famous/infamous relatives, straw-grasping welcome!

My wife's grandfather Harry VanDeNorth, which we have pictures of with Tucker of the Famous Tucker automobile, and was featured in the Movie TUCKER was a mechanic for Tucker in the beginning of the production of the car. We have the photos of the unveiling of it and he is standing in front of the car with Tucker and a few of the others who where trying to get the car going for the debut of the car. (this scene is also in the movie. TUCKER...A MAN AND HIS DREAM.....STARRING JEFF BRIDGES.

That's all I have

Hey styrene, ask your father-in-law if he remembers Ensign Stanley Caplan.  As senior officer on board, he took command of the Aylwin during the Pearl Harbor attack.  He passed away a few years ago.

I was a police lieutenant when one of my subordinates arrested Hedy Lamarr for shoplifting.  She was kind enough to give me an autograph while being booked.  She died shortly after. 

In 1966 I appeared in a little theater production of Stalag 17.  One of the prisoners was played by Charles Napier.

 

Last, and probably least, a cousin of Caril Ann Fugate worked on my patrol platoon.

Now that is grasping at straws!

I met, and a friend of mine dated, Pamela Anderson when she was 16.

I've also met Diana Krall, and I had dinner with John Wayne AND Glenn Ford at the same time!

On my mother's side, I'm related to John Adams & John Quincy Adams My father's side, well, there is a Naval Aviator LCDR Chuck Schoonover who was killed 16 JAN 66 in  RA-5C 149312 [of RVAH-9] In my eyes he was/is a hero
My grandmother had dated Pappy Boyington the infamous Back sheep hisself... does this count???

My only claim to fame is being related to General John Burleson. He was instrumental in the settling of Texas. His wifes bible is in the museum at the Alamo. His two sons were part of the party that captured General Santa Ana (there's a picture of Santa Ana after his capture that shows him tied up and being guarded by two men, those two men are Johns sons). One of his grandsons was Post Master General of the US in the early part of the 1900s, about 1909 or there abouts. The city of Burleson, Tx is named after John. I have also got an ancestor who served with an artillery brigade from Georgia during the civil war. My grandfather was best friends with several famous people and I have gotten to meet several of them. The two that really stick out were Red Adair and Oral Roberts. For those of you who don't know who Red Adair is, he's the man who puts out oil well fires and was immortalized in a John Wayne movie that the name of eludes me at the moment.When my grandfather passed away in 1982, his funeral was attended by three former mayors of Sacramento Ca., One former president of the US (Gerald Ford). There were nearly 1500 people at his funeral. My grandfathers claim to fame? Besides being a Pentecostal Holiness Church preacher, and building the first PHC churches in California, was his being an architect and contactor. Most of the houses in Sacramento and the surrounding area (it was estimated in 1983 at 45%) were built by him and his company, A.M. Harris and Son.

IIRC the movie was Hellfighters. Good movie.
So, most of the houses north of me were built by your grandfather? WOW!!

Let's see...

Before my Mom divorced her 2nd/3rd husband (she maried him twice)  I was a sixth cousin, or something similarly ridiculous to Michael Gross of Family Ties and Tremors fame.

Likewise, his family was somehow family friends with Greg Boyington.

Man, the influence I could wield.

I had a great-great-something-or-another named Thomas Jefferson Wells, who supposedly was a officer/deputy of Judge Parkers court in Arkansas.  He later became a Texas Ranger and died down on the Red River somewhere around 1897.  He had a brother that was moving from Missouri down to South East Texas with a herd of mules and horses and was stopped in Arkansas.  Since he had raised them, he didn't have a bill of sale, and was hanged as a horse thief.

Back in the twenties or thirties, one relative was in the garden with his wife tending it, and then for apparently no reason, buried an axe in her head.  He then drank muriatic(?) acid and died.

Got law enforcement and axe murderers in my family.

Henry

LoL Henry... My Great great grandfather (dad's mom's side) was a Judge in Goldfield,NV in the 40s His brothers & cousins were all Bootlegers in Santa Barbara,Calif at the time
 Now if I really break out the amily history.... my 13 or 14th great grandfather was a fierce Indian fighter who died a horrible death at the hands of the Indians... slit his belly & tied is intestines to a tree & made him walk around it until he died.
My G.f. is a retired Border Patrol Agent  & related to General Robert E. Lee

WOW this is an old thread  lol

 

My cousin played the female lead, opposite Kurt Russel, in Disney's 1969, " The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes."

Ok, check this link out on a relative of mine
http://www.gloriajeanchildstar.com/