Morgan Freeman - The Radiance of Stillness Quiz

Answer: The Electric Company

"The Electric Company" first played on PBS in the early 1970s. Morgan was part of a stellar original cast that also included Rita Moreno and Bill Cosby. The show was aimed at children who had aged out of another PBS program, "Sesame Street." Some of the regular sketches included "The Adventures of Letterman," a game-show called "Wild Guess," and "Soft-Shoe Silhouettes." The "Soft-Shoe Silhouettes" showed the shadow profiles of two people facing each other; one would start with a single phoneme, such as "D," and the second would add a second phoneme, such as "Or," then together the two people would say, "Door."

This image is of a commercial building, hinting at a company.

Answer: All My Children

Morgan Freeman never played on the daytime drama "All My Children," which began on ABC in 1970.

He did appear on two episodes of "Ryan's Hope" in 1981, playing a surveillance expert, and he had a recurring role as Dr. Roy Bingham on "Another World."

In "The Twilight Zone" episode titled "Dealer's Choice, (1985)" Freeman played Tony, one of a group of friends playing poker with a mysterious guest.

This image of a sudsy soap is supposed to inspire the thought of soap operas.

Answer: Jessica Tandy

Freeman co-starred with the great actress Jessica Tandy in the movie "Driving Miss Daisy," which won four Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Makeup. Freeman won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy (1990).

This image is of a computer similar to a Tandy, which was a very early personal computer that was sold through electronics retailers RadioShack.

Answer: Lean On Me

"Lean On Me" was a semi-biographical film based on the career of inner city high school principal, Joe Louis Clark. As Clark, Morgan was determined to improve his high school's test scores. His methods included expelling over 300 troublemaking students, fortifying security, and requiring all students to know how to sing the school song on demand. Freeman won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture - Morgan Freeman (1991).

This image is supposed to be of the leaning tower of Pisa.

Answer: March of the Penguins

"March of the Penguins" was created by French producers and was originally released in French; Freeman provided the narration for the English version in 2005. That year, the film won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film followed emperor penguins for a year, including the breeding season. After the female birds laid one egg each, they would transfer their eggs carefully to the males, who incubated the eggs and huddled together for warmth while waiting for the eggs to hatch and the females to return with food.

The image is supposed to be an outline of Antarctica, which is where emperor penguins live.

Answer: 5 Flights Up

Freeman both starred in and served as executive producer of "5 Flights Up" with Diane Keaton. He and Keaton played Alex and Ruth, retired New Yorkers who have been living in a walk-up apartment for over 40 years. The movie covers their thinking while they debate selling their apartment, a local news story, and the prognosis of their aged dog. Cynthia Nixon played their niece, a broker who wants her aunt and uncle to sell.

In an interview with Charlie Rose, Freeman indicated that "This film was just a work of pure pleasure because I'm just dancing with a lady who loves to dance." (September 29, 2015).

This image is of five books, or five stories....thus five flights up.

Answer: The Bonfire of the Vanities

"The Bonfire of the Vanities" was considered a flop in the U.S. upon its release, largely because critics felt that good-guy Tom Hanks was miscast as the lying, cheating, overprivileged New York banker. Other actors on the film pointed to co-star Bruce Willis, whom they said had a large ego and made many demands on set.

Freeman was not the first actor considered for the role of the judge. Walter Matthau, Alan Arkin, and Edward James Olmos were either offered or considered for the role before it Morgan Freeman took over.

The mirror in this image represents vanity.

Answer: Western

"Unforgiven" was a subversive way for actor and director Clint Eastwood to honor the genre that made him famous yet undermine the traditional western's values of gunslinging, racism, and retribution.

In this movie, Eastwood played William, an older, sharp-shooting bandit who is enticed out of retirement to go out as a bounty hunter. On the way, he recruited his old partner-in-crime, Ned, played by Freeman, to join him, but the aging sidekick realized he no longer had the temperament or interest in duels and gunfighting.

"Unforgiven" was several Oscars, including Best Picture as well as Best Actor and Best Director for Eastwood.

This image is supposed to be of a saguaro, a cactus native to parts of the western United States.

Answer: Se7en

In 1995's "Seven," Freeman played a detective on the verge of retiring who ends up chasing down a particularly gruesome murdered, one who killed people based on the seven deadly sins - pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. He is somewhat reluctantly paired with a new partner played by Brad Pitt.

The film was a box office as well as critical success but did not garner many major awards.

The wooden pull toy pictured here has seven knobs attached to it.

Answer: Bringing confiscated goods into prison

Red referred to himself as "a real Sears and Roebuck," after the large department store, for his talent of acquiring all types of goods for his fellow prisoners. In the course of the movie, he gave his friend Andy, played by Tim Robbins, a rock hammer and a series of posters that covered up a secret Andy was keeping from everyone.

At the 67th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, Best Original Score, Best Music, and Best Cinematography. Freeman was nominated for Best Actor but the Oscar that year went to Tom Hanks for "Forrest Gump."