Which Alfred Hitchcock associate are you most closely connected to?

Question

Halloween makes us think of all things creepy and thrilling, including classic Alfred Hitchcock movies, so we're featuring him in the Connection Finder this week, alongside those who were part of his many movies.

Here are other Hitchcock associates to check your connection to: 

• Roscoe Lee Browne, Topaz
• Joan Fontaine, Suspicion and Rebecca
• Cary Grant, North by Northwest
• Edith Head, designer 
• Tippi Hedren, The Birds
• Bernard Herman, composer
• Janet Leigh, Psycho
• Mildred Natwick, The Trouble with Harry
• Anthony Perkins, Psycho
• Jimmy Stewart, Vertigo, Rear Mirror

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Answer 1

14 degrees from Anthony Perkins (8th cousins, 2x removed)
18 degrees from Mildred Natwick (15th cousins, 3x removed)
18 degrees from Jimmy Stewart (14th cousins, 2x removed)
19 degrees from Cary Grant
19 degrees from Edith Head
20 degrees from Joan Fontaine (13th cousins, 5x removed)
20 degrees from Tippi Hedren
20 degrees from Bernard Herrmann
20 degrees from Janet Leigh (28th cousins, 3x removed)
25 degrees from Roscoe Browne
33 degrees from Alfred Hitchcock

Answer 2

Ancestors and Cousins:

15 degrees - Anthony Perksins (9th cousins, 2x) - MRCA - George Watson
18 degrees - Jimmy Stewart (7th cousins, 3x) - MRCA - Anne (Pearson) Watson
18 degrees - Skye Sonczalla (15th cousins, 3x) - MRCA - Ralph Bowes
18 degrees - Mildred Natwick (16th cousins, 2x) - MRCA - John Danvers MP
21 degrees - Joan Fontaine (13th cousins, 4x) - MRCA - John Talbot KB KG
26 degrees - Janet Leigh (28th cousins, 2x) - MRCA - Knud (Svendsson) den Helige

Connections:

20 degrees - Cary Grant
20 degrees - Edith Head
21 degrees - Tippi Hedren
21 degrees - Bernard Herman
33 degrees - Alfred Hitchcock
45 degrees - Roscoe Lee Brown

Answer 3

15 degrees from Cary Grant. 15th cousin 2 times removed of ex-wife Betsy (Drake) Grant. MRCA Edward Neville (abt 1412 - 1476).

17 degrees from Mildred Natwick. 15th cousin 3 times removed. MRCA Mathew ap Ieuan (abt 1368 - aft 1419).

18 degrees from Bernard Herrman.

19 degrees from Edith Head.

19 degrees from Tippi Hedren. 15th cousin 2 times removed, through husband, of actress daughter, Melanie Griffith. MRCA Thomas ap Gruffudd (abt -1425 - abt 1474).

19 degrees from Anthony Perkins. 14th cousin 1 time removed. MRCA  Anne (Lovingcott) Hyde (1465 - 1523).

19 degrees from Jimmy Stewart. 16th cousin 3 times removed. MRCA John (Plantagenet) of Gaunt (abt 1340 - 1399).

20 degrees from Joan Fontaine. 11th cousin 6 times removed. MRCA Robert Corbet (1477 -1513).

23 degrees from Janet Leigh. 26th cousin 5 times removed. MRCA Gertrude (Billung) von Sachsen (abt 1030 - 1113).

33 degrees from Alfred Hitchcock.

45 degrees from Roscoe Browne.

Answer 4

22 degrees from Joan Fontaine 

Answer 5

I'm 33 degrees from Alfred Hitchcock, 45 degrees from Roscoe Browne, 23 degrees from Joan Fontaine, 20 degrees from Cary Grant, 19 degrees from Edith Head, 23 degrees from Tippi Hedren, 22 degrees from Bernard Herrmann, 27 degrees from Janet Leigh, 17 degrees from Mildred Natwick, 16 degrees from Anthony Perkins, 20 degrees from Jimmy Stewart.  Anthony Perkins was an eighth cousin. 

Answer 6

My closest connection is 19 degrees from Joan Fontaine.

My spouse is 19 degrees and also an 8th cousin once removed from Virginia Cherrill Martini, the wife of Cary Grant.

I am 20th cousin and 20 degrees from Virginia Cherrill Martini, wife of Cary Grant - which makes me 21 degrees from Cary Grant.

All my other connections are 20 degrees or higher.

Answer 7

17 degrees from Cary Grant (but no relationship), followed by Joan Fontaine, Anthony Perkins (8th cousins, once removed) and Jimmy Stewart at 18 degrees.

Answer 8

17 degrees from Tippi Hedren.  Mildred Natwick and  Anthony Perkins are 9th cousins, twice and once removed.

Answer 9

I am most closely connected to Mildred Natwick at 15 degrees of separation.

• 15 degrees from Mildred Natwick • 14C3R
• 20 degrees from Anthony Perkins • 17C
• 21 degrees from Cary Grant
• 21 degrees from Jimmy Stewart •15C5R
• 22 degrees from Edith Head
• 22 degrees from Tippi Hedren
• 22 degrees from Bernard Herrmann
• 23 degrees from Joan Fontaine • 13C5R
• 24 degrees from Janet Leigh • 29C
• 28 degrees from Roscoe Browne
• 33 degrees from Alfred Hitchcock

Answer 10

I am most closely connected to James Stewart at 21 degrees.

Answer 11

I am 32 degrees from Alfred Hitchcock, 46 degrees from Roscoe Browne, 20 degrees from Joan Fontaine 13thC3xr, 18 degrees from Cary Grant, 19 degrees from Edith Head, 19 degrees from Tippi Hedren, 20 degrees from Bernard Herrmann, 27 degrees from Janet Leigh 28C3xr, 19 degrees from Mildred Natwick 17th C, 17 degrees from Anthony Perkins 8thC1xr, 17 degrees from Jimmy Stewart 17C3xr 

Answer 12

7 degrees from Mildred Natwick, who is my 2nd cousin, twice removed.  Milly was my grandmother's second cousin and near her in age; she used to come to visit my grandmother, her mother (Milly's cousin, once removed), and her grandmother (Milly's grand aunt, and younger sister of Milly's maternal grandfather) on the farm in Wisconsin when both Milly and my grandmother were girls.    

More cousins from this group:

Jimmy Stewart--7th cousins, once removed

Anthony Perkins--9th cousins, once removed

Joan Fontaine--11th cousins, 3 times removed

Janet Leigh--28th cousins, 3 times removed

Comments

Adding a comment to say that my partner selected my answer as "the best" but for some reason it is showing as my name rather than his, perhaps because we share an internet connection.  Earlier, it showed that Shonda Feather selected it as best, but that designation then dropped, I'm not sure why.  (Still rather new to "best answers.")

Also, hoping to add some photos of Milly at the farm, visiting her Dawes and Barker relatives, including my grandmother.

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I'm choosing it again.

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That is weird! I did choose it as the best answer. I don't know who or what removed the star I gave you.  But I'm glad Sean chose to give it back to you!

Answer 13

19 degrees from Mildred Natwick (9th cousin, twice removed) and 19 degrees from Anthony Perkins (15th cousin, 4 times removed)

More cousins:

Jimmy Stewart--13th cousin, twice removed

Joan Fontaine--14th cousin, 6 times removed

Janet Leigh--29th cousin, twice removed

Answer 14

Anthony Perkins is just 12 steps -- a 5th cousin once removed. Who knew? We share "Hudson Valley Dutch" ancestry (New Netherland descendants).

Answer 15

My connections to most of these Hitchcock associates are remote.  The only relatively close kinship is Anthony Perkins at 8th cousins twice removed; we have quite a few other shared ancestors further back.

Answer 16

Antghony Perkins 8c1r

Answer 17

Ancestors and Cousins:

17 degrees - Anthony Perkins (16th cousins, 1x) - MRCA - Margaret (Hay) Hay Countess of Angus (abt.1404-aft.1484)

18 degrees - Mildred Natwick (19th cousins, 1x) - MRCA - Richard (FitzAlan) de Arundel (abt.1314-1376).

19 degrees - Jimmy Stewart (11th cousins) - MRCA - Marion (Cuninghame) Cunninghame (bef.1521-aft.1605)

20 degrees - Joan Fontaine (10th cousins, 4x) - MRCA - William Duke (abt.1525-abt.1570).

22 degrees - Janet Leigh (very distant cousins) - MRCA - Gertrude (Billung) von Sachsen (abt.1030-1113).

Connections:

20 degrees - Cary Grant

21 degrees - Tippi Hedren

21 degrees - Bernard Herman

22 degrees - Edith Head

33 degrees - Alfred Hitchcock
46 degrees - Roscoe Lee Brown

Answer 18

• Alfred Hitchcock - 35 degrees
• Roscoe Lee Browne - 27 degrees
• Joan Fontaine - 16th cousins three times removed, 22 degrees
• Cary Grant - 20 degrees
• Edith Head - 21 degrees
• Tippi Hedren - 22 degrees
• Bernard Herman - 21 degrees
• Janet Leigh - "very distant cousins", 22 degrees
• Mildred Natwick - 16th cousins three times removed, 16 degrees
• Anthony Perkins - 9th cousins three times removed, 19 degrees
• Jimmy Stewart - 21st cousins four times removed, 19 degrees

Here's a little creaky story:
While working on this answer, especially when I was almost done, I kept hearing an annoyingly loud creaking.
I lifted my head up and saw I had fallen half-asleep.
The creaking noise? It was my glasses on the table, creaking in protest with each breath. Wanting to finish this, but not trusting myself, I took them off to type this. Now I can creak off to bed.

Answer 19

My closest connection is with the man himself! Its not genetic, but my great-grandmother Christel Dunn was Hitch's personal chef for about 30 years.

Answer 20

• 18 Degrees to Archibald Alexander (Leach) Grant
• 18 Degrees to Mildred Natwick (9th Cousin two times removed) -  MRCA Alice (Gibbes) Smith (1595 - 1681)
• 18 Degrees to James Maitland Stewart (18th Cousin two times removed) - MRCA Alice (Warenne) de Arundel (abt. 1287 - bef. 1338)
• 19 Degrees to Anthony Perkins (ninth Cousin) - MRCA Frances (Unknown) Briggs (abt. 1647 - abt. 1697)
• 19 Degrees to Edith Claire (Posener) Head
• 21 Degrees to Tippi Hedren
• 21 Degrees to Maximillian (Herman) Herrmann
• 22 Degrees to Jeanette Helen (Morrison) Leigh (28th Cousin 3 times removed) - MRCA Gertrude (Billung) von Sachsen (abt. 1030 - 1113)
• 22 Degrees to Joan de Beauvoir (de Havilland) Fontaine (15th Cousin 3 times removed - MRCA is Richard Talbot (abt. 1361 - 1396)
• 28 Degrees to Roscoe Lee Browne
• 31 Degrees to Alfred Joseph Hitchcock