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Fun Trivia: S : Something in Common

Special Sub-Topic: Same Character, Different Actors. And Not Remakes!


Which of the following actors hasn't played Philip Marlowe?

    James Cagney. James Garner, Robert Montgomery, and Eliot Gould have also played the role.

Which of the following actors hasn't played Al Capone?
    Henry Silva. Jason Robards in "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre", Rod Steiger in "Al Capone" (1959) and Robert DeNiro in "The Untouchables".

Kathy Bates played Molly Brown in "Titanic" and Tucker McGuire played the same character in "A Night to Remember" (also about the Titanic), but who played her in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"?
    Debbie Reynolds. Cloris Leachman also played Molly Brown in a TV movie called "S.O.S. Titanic" (1979).

Marlon Brando played Vito Corleone in "The Godfather". Who played the young Vito in Part 2?
    Robert DeNiro. Marlon Brando received an Academy Awards for Best Actor for playing Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" and Robert DeNiro won Best Supporting Actor for the same character in "The Godfather Part 2".

Which of the following actors hasn't played Sherlock Holmes?
    Clive Donner. Other actors who played Holmes include John Barrymore, Peter Cook, Raymond Massey, Peter O'Toole, and Christopher Plummer.

Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck have both played Jack Ryan. Who was the first actor to play that character?
    Alec Baldwin. In "The Hunt for Red October".

What famous sleuth did Joan Hickson, Angela Lansbury and Margaret Rutherford all play at some point?
    Miss Marple. Ruth Rendell isn't a fictitious character, she's actually an author of murder mysteries.

Peter Sellers made Inspector Clouseau famous, but he wasn't the only actor to play him. Which of the following also played Inspector Clouseau?
    Alan Arkin. Roberto Benigni also tried his hand as Inspector Clouseau's son in "Son of the Pink Panther" (1993), directed by the original "The Pink Panther" director, Blake Edwards.

Which other famous detective has been played by such actors as Albert Finney, Tony Randall, and Peter Ustinov?
    Hercule Poirot. Finney was Poirot in "Murder on the Orient Express", Randall in "The Alphabet Murders," and Ustinov played Poirot many times.

A bit different. The image of "The Lady in Red" has cropped up in popular culture all over the place, from Bugs Bunny cartoons to references in pop and rock music. Kelly LeBrock even starred as the title character in a film called "The Woman in Red" directed by Gene Wilder. Who played "The Lady in Red" in the film "Dillinger" in 1973?
    Cloris Leachman. As well as film, there are references to a Lady in Red in songs by balladeer, Chris de Burgh, and rock group, Ten Years After, to name just two.


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