Actors And Their Characters
Can you identify these ten famous actors and the various characters they portrayed?
Marlon Brando won two Academy Awards for Best Actor from eight nominations in total. For which character did he receive his first unsuccessful nomination (he also portrayed that same character on the stage on Broadway)?
Terry Malloy ("On the Waterfront")
Mark Antony ("Julius Caesar")
Johnny Strabler ("The Wild One")
Stanley Kowalski ("A Streetcar Named Desire")
Tom Hanks is a very accomplished actor with two Oscars in the 20th century and a number of nominations. In which movie did he portray Chuck Noland for which he was nominated for Best Actor?
Big
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Philadelphia
Cast Away
Dustin Hoffman has won Academy Awards and been nominated a number of times. However, which character did he portray that he received his first Academy Award nomination?
Benjamin Braddock
Jack Crabb (a.k.a. "Little Big Man")
Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo
Louis Dega
Gregory Peck won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird". In which of these movies did he portray Philip Schuyler, a journalist researching anti-Semitism in and around the communities of New York City?
Twelve O'Clock High
The Yearling
The Keys of the Kiingdom
Gentleman's Agreement
Walter Brennan won three Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor. He received a fourth nomination, so can you name the character he played in this fourth unsuccessful nomination?
Judge Roy Bean ("The Westerner")
Swan Bostram ("Come and Get It")
Pastor Rosier Pile ("Sergeant York")
Peter Goodwin ("Kentucky")
Al Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor for movie "Scent of a Woman". Prior to that win he had received four nominations for Best Actor in the movies listed below. Of these four nominations, in which movie did he portray Arthur Kirkland?
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
The Godfather Part II
...And Justice for All
Harrison Ford is widely known for his portrayal of the fictional professor Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. in a number of movies. For which character did he receive his first nomination for Best Actor at the 58th Academy Awards?
Dr. Richard Kimble ("The Fugitive")
Det. John Book ("Witness")
President James Marshal ("Air Force One")
Rick Deckard ("Blade Runner")
Laurence Olivier received nine nominations for Academy Awards, for Best Actor, however he received one nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The character he played for this nomination was Dr. Christian Szell. Can you name the movie?
Sleuth
The Entertainer
The Boys from Brazil
Marathon Man
Morgan Freeman has been acting for over 50 years with numerous Academy Award nominations with a win as Best Supporting Actor. What was the name of the character for which he won this award?
Leo Smalls Jr. a.k.a Fast Black ("Street Smart")
Eddie "Scrap-Iron" Dupris ("Million Dollar Baby")
Hoke Colburn ("Driving Miss Daisy")
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding ("The Shawshank Redemption")
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr. is better known to us as Sir Michael Caine, with a career spanning in excess of 65 years and over 130 films. Four of his nominations for Best Actor are listed below. What character was in the film "The Quiet American"?
Alfie Elkins
Thomas Fowler
Milo Tindle
Professor Frank Bryant
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