Tuesday Trivia: Name That Character

A while back Deborah did a few quizzes in which she listed a series of roles, and you were asked to identify the actor who had played them all. This is sort of the inverse of that one: I list three actors, and you have to identify the character they all played (note: the same character doesn’t always have the same name). Some are probably easy; others, I think, not so much. There is no unifying theme to this quiz, unless someone happens to discern one, in which case there is and I meant it all along.

Update: All solved.

  1. Elliott Gould, George Sanders, James Garner
    Solved by Melville (comment 2) and Hogan (comment 6)
  2. Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Anita Louise, Lindsay Duncan
    Solved by Evn (comment 8 ) and Hazel (comment 9)
  3. Keanu Reeves, Laurence Olivier, Dan O’Herlihy
    Solved by Melville (comment 5)
  4. Natasha Richardson, Elsa Lanchester, Jenny Agutter
    Solved by Melville (comment 5)
  5. James LeGros, Jon Finch, Toshiro Mifune, Charlton Heston
    Solved by Melville (comment 2)
  6. Yvonne de Carlo, Anne Bancroft, Debra Messing
    Solved by Evn (comment 3)
  7. John Malkovich, Tony Todd, Adam Baldwin
    Solved by Hazel (comment 9)

Note: I’ll be in meetings for much of the day, beginning at 10:30 am PST, so if I’m not confirming your answers promptly, be patient.

10 comments

  1. Evn says:

    Is #3 Don John from Much Ado About Nothing?

  2. Melville says:

    #5 – Macbeth (Mifune in the Kurosawa version, Throne of Blood)

    #1 – Philip Marlowe? (Garner and Gould for sure, but I don’t know when or if Sanders did)

  3. Evn says:

    #6 is Mary Magdalene.

  4. TehipiteTom says:

    Okay, maybe not so hard.

    Evn, it’s not Don John.

    Melville, you’ve got the right character; I’ll let you or someone else figure out George Sanders.

  5. Melville says:

    Is #4 Mary Shelley?

    Is #3 Prince Hal/Henry V? I’ve never seen My Own Private Idaho, but wasn’t it a modern retelling of the story?

  6. Hogan says:

    Was George Sanders in The Falcon Takes Over (based on Farewell My Lovely)?

  7. TehipiteTom says:

    Melville, correct on both.

    Hogan, you got it.

  8. Evn says:

    I’m going to take a wild Shakespearean stab and say #2 is Titania (unless Judi Dench played Catwoman).

  9. Hazel says:

    #2 is Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    #7 is Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde

  10. TehipiteTom says:

    Yup, and yup. Looks like Hazel cross-posted with Evn, so I’ll give you both credit.

    Evn, you haven’t lived ’til you’ve seen Judi Dench as Catwoman. 😉