  This paper provides the technical details of an article originally published
in The Conversation in February 2020. The purpose is to use centrality measures
to analyse the social network of movie stars and thereby identify the most
"important" actors in the movie business. The analysis is presented in a
step-by-step, tutorial-like fashion and makes use of the Python programming
language together with the NetworkX library. It reveals that the most central
actors in the network are those with lengthy acting careers, such as
Christopher Lee, Nassar, Sukumari, Michael Caine, Om Puri, Jackie Chan, and
Robert De Niro. We also present similar results for the movie releases of each
decade. These indicate that the most central actors since the turn of the
millennium include people like Angelina Jolie, Brahmanandam, Samuel L. Jackson,
Nassar, and Ben Kingsley.
