Thirteen at Dinner

by Andrew Bradburn

ANSWER: HURT

 

The names on the list are the surnames of actors / actresses from movies and TV shows with numbers in their titles, like the title of the puzzle. In fact, the numbers within the titles refer to a specific person or group of people from that movie or TV show.

Seating them alphabetically by surname clockwise around the tables so that each group starts at a big chair gives the following seating:

Four Brothers
  • Benjamin
  • Gibson
  • Hedlund
  • Wahlberg
The Nine
  • Benedicto
  • Billingsley
  • Collins
  • Daly
  • Davis
  • Guaty
  • McBride
  • Raver
  • Wolf
My Two Dads
  • Evigan
  • Reiser
Ocean's Eleven
  • Benedict
  • Bishop
  • Conte
  • Davis, Jr
  • Fell
  • Harvey
  • Lawford
  • Lester
  • Martin
  • Silva
  • Sinatra
Henry VIII and his Six Wives
  • Asher
  • Bos
  • Cuka
  • Frederick
  • Leigh-Hunt
  • Rampling
The Magnificent Seven
  • Bronson
  • Brynner
  • Buchholz
  • Coburn
  • Dexter
  • McQueen
  • Vaughn
Mickey One
  • Beatty
12 Angry Men
  • Cronyn
  • Danza
  • Davis
  • Gandolfini
  • Harewood
  • Lemmon
  • Mueller-Stahl
  • Olmos
  • Petersen
  • Scott
  • Vance
  • Williamson
The Three Musketeers
  • Chamberlain
  • Finlay
  • Reed
Ten Little Indians
  • Berlinger
  • Efroni
  • Lister
  • Lom
  • McCarthy
  • Pleasance
  • Smith
  • Stallone
  • Thorp
  • Vaccaro
Party of Five
  • Campbell
  • Cavarno
  • Chabert
  • Fox
  • Wolf
Eight is Enough
  • Aames
  • Goodeve
  • Kay
  • Needham
  • O'Grady
  • Rich
  • Richardson
  • Walters

Starting at the big chair on top and proceeding clockwise around each table, the numbers can be used as indexes into the surnames and spell the sets: IDENT / ILLIAM / OURIST / ACTORW / FROMACC / ALT. Arranging these in numerical order by the group at the head of the table spells ACTOR WILLIAM FROM ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, which leads to the answer HURT.