Star Wars

Almost everyone has a fan base somewhere. Whether it’s the 10 people that follow you on Twitter, or 10,000 people in matching costumes at a convention, it doesn’t take much to have a cult following. But even the most devoted cult following in the most obsessive of genres doesn’t mean real fame. So, yes, everybody in the whole world has seen Star Wars, but that doesn’t make every actor in the movie famous. Deal with it, geeks.

Harrison Ford: Famous

Harrison Ford was smart enough to turn his role as Han Solo in Star Wars into years of playing Han Solo in films that are not Star Wars. Han Solo tells hijackers to get the hell off his plane. Han Solo is wrongly accused of killing his wife. Han Solo is a bad boy archeologist who fights Nazis. Han Solo hides in Amish country from PCP dealers who are trying to kill him. But my personal favorite is when Han Solo takes it down a notch and falls in love with the butler’s beautiful daughter. What, was I the only person who watched the 1995 remake of Sabrina obsessively as a child?

James Earl Jones: Famous

James Earl Jones has possibly the most distinctive voice in the history of film. Not only was he the voice of Darth Vadar, the most recognizable character from Star Wars, he was in Roots and Dr. Strangelove. For God’s sake, the man was Mufasa. Enough said.

Carrie Fisher: Kinda Famous

A candid autobiographical one woman show, a semi-autobiographical film starring Meryl Streep, that inescapable metal bikini, and a willingness to say “Help me, (Scene Partner), you’re my only hope” on any and every primetime television show have kept Carrie Fisher in the limelight. Well, the lemon light at least. Although, I do feel bad for her - as she gets older she looks less and less like Debbie Reynolds and more and more like Eddie Fisher.

Warwick Davis: Kinda Famous

Thank God for Harry Potter: Davis’ turn as Professor Flitwick is what saves him. Sure, he was Willow, and he is probably the only little person actor most people can name, but the Harry Potter franchise is a force to be reckoned with.

Alec Guinness: Kinda Famous, Dead

Between Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, and Bridge on the River Kwai, Sir Alec Guinness is still kinda famous. People know him for Star Wars, people know him for his movies that were actually good, and I’m sure a lot of people think he was in Gandhi and the Lord of the Rings movies, too.

Mark Hamill: Not Famous

If Mark Hamill still looked like Luke Skywalker, he would probably earn a Kinda Famous. However, as it stands, weird, old, and beardy Mark Hamill is not famous.

Billie Dee Williams: Not Famous

Billie Dee Williams is not famous, but the above Colt 45 ad is. “It Works Every Time”.