Six Degrees of Chaucer
We connect authors, celebrities, actors, etc. to the late great Geoffrey Chaucer. Because we can. And we are bored English majors.
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The Ramones starred in the movie Rock n Roll High School. Clint Howard was Eaglebauer in Rock n Roll High School, and he was the voice of the elephant in the Jungle Book. Phil Harris was the voice of Baloo in the Jungle Book and narrated Rock-A-Doodle, an animated movie based on the children’s book Chanticleer and the Fox. Barbara Cooney wrote the book based on the Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Nun’s Priest’s Tale.
Degrees: 6
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Alfred Hitchcock directed the T.V. Series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” in which Torin Thatcher acted. Torin Thatcher was also in the movie “The Deadly Riddle” which based upon Wife of Bath’s Tale from the Canterbury Tales, which was written by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Degrees: 4
