Worst Actor Names (1 Viewer)

[chung_sotheby]

Stephen Dorff
Seems like he's named after the golfing little person

Jake Gyllenhaal
Didn't even know where to start in terms of pronunciation. Good actor, though

Sandra Bullock
Last name means a castrated bull.

Andy Dick
Who changes their last name to "Dick?"

Julia Roberts
Just because I can't stand her.

 

[WillG]

Count me in as someone who thinks Vind Diesel is stupid. How vain do you have to be to make you name "Diesel"? Why don't I just change my name to Will Awesome

 

[streeter]

Albert Brooks - real name Albert Einstein

Patrick Kilpatrick

 

[DeanR]

Fanny Flagg, Cher, Vanilla Ice, Rip Torn, Wink Martindale, and Soupy Sales. A long time ago I worked with somebody named Bill Greathead. He was a big guy so no one gave him a hard time .

 

[Rob P S]

As long as he doesn't change his first name to Harry or marry someone named Anita.

 

[Yee-Ming]

 

[David Galindo]

Dude...that is a seriously sweet name.

 

[ZacharyTait]

Patrick Fugit's last name is pronounced Few-get.

Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal's last name is pronounced Gill-in-hall.

Kudos to Cees Alon for making me laugh my head off with that comment about a dyke.

Worst name for me is Freddie Prinze Jr. and not just because he sucks. His last name to me always sounded kind of like Priss.

 

[Yee-Ming]

I admit to having done it myself, but I've always thought taking the piss out of someone's surname is in slightly bad taste. That's the name he/she was born with, strange and unusual ones are probably "ethnic" (i.e. non-Anglo) and are perfectly ordinary names in the home country.

Of course, this applies only to real names, if an artiste adopts a stupid stage name he/she deserves all the heckling coming their way...

 

[Kevin Porter]

Buck Naked

 

[John Watson]

Is that Bif Naked's brother?

 

[Cees Alons]

And the other reason is: the person already knows that one (yawn) and even a few that are more funny by far.


Cees

 

[Sami Kallio]

Snoop Doggy Doo. Anyone remember Grand Master Bee?

 

[Jason Walstrom]

Tony Anthony-Treasure of the four crowns.

CCH pounder.

 

[Kevin Porter]

I always wondered what the C and the C and the H stood for ever since she did that excellent guest spot in The West Wing's Season 1 episode Celestial Navigation.

 

[Cees Alons]

Some actors change their name to hide a famous actor-father or actress-mother (some do it the other way around).

I think that the decisions to change one's name into a more favourable one often were made in a very early stage of the person's career, and some may get "trapped": they get more successful and suddenly are stuck with a name that's now less desirable but cannot be changed anymore.


Cees

 

[Yee-Ming]

Or uncle: Nicolas Coppola became Nicolas Cage.

In a reverse, Emilio Estevez reverted to the real family name that dad Martin Sheen changed. Charlie, on the other hand, didn't bother.

IIRC Natalie Portman uses either her mother's or grandmother's surname to preserve privacy (either her own or her family's); perhaps she attended Harvard under her real name?

 

[Qui-Gon John]

What about Chon Wang?

"That's a terrible name for a cowboy."

 

[LanieParker]

I love names...all kinds of names. The 'worst' ones are really the best ones.

Mare Winningham

Busy Phillips

Dick York (formerly Richard York)

Alan Alda (formerly Alphonse De Abruzzo)

Fatty Arbuckle

Zsa Zsa Gabor ( formerly Sari Gabor)

ZaSu Pitts

Giovanni Ribisi

Kiki Dee (formerly pauline matthews)

 

[Brian Thibodeau]

In the 80's, Chow Yun-fat was briefly billed (in English at least) as DONALD Chow Yun-fat. I believe the film was SEVENTH CURSE, and I'm not sure if there were others. Thankfully, by the time he came over here, there was little need to re-attach it to his already famous moniker. Not sure if he still uses Donald for anything else.