Tuesday Trivia: More actors

I am not feeling good. My brain thinks it’s three a.m. and I shouldn’t be awake. I have no idea why.

Anyway, no damn chance of seven trivia questions, so we’re doing more actor round-robin. It was a lot of fun last week. I’ll start:

An obsessed fan, a boxer, an overprotective father.

36 comments

  1. Tom Hilton says:

    Robert DeNiro–The Fan, Raging Bull, and Meet the Parents

  2. Deborah Lipp says:

    Actually, I meant King of Comedy, but regardless, you’ve got it.

  3. Tom Hilton says:

    Amateur herpetologist, cold-blooded killer, logger

  4. George says:

    Henry Fonda

    The Lady Eve, Once Upon a Time in the West, Sometimes a Great Notion

  5. George says:

    A rich former convict, a reverend doctor, a pulp writer

  6. George says:

    Too hard, or is no one out there?

  7. Deborah Lipp says:

    I don’t have it, but I’m feeling woozy.

  8. Melville says:

    Can’t play today, too much work.

    Also, I’m stumped.

  9. George says:

    Clue: a naive American pulp writer in Europe

  10. Bill says:

    Sounds like Joseph Cotton in “The Third Man”, but darned if I can figure out the other two films on your list.

  11. George says:

    Bill’s on to something.

    First film is a lesser known film by a very major director. Second film is the subject of one of the most revealing books on filmmaking.

  12. Bill says:

    Had to resort to IMDB (I hope that isn’t cheating) for the second film: Heaven’s Gate. Still stumped by the first film.

    But it’s definitely Joseph Cotten.

  13. George says:

    Yes, Cotten. The first film is Under Capricorn, a rarely screened Hitchcock.

    Go, Bill.

  14. Tom Hilton says:

    Took a whole lot of IMDb-ing, but I think the first film is Under Capricorn.

    At any rate, it’s Bill’s turn, isn’t it?

  15. Bill says:

    I’ll go easy on everyone:

    An ex-vaudevillian, a bank robber, God.

  16. Steve H. says:

    Stumped, but then that doesn’t take much when you’re as film-illiterate as I am.

  17. George says:

    George Burns

    The Sunshine Boys, Going in Style, Oh, God

  18. Bill says:

    And it’s over to George!

  19. George says:

    a frightened insomniac, a manifesto writing attempted assassin, a teen who has written 65 songs for an unrequited love

  20. Tom Hilton says:

    Lili Taylor? The Haunting, I Shot Andy Warhol, and…Say Anything maybe?

  21. George says:

    You got it, Tom, and you’re right on “Say Anything,” too.

  22. Tom Hilton says:

    Never seen that one, although I gather it’s sort of iconic for people of our generation.

    Okay, here goes: a gunfighter, a corrupt cop, an alcoholic writer.

  23. Deborah Lipp says:

    Crap, that’s like any three random movies you could pick!

  24. Tom Hilton says:

    I’ll wait a little while and then drop a hint if necessary.

  25. George says:

    Well, he works for clue 2 and he’s been in a billion films and Lili Taylor might have got you to him via “Mystic Pizza” and his sister, so I’ll take a wild guess and say Eric Roberts? (Role 2 “The Dark Knight”)

  26. George says:

    I’m out of here for awhile, but it’s not like I think I got it right anyway….

  27. Tom Hilton says:

    Not Eric Roberts.

    Hints: 3 movies by celebrated American directors; the first and last are nearly 20 years apart.

  28. Tom Hilton says:

    Hint: this actor is probably best known for his role as a general.

  29. George says:

    Sterling Hayden, most famous as General Jack D. Ripper, but the three films in the original clue are Johnny Guitar, The Godfather, and The Long Goodbye (the last one is a guess, as I’ve only seen parts of it a long time ago) (dirs: Coppola, Ray, Altman)

  30. Tom Hilton says:

    You got it! Your turn.

  31. George says:

    Anyone else out there or do we end it on a Long Goodbye? I’ll come up with something if people want to play.

  32. George says:

    Not that you don’t count, Tom.

  33. George says:

    Well, just in case:
    a dying millionaire, a member of a fictional singing family, an unusual detective

  34. Tom Hilton says:

    Just so you know, George, I still haven’t given up on this one.

  35. Tom Hilton says:

    Is it Buddy Ebsen? The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band would be the second role, and Barnaby Jones would be the third. And I’m sure he played a dying millionaire at some point.