "Anne of a Thousand Days" (AAN), "Dead Ringers", "Coma"
Burr, Raymond (1917 - 1993)
Actor - "Perry Mason", "Ironside"
Burroughs, Jackie
Actress - "The Grey Fox", "John and the Missus", "Anne of Green Gables"
C
Cameron, James (1954 - )
Director - "True Lies", "The Terminator", "Aliens", "Titanic"
Cameron, Rod
Actor -
Campbell, Neve
Actress - "Party of Five"
Campeau, Robert
Financier - Former owner of Bloomingdales
Candy, John (1950 - 1994)
Comedian, Actor - "SCTV"
Cardinal, Tantoo
Actress - "Black Robe", "Dances with Wolves", "Legends of the Fall"
Cariou, Len
Actor - "A Little Night Music"
Carmichael, Frank
Painter -
Carr, Emily (1871 - 1945)
Painter -
Carrey, Jim (1962 - )
Comedian, Actor - "The Mask", "Ace Ventura - Pet Detective", "The Truman Show"
Carrier, Roch
Author - "La Guerre, Yes Sir!"
Carson, Jack
Actor - "Mildred Pierce", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Cattrall, Kim
Actress - "Star Trek VI"
Charlebois, Robert
Musician -
Chaykin, Maury
Actor - "Dances with Wolves", "Whale Music", "Buried on Sunday"
Chong, Thomas
Comedian, Actor - Half of Cheech and Chong
Clark, Susan
Actress - "Webster", "Amelia Earhart", "Babe"
Coates, Kim
Actor -
Cockburn, Bruce
Musician - "Wondering Where the Lions Are", "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"
Cohen, Leonard (1934 - )
Author, Musician - "Suzanne", "Beautiful Losers"
Colantoni, Enrico
Actor -
Cole, Holly
Singer - The Holly Cole Trio
Colicos, John
Actor - "Anne of a Thousand Days", "The Postman Always Rings Twice", played the first Klingon on "Star Trek", "Battlestar Galactica"
Colville, Alex
Painter -
Cooke, Jack Kent
Owner of the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Daily News -
Coupland, Douglas
Author - "Generation X", "Microserfs"
Crewson, Wendy
Actress - "Getting Married in Buffalo Jump", "The Doctor"
Cronenberg, David (1943 - )
Director, Writer - "The Fly", "Dead Ringers", "Naked Lunch", "Madam Butterfly"
Cronyn, Hume (1911 - )
Actor - "Shadow of a Doubt", "Sunrise at Campobello", "Cocoon"
Cunard, Sir Samuel (1787 - 1865)
Businessman - Founder of the Cunard Shipping Line
Czerny, Henry
Actor - "The Ice Storm", "When Night is Falling"

 

[Erik Magnus Lehnsherr]

D
Davies, Geraint Wyn
Actor - "Forever Knight"
Davies, Robertson (1913 - 1995)
Author - "Fifth Business", "Rebel Angels", "The Cunning Man"
Davis, William B
Actor - "X-Files"
De Carlo, Yvonne (1922 - )
Actress - "The Munsters", "Salome, Where She Danced"
Dewhurst, Colleen (1926 - 1991)
Actress - "Anne of Green Gables", "Murphy Brown", "Annie Hall"
Dion, Celine
Singer - "Beauty and the Beast"
Dionne Quintuplets (1934 - )
Quintuplets - First Quintuplets Known to Have Survived Infancy, Appeared in Three Films
Dmytryk, Edward
Director - "Crossfire" (AAN), "The Sniper", "The Caine Munity", "Murder, My Sweet"
Doohan, James
Actor - Scotty on "Star Trek"
Douglas, Shirley
Actress - "Lolita", "The Wars", "Wind at my Back"
Dressler, Marie (1869 - 1934)
Actress, Comedienne - "Tillie's Punctured Romance", "Anna Christie", "Min and Bill" (AA), "Dinner at Eight"
Dunning, George
Animator, Director - "Yellow Submarine"
Dupuis, Roy
Actor - "Jesus of Montreal"
Durbin, Deanna (1921 - )
Actress - "Three Smart Girls", "That Certain Age"
E
Eaton, Cyrus (1868 - 1953)
Industrialist - Co-Founder of the Pugwash Conferences
Egoyan, Atom
Director - "Exotica", "The Adjuster", "The Sweet Hereafter"
Elliott, David James
Actor - "Melrose Place", "JAG"
Evangelista, Linda
Super Model
F
Ferguson, Maynard
Jazz Trumpeter - "Gonna Fly Now", Theme from Rocky
Findley, Timothy
Author - "Not Wanted on the Voyage", "The Wars"
Fleming, Sanford
Engineer - Inventor of standard time zones
Foley, David
Comedian, Actor - "Kids in the Hall", "News Radio"
Follows, Megan
Actress - "Anne of Green Gables"
Ford, Glenn
Actor - "Gilda", "The Big Heat", "The Blackboard Jungle"
Fox, Michael J (1961 - )
Actor - "Back to the Future", "Family Ties"
Fraser, Brendan
Actor - "Gods and Monsters", "The Mummy"
Frewer, Matt
Actor - Played "Max Headroom", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "Star Trek - TNG"
Frid, Jonathan
Actor - "Dark Shadows"
G
Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908 - )
Economist, Author -
Garber, Victor
Actor - Mostly on Broadway, "Titanic"
Garneau, Marc
Astronaut -
George, Chief Dan
Actor - "Little Big Man" (AAN), "The Outlaw Josey Wales"
Giauque, William Francis (1895 - 1982)
Chemist - 1949 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
Gibson, William
Author - "Neuromancer", "Johnny Mnemonic"
Goodyear, Scott
Indy Car driver -
Gosling, James
Programmer - Inventor of Java
Gould, Glenn (1932 - 1982)
Classical Pianist - "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"
Goulet, Robert (1933 - )
Singer, Actor - "Naked Gun 2 1/2, The Smell of Fear"
Green, Lynda Mason
Actress -
Greene, Graham
Actor - "Dances with Wolves" (AAN)
Greene, Lorne
Actor - Played Ben Cartwright on "Bonanza", "Battlestar Galactica"
Greenwood, Bruce
Actor - "Exotica", "St. Elsewhere", "Nowhere Man"
Gretzky, Wayne (1961 - )
Hockey player - Highest scorer in history
Griffiths, Linda
Actress, Writer - "Maggie and Pierre", "Reno and the Doc"
Gross, Paul
Actor - "Due South", "Buried on Sunday"