In movie buff circles, there’s an ongoing trivia question that is getting close to an answer: “Who is the first actor to appear in three trilogies?”

There were plenty of near misses. Christopher Lee is in seven Hammer Dracula films, and three Lord of the Rings films (the Extended Cuts, anyway) but only two of three Star Wars prequels. Emilio Estevez made three Mighty Ducks movies, but the Young Guns and Stakeout franchises stalled at two. And so on.

Don’t want to spoil this. If you are interested in such minutia, read the article (I found it fascinating). Then try your hand at this question:

Who is the only actor to star (not necessarily appear) in 3 separate billion dollar franchises? Feel free to tweet me (@davemark) if you think you have it.