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Puzzle #796: Mark Wahlberg → Bryan Cranston

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

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On Tuesday, October 20, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Mark Wahlberg and Bryan Cranston. The two have never been credited in the same movie, so there's no one-move answer. But 35 actors have worked with both of them in their best-known films, so it can be done in just 2 moves.

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The shortest solution

Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
  1. Mark Wahlberg as Dignam in The Departed (2006), which also stars Matt Damon as Colin.
  2. Matt Damon as Private Ryan in Saving Private Ryan (1998), alongside Bryan Cranston as War Department Colonel.

The full chain: Mark Wahlberg → The Departed (2006) → Matt Damon → Saving Private Ryan (1998) → Bryan Cranston.

Other ways to solve it

Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
  • Mark Wahlberg → Ted (2012) → Giovanni Ribisi → Saving Private Ryan (1998) → Bryan Cranston
  • Mark Wahlberg → Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) → Titus Welliver → Argo (2012) → Bryan Cranston
  • Mark Wahlberg → Planet of the Apes (2001) → Paul Giamatti → Saving Private Ryan (1998) → Bryan Cranston

About Mark Wahlberg

Born
June 5, 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Film career
1994–2026
Widely seen films
58 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

About Bryan Cranston

Born
March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Film career
1987–2025
Widely seen films
37 (films with a sizeable audience on TMDB)

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain: