Five - or Two - Steps To Rommel

Okay, Dan just figured this out:

1.  Our dental hygienist in Bremerton, Micky Strong.

2.  His dad, the actor, Alexander Strong, who appeared in Destination Gobi.

3.  Director Henry Hatheway, who directed him in it. And who directed The Desert Fox.

4.  Desmond Young, the author of Rommel, The Desert Fox, appears as himself.

5.  Young met Rommel as a prisoner.

Five steps.  Who da Boss?

(Oh, and Richard Boone is in there, too, as one of Rommel's officers.  Have Schmeißer - Will Travel?).

Then again, I was in correspondence with a retired Australian army officer who knew Rommel as a Captain. I da Boss.