<p>Carmine, Francis Ford, and Sofia Coppola. Nicolas Cage is Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew. Talia Shire is his sister.</p>
<p>The Barrymore family: Maurice, his children John, Lionel and Ethel, John’s granddaughter Drew</p>
<p>George Foreman and his sons George, George, George, George, George, and his daughter Georgette. Okay, so some of them are not famous for their talent, but it’s my favorite celebrity family tree.</p>
<p>Cliff Arquette (grandfather) Lewis Arquette (father) Rosanna and Patricia Arquette (Cliff’s granddaughters)</p>
<p>Ernest, Margeaux, and Mariel Hemingway (different crafts again)</p>
<p>John Raitt and Bonnie Raitt</p>
<p>Mary Martin and Larry Hagman</p>
<p>Shirley Jones is David Cassidy’s stepmother</p>
<p>Conrad Hilton and Paris Hilton :p</p>
<p>Pfffttt…</p>
<p>jmmom, go wash your mouth out with soap :D</p>
<p>Woody and Arlo Gutherie</p>
<p>Del, Rob, and Ronnie McCoury</p>
<p>Doc and Merle Watson</p>
<p>Eddie and Gerald Levert</p>
<p>Cheech and Chong?</p>
<p>OK, not father and son, but that is the direction this thread is going in.</p>
<p>How bout those Mannings, huh? </p>
<p>Barry Bonds… who was his dad? </p>
<p>Have you heard James Taylor’s son sing? Sounds just like him! How bout Billy Joel and his daughter. Just give them a few more years.</p>
<p>Maybe not top of all time, but there’s Ellis and Branford Marsalis. And the Neville Brothers are part of a multi-generational musical family.</p>
<p>Oh, yes. The Marsalis family, including Wynton as well. Definitely. Good one, conyat.</p>
<p>Kingsley Amis & Martin Amis</p>
<p>Nobody mentioned Edgar & Candice Bergen,</p>
<p>nor Frank, Dweezil, & Moon Zappa</p>
<p>nor Steve & Liv Tyler</p>
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<p>Arlo and Sara Guthrie</p>
<p>Not as well know because they’re classical musicians, but Rudolf and Peter Serkin qualify in the “top perfomers” deparment.</p>
<p>Alan Hale Jr and Sr, especially if you add the requirement that they are to be indistinguisable.</p>
<p>Alexandre Dumas, pere et fils</p>
<p>Ingrid Bergman and Isabella Rossellini</p>
<p>Bruce Dern and Laura Dern</p>
<p>Blythe Danner and Gwynneth Paltrow</p>
<p>Calvin Hill and Grant Hill</p>
<p>John Raitt (Broadway star of 40s-60s) and Bonnie Raitt</p>
<p>Boris Thomashevsky (greatest star of NY Yiddish musical theater) and grandson Michael Tilson Thomas</p>
<p>Olu Dara (jazz trumpeter) and Nas</p>
<p>Charlie Haden (jazz bassist) and Petra Haden (rock violinist, a capella singer, sometime Decemberist)</p>
<p>Bluesman Johnny Copeland and Shemekia Copeland</p>
<p>Hollywood composer-siblings Alfred, Emil, and Lionel Newman, and Emil’s son Randy Newman</p>
<p>Ron Howard and Bryce Howard</p>
<p>Anita Desai and recent Man Booker winner Kiran Desai</p>
<p>Texas folkie-producer Lloyd Maines and Dixie Chick Natalie Maines</p>
<p>All The Judds, mom Naomi and daughter Wynnona, and other daughter Ashley</p>
<p>Also - extending some of the earlier lines:</p>
<p>Michael Douglas’ children (and Kirk’s grandchildren) Ileana Douglas and Kirk Cameron</p>
<p>Arlo Guthrie’s daughter Sara Lee Guthrie and son-in-law Johnny Irion, also excellent folk musicians</p>
<p>Ooops, and Tim and Jeff Buckley (who really sounded eerily alike)</p>
<p>And maybe Rosemary Clooney and nephew George Clooney should count.</p>
<p>A-a-and playwright Israel Horowitz and son Adam “Ad-Rock” Horowitz of The Beastie Boys</p>
<p>If we are going to go so far afield, I’ll go with the Curies:
Pierre and Marie Curie,
Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot.</p>
<p>And, given that this is CC, we really should mention:</p>
<p>Economists Robert and Anita Summers, their respective (and slightly more famous) siblings Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, and their son/nephew Larry Summers.</p>
<p>How about William F and Christopher Buckley</p>