Name that Actor! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Marlon Brando

This line is the sentence most often quoted from "The Godfather", perhaps because it so neatly sums up the implacable nature of the Mafia world. Johnny Fontane, Don Vito Corleone's godson, comes to him for help after he has been refused a film role by the Hollywood producer Jack Woltz. Marlon Brando, as Don Vito Corleone, tells him: "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse", which, with its subtext of menace, is really code for "I'll make him an offer he'd better not refuse!" Don Vito makes good on his promise: after finding his champion racehorse's head in his bed, Jack Woltz is only too eager to give Johnny the coveted role.

Answer: Estelle Reiner

Meg Ryan was actually having a turkey sandwich in that famous scene from "When Harry met Sally...". Harry had boasted to Sally that he would never be taken in by a woman pretending to have an orgasm, whereupon Sally threw her head back and went into a routine of writhing, gasping and shouting "Yes! Yes!" which had everybody in the restaurant looking at her.

In the ensuing silence, a fellow diner, played by Estelle Reiner, dropped the immortal line: "I'll have what she's having!" Estelle Reiner is the mother of the director, Rob Reiner, who asked her to be an extra in the restaurant scene.

Answer: Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood made five films in the "Dirty Harry" series, and this quote comes from the first of them, which was titled "Dirty Harry". The line is usually misquoted as "Do you feel lucky, punk?" What Clint Eastwood actually said is: "You have to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?" The character of Harry Callahan turned out to be one of the roles most closely associated with Clint Eastwood, but he was not the first casting choice.

The part was turned down by some of Hollywood's most prominent actors, including Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster and Steve McQueen.

Answer: Robert de Niro

The protagonist of Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver", Travis Bickle (Robert de Niro), is a Vietnam veteran who suffers from depression and insomnia. He drives a taxi during the night, the perfect job for an insomniac. His thoughts and fantasies get gradually more violent, and he practises his fast draw in front of the mirror in his apartment.

The tension in the film builds to the inevitable bloody climax. "Taxi Driver" garnered four Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Robert de Niro.

Answer: Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart is the central character in the ensemble cast of "Casablanca". He plays Rick Blaine, who owns the nightclub where most of the action takes place. "Everybody comes to Rick's!" as one of the characters remarks. An important strand of the story is the former love affair between Rick and Ilse (Ingrid Bergman).

They still have feelings for each other, which are evoked by the song "As Time Goes By".

Answer: Orson Welles

Charles Foster Kane's dying word in "Citizen Kane" was "Rosebud", and Joseph Cotten's character spends the entire movie trying to discover what he meant. The film was the cinematic magnum opus of Orson Welles, the auteur who wrote, directed, produced and starred in it. After over seven decades, it is still considered by most critics to be one of the greatest films ever made.
I am sure that the statute of limitations on spoilers has kicked in by now, so I have no hesitation in disclosing that Rosebud was the sleigh Kane played with as a little boy.

Answer: Marilyn Monroe

Sugar Kane Kowalczyk in "Some Like It Hot" is one of Marilyn Monroe's most endearing roles. She was a superb comedienne, even though she drove her director and co-stars crazy with her unpunctuality and inability to learn her lines. She won a Golden Globe for this film, but missed out on an Oscar nomination for her role, while her co-star Jack Lemmon secured a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his.

In my opinion, Marilyn was vastly underrated as an actress.

Answer: Tom Hanks

This quote is from "Forest Gump", for which Tom Hanks won an Oscar after having won another the previous year for his performance in "Philadelphia". His feat of winning consecutive Oscars is not unique: he is joined in that exclusive club by Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Jason Robards.

Answer: Bette Davis

This line from Bete Davis' Oscar-nominated performance as Margot Channing in "All About Eve" is often misquoted as "It's going to be a bumpy ride!"
Over Bette Davis' long career, she was nominated 11 times for a Best Actress Oscar, but only won twice: for "Dangerous" in 1936 and "Jezebel" in 1939.

Answer: Robert Duvall

Robert Duval made his film debut in 1962, playing Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird". He has made numerous films in a career spanning half a century and has been nominated several times for a Best Actor Oscar. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the "Godfather" films and in "Apocalypse Now".

When Robert Duvall, as Colonel Bill Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now", makes that disturbing speech about napalm in the morning, he ends his rant with another of the most frequently quoted lines from war movies: "Someday this war's gonna end."