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Actors in Past, Present and Future Roles

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Actors in Past Present and Future Roles game quiz
"Some actors have had the good fortune to have played in all three time periods. A period in the past, present and the future. Sometimes it's a real stretch of their acting abilities. Here are a few of my favourites."

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1. This actor has played guest roles on "Gunsmoke" in 1966 and "The Virginian" in 1965, a recurring role as a spy on impossible missions but his most famous part was as Captain Kirk's Number One in a series from 1966-69 and many movies after that. Who is this quality actor?
    Deforest Kelly
    Jonathan Frakes
    Leonard Nimoy
    Richard Hatch


2. I liked this actor mostly in his western days as a sometimes unwanted step-child in 1965. In his subsequent roles he played a lawyer in 1973 and as a stuntman capturing wanted criminals in 1981. His futuristic roles though not technically far in the future, dealt with futuristic issues and science fiction. One was about a futuristic plane stranded in earth's orbit filmed in 1983. Who played the pilot?
    Bruce Boxleitner
    Lee Majors
    Peter Breck
    Charleton Heston


3. Despite a litany of guest roles in the present era, and a recurring role on a futuristic spaceship in "Battlestar Galactica" in 2006, this actress is most famous for her roles in the distant past. In one she played a character in Rome's hayday. Who is this warrior princess?
    Lucy Liu
    Suzanne Somers
    Lucy Lawless
    Hudson Leick


4. This actor had small roles in television's war and western genre but was most famous for impossible missions in the sixties and starring in a future based series when the moon was blown out of earth's orbit in 1999. Many of his roles were in series with his wife. Who was the husband of Barbara Bain?
    Peter Graves
    Robert Hayes
    Martin Mull
    Martin Landau


5. This muscular actor will forever be remembered for his historical tv portrayal of Hercules from 1995-99, but he is also a cult favourite of a futuristic series as Capt. Dylan Hunt. His roles have included movies 'Walking Tall: The Payback' (2007), 'Never Cry Werewolf' (2008) and tv guest shots like 'Two and a Half Men'. Who is this ladies man?
    Kevin Sorbo
    Dean Cain
    Charlie Sheen
    Hulk Hogan


6. This actor was frantic once in 1988 and as a cop guarding a witness in 1985 both in the present. He recently battled aliens in the old west and battled renegade androids in Blade Runner in the future. Who is this famous actor?
    Peter Fonda
    Jake Gyllenhaal
    Jeff Goldblum
    Harrison Ford


7. Another favourite, this knighted actor has been in so many films. He is always a classy, cool individual in the past (once a bit part as King Richard in 1991) and super-suave spy 007 in the present, seven times from 1962 to 1971 and in 1983. The only futuristic film I know of though is 'Zardoz' from 1974. In that movie which actor played an exterminator named Zed who battled the eternals?
    George Lazenby
    Roger Moore
    Sean Connery
    Pierce Brosnan


8. This Montreal born actor has been in front of the camera for more than 50 years. He was captain and later admiral of a starship, a cop named Sgt. TJ Hooker in 1982 and in the past as secret agent Jeff Cable in "Barbary Coast".
    Robert Conrad
    Gil Gerard
    Doug McClure
    William Shatner


9. This actor played martial arts expert Kwai Chang Caine in the past and that character's own grandson in the present. He played Frankenstein in the future in a death race. He played numerous roles including western outlaw Cole Younger in a film along with two of his real life brothers. Do you know his name?
    David Carradine
    Boris Karloff
    Bruce Lee
    Chuck Norris


10. This actor's voice was heard on radio long before he was seen on tv. For 14 years this Canadian was a Nevada patriarch on television. In 1973 he starred as "Griff" as a private investigator. Later he was leader of a ragtag fugitive fleet in 1978 and again in 1980.
    Michael Biehn
    Michael Ironside
    Michael Gross
    Lorne Greene


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Compiled Jun 28 12