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Primary F. Murray Abraham acted in STAR TREK INSURRECTION, and others.

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Peripheral VICTORIA ABRIL  acted in 1985's AFTER DARKNESS with --

Primary JOHN HURT, who acted as "Ollivander" in the HARRY POTTER series, and others.

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Primary SHARON ACKER acted in the STAR TREK episode "Mark of Gideon," and others.

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Primary FORREST J. ACKERMAN (middle) acted in DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and others.

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Primary SIVI ABERG in one of two roles on 1966 BATMAN:

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Primary TIM ABELL acts in SUPER SHARK (2011) and others.

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Primary IAN ABERCROMBIE acts in ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992) and others.

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Primary JOHN ABBOTT acted in STAR TREK episode "Errand of Mercy."

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Peripheral ALFRED ABEL (right) acted in DOCTOR MABUSE (1922) with--

Primary PAUL RICHTER in DIE NIEBELUNGEID: SEIGFRIED (1924).

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Primary BRUCE ABBOTT (center) acted in INTERZONE (1987)

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Peripheral BUD ABBOTT acted in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN--

With Primary GLENN STRANGE (the monster), who had four appearances on the 1949 LONE RANGER TV show, most notably the owlhoot Butch Cavendish.

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Peripheral AALIYAH acted in QUEEN OF THE DAMNED--

with  primary BRUCE SPENCE, who acted in LEGEND OF THE SEEKER.

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Primary WILLIE AAMES voiced "Hank the Ranger" in TV's DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.

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Peripheral CAROLINE AARON  acted in EDWARD SCISSORHANDS--

with primary JOHNNY DEPP, who played Tonto in 2013's LONE RANGER.

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In my continuing quest to see if I can get someone to make even one comment on this blog, I'm introducing a game devoted to tracing (1) actors from films and TV with metaphenomenal content to (2) actors in films and TV that include superhero-like figures.

Here's some stuff I printed on a forum outlining the game:

The idea here is to assert that one can connect any American actor (with a fair number of credits, obviously), even if he/she has never been in anything remotely like a superhero film or TV show, to a costar who has been in same.
I won't get into a long definition of the very malleable term "superhero" except to say that *I* think it can include not only costumed characters but also (1) superspies like James Bond and Man from Uncle, (2) animal-skinned jungle heroes like Tarzan and Sheena, (3) space-opera heroes like Flash Gordon, Luke Skywalker, and Captain Kirk, (4) post-apocalyptic heroes (Mad Max), (5) supervillains a la Fu Manchu, (6) "fantasy-adventurers", i.e., ordinary guys who encounter lots of weird menaces, a la Dick Tracy, Indiana Jones and (sometimes) Sherlock Holmes, and (7) spoofs of all the above. 

Later, I modified the game to be just about actors with metaphenomenal credits (and not just Americans):

A new wrinkle to this game struck me: instead of being able to draw matches between actors from any type of film or TV show, the player would be limited to drawing only from what I choose to call "metaphenomenal" film and TV-- a term which takes in a lot of stuff that isn't exactly "horror, fantasy, or science fiction"-- say, HAMLET and FAUST.
Thus, if you decide from the start that nothing in Kate Hepburn's oeuvre conforms to the metaphenomenal tag, then she couldn't be matched to anyone. I've never seen her 1971 TROJAN WOMEN, which might *barely* squeak in, depending on what the film has Cassandra do, or not do-- but that seems to be the only likely exception.
If nothing else, it narrows the player's choices, and helps you remember important things, like which HELLRAISER film Craig Sheffer appeared in.

Actors-- whose names I'll take alphabetically, from one of my reference-books-- will either be PRIMARIES, meaning that they're in a "quasi-superhero" work of some sort, or PERIPHERALS, meaning that they connect to someone somewhere in a superhero work. I'll probably also highlight any work that I've reviewed.


First up, going alphabetically:

ANGELA AAMES (in foreground), from THE LOST EMPIRE (1984), is a PRIMARY.