Connection Clues: Which Film Detective Are You Most Closely Connected To?

Question

This week's Example Profile of the Week is Peter Falk, often remembered as TV detective Colombo, born on September 16, 1927. Featured alongside him are others who have played film and TV sleuths:

• Jack Lord
• Telly Savalas
• Raymond Burr
• John Thaw
• Margaret Rutherford
• Jean Poiret
• Basil Rathbone
• Petrus Römer

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 20,390,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can also check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them?

Let us know below!

P.S. You can help choose and improve profiles for next week's feature on master composers.

Answer 1

28 degrees from Peter Falk

26 degrees from John Ryan

25 degrees from Aristotelis Savalas

16 degrees from Raymond Burr

31 degrees from John Thaw

26 degrees from Margaret Rutherford

30 degrees from Jean Poiret

23 degrees from Basil Rathbone  15th cousins

35 degrees from Piet Römer

21 degrees from Terri Swift

Answer 2

22 degrees - Peter Falk, 27 degrees - John Ryan, 22 degrees Aristotelis Savalas, 22 degrees - Raymond Burr, 30 degrees - John Thaw, 26 degrees - Margaret Rutherford, 28 degrees - Jean Poiret, 25 degrees - Basil Rathbone, 34 degrees- Piet Romer.

Basil Rathbone is, according to the Family Finder, my 17th cousin, twice removed. I connect with him by way of my Wade family lineage through a (MRCA) Hugh de Venables sometime in the middle ages.

Answer 3

Azure is 25 degrees from Peter Falk, 26 degrees from John Ryan, 24 degrees from Aristotelis Savalas, 21 degrees from Raymond Burr, 28 degrees from John Thaw, 22 degrees from Margaret Rutherford, 28 degrees from Jean Poiret, 24 degrees from Basil Rathbone, 32 degrees from Piet Römer 

Basil Rathbone and Azure are 16th cousins three times removed
Raymond Burr and Azure are 15th cousins once removed

 

Answer 4

Closest is Raymond Burr at 22 degrees, followed by Poiret at 24 - and my path to Poiret is "all French" which tells me it probably could not be much shorter.

Answer 5

Basil Rathbone is my 19th cousin once removed.

Answer 6

I am23 from Raymond Burr

Answer 7

16th cousin once removed. Via Randle Mainwaring (1367-1457). https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mainwaring-11

I also try to take the time to at least make some minor improvements while I am there.

Marty

Comments

We love it when people use the connections to improve those along their path! Thanks, Marty.

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I went with some low hanging fruit. Inline profile links, ref tags for sources mentioned in body, using wiki formatting for children list, and make the source list consistently formatted. Very PIPish kind of stuff.