Sonam Lhamo and Neten Chokling appeared in Travellers and Magicians. Neten Chokling and Jamyang Lodro appeared in The Cup. Jamyang Lodro and Lhakpa Tsamchoe appeared in Milarepa. Lhakpa Tsamchoe and Brad Pitt appeared in Seven Years in Tibet. Brad Pitt and Kevin Bacon appeared in Sleepers.
Matsunosuke Onoe's Bacon number is 5 Matsunosuke Onoe and Enichiro Jitsukawa appeared in Jiraiya the Hero. Enichiro Jitsukawa and Denjirô Ôkôchi appeared in Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue. Denjirô Ôkôchi and So Yamamura appeared in Tsukigata Hanpeita: Hana no maki; Arashi no maki. So Yamamura and Clint Howard appeared in Gung Ho. Clint Howard and Kevin Bacon appeared in Apollo 13.
I've got tons of non-results. Mostly British 90s footballers who have cameos in films, also Georges Melies. Is a 6 even possible?
ok, fine, i'll bite: Donald Gibb's Bacon number is 2 Donald Gibb and Stephen Furst appeared in Magic Kid 2. Stephen Furst and Kevin Bacon appeared in National Lampoon's Animal House.
I finally managed to get a 4 with Gustav Fröhlich, who was also in Metropolis, but I'm told there's at least one actor with a bacon number of 8. No idea who, but has to be someone incredibly obscure...
William Rufus Shafter and Joseph Wheeler appeared in Surrender of General Toral. Joseph Wheeler and Russell A. Alger appeared in General Wheeler and Secretary of War Alger at Camp Wikoff. Russell A. Alger and William McKinley appeared in President McKinley Inauguration Footage. William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt appeared in President McKinley Inauguration. Theodore Roosevelt and Walter McGrail appeared in Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation. Walter McGrail and Patty McCormack appeared in Here Comes the Groom. Patty McCormack and Kevin Bacon appeared in Frost/Nixon.
The Bacon number is easily "beatable" in that Google doesn't even try. I tried with a bunch of Norwegian actors (like Otto Jespersen, who appeared in "Trollhunter", which DID get a US release), and it just didn't set off the Bacon number code.
Mind you, for those of you outside of the US: Be sure to do the Bacon search on Google.COM. Norwegian Google doesn't have the code right now, for instance.