Sam or Larry ... Larry or Sam Trivia Quiz

Answer: Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne starred as the talented, but sometimes troubled musician Ike Turner in the film, "What's Love Got To Do With It".

The story was loosely based on the life of singer-performer Tina Turner.
The movie centered on the life of singer Anna May Bullock, who used the stage name of Tina Turner.

The movie gave an account of her turbulent marriage to Ike Turner, and her fight to finally break away from his Svengali-like control and become a superstar in her own right.


* An accomplished actor, playwright, director and producer, Laurence Fishburne's
professional career has covered performances in television, on the Broadway stage, and in feature films.

*As a young actor, Fishburne was originally cast in the role of the youngest
family member, Michael Evans, on the hit television series "Good Times"
(1979). Before the start of filming, Fishburne was replaced, with the role going to fellow actor Ralph Carter.

Answer: Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne co-starred with Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix", and in the two sequels.
Fishburne played the role of Morpheus, the captain of the Nebuchadnezzar human forces against the Sentient Machine.

Laurence Fishburne was selected for the role, winning out over veteran actors Gary Oldman and...Samuel L. Jackson.

"The Matrix" was released on March 31, 1999, and almost immediately became a huge box office success. The film was considered by many as being the greatest science fiction film of all time.

The film was honored at the 72nd Academy Awards ceremonies in 2000 with four Oscars in merit categories for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects.

The two sequels, "The Matrix Unloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" were filmed simultaneously during the same movie shoot, and released on May 15, 2003 and November 15, 2003, respectively.

* In 1992, Laurence Fishburne received a Tony Award for his stage performance
in the August Wilson play, "Two Trains Running".

* Fishburne won the Primetime Emmy Award in 1993 for Outstanding
Guest Actor on a Drama Series for "Tribeca" (1993), and shared a Primetime
Emmy for Outstanding Made for Television Movie with the five producers of
"Miss Evers' Boys", a 1997 HBO movie.

* Laurence Fishburne was nominated for an Academy Award in 1994 for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for his portrayal of musician Ike Turner in the 1993 movie, "What's Love Got To Do With It".

Answer: true

"School Daze", written and directed by Spike Lee, was one of the few films that featured both Laurence Fishburne and Samuel L. Jackson in the cast.

Larry Fishburne played one of the leading roles as character Vaughn Dap Dunlap.
Samuel L. Jackson was featured in a lesser role as a character named Leeds.

* Laurence John Fishburne, III was born in Augusta, Georgia on July 30, 1961.
He was raised in Brooklyn, New York by his mother, Hattie Bell.
Fishburn is a graduate of Lincoln Square Academy in New York, New York.

* Samuel L. Jackson was born on December 21, 1948 in Washington, D.C.
He was raised by his mother, Elizabeth Jackson in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Jackson graduated from Riverside High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Answer: Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson starred as troubled high school teacher Trevor Garfield in the crime action drama "One Eight Seven", also known as "187".

This 1997 movie was the first film that Samuel L. Jackson received top star billing on.

The story follows a New York high school teacher who is savagely attacked by one of his students. After a lengthy recovery time from his life threatening injuries he relocates to Los Angeles, and secures a job teaching in a Los Angeles high school.
Conflict soon arises when he is confronted by the neighborhood gang element who opposes his efforts to help his students, and is again threatened.

The films title, "One Eight Seven", comes from the California Penal Code section for homicide, which is 187.


* During a three year period in the early part of his career, Samuel L. Jackson
worked as the stand-in double for Bill Cosby during the audience tapings of "The Cosby Show" (1984).

* As a young up and coming actor, Jackson was mentored by veteran actor Morgan Freeman.

Answer: Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne starred with Stephen Baldwin in the 1996 movie "Fled".

The story centers on two escape convicts, Charles Piper (Fishburne) and Mark Dodge (Baldwin), who are chained together and trying to evade the "long arm of the law" in the persons of a U.S. Marshal (Robert John Burke) and a local cop (Will Patton), each man with a different agenda. Thrown into the mix is a Cuban Mafia Boss (Michael Nader) who is seeking Mark Dodge for computer hacking that resulted in theft of several million dollars of the Mafia's money.


* Among his credits, which number over 100 since the beginning of his career
in 1968, Fishburne has added his talents to movies such as "Cornbread,
Earl and Me" (1975), "Death Wish II" (1982), "The Color Purple (1985), "Deep Cover" (1992), and "Mission: Impossible III" (2006).

* Fishburne's television guest starring appearances includes series like
"Trapper John, M.D." (1981), "M.A.S.H. (1982), and "Pee Wee's Playhouse"
(1986). Fishburne's starring TV roles include three seasons as Dr. Raymond
Langston on the top rated series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigations" (2008-
2011), and Jack Crawford in the series "Hannibal" (2012-2014).

Answer: neither Larry nor Sam

Neither Larry nor Sam was part of the cast.

The 1999 film, an adaptation of a novel by Stephen King, featured Michael Clarke Duncan in the role of the mystical death row inmate, John Coffey.

At the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony on March 26, 2000, Michael Clarke Duncan was honored with an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

"The Green Mile" also received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Sound, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Answer: true

Samuel L. Jackson was featured in the film, co-starring with Richard Attenborough, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Wayne Knight.

The movie spun two sequels, however, Jackson's character didn't survive the first installment of the movie franchise.

After a park computer programmer (Knight) sabotages the parks security system to facilitate a theft, Arnold volunteers to leave a secured emergency bunker to try and reboot the system from a remote utility shed, a short distance away. Arnold is attacked and literally ripped apart by one of the parks prehistoric inhabitants.

* The rich and familiar voice of Jackson was used to bring several animated
screen characters to life, including Whiplash in the 2013 movie "Turbo",
Zog the dog in the 2009 movie "Astro Boy", the Afro Samuari and Ninja Ninja in the features "Afro Samuari" in 2007 and 2009, and the Marvel Comics superhero Nick Fury in four Marvel superhero films from 2010 through 2014.

* Samuel L. Jackson granted permission to Marvel Comics to use his likeness
for the Ultimate Nick Fury in Marvel Cinematic projects in 2008. Through
2014, the character appeared in ten movies.

Answer: Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne received top billing in the 1995 HBO TV-movie "The Tuskegee Airmen". The movie originally aired on the HBO Network, and was later released on a limited basis in theaters.

The movie provides an account of the 332nd Fighter Group, the first all African-American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Fishburne starred as Captain Hannibal "Iowa" Lee, Jr.

Also featured in the film were performances by actors Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher John Lithgow, and Cuba Gooding, Jr.

* As a voice-over artist, Laurence Fishburne provided the voices of "Thrax"
in the 2001 movie "Osmosis Jones", and "The Silver Surfer" in the 2007 film,
"Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer".

* For video games, Fishburne has provided the voices of Isaiah Reed in "True
Crime: New York City", Morpheus in "Matrix" games in 2003, 2005, and 2009,
and the voice of Dr. Raymond Langston for "CSI" video games in 2009 and 2010.

Answer: Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson is credited with an appearance, although a very brief one, in the film. In the movie credits, Jackson's character is listed only as Hold-Up Man.

In the scene where African crown prince Akeem Joffer (Eddie Murphy) in working in Cleo McDowell's (John Amos) fast food restaurant, he is confronted by a nervous hold-up man, who is played by Jackson. Needless to say, Jackson is on the losing side of the encounter.

"Coming to America" also featured Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, and Paul Bates.
The film was a commercial success, both domestically and worldwide, earning two Academy Award nominations.

Hoping to ride the success of the film, CBS television produced a sitcom the following year with Tommy Davidson in the lead role. The pilot episode went unsold, and the series was not picked up.
The pilot episode aired only once on July 4, 1989.


* A few of Samuel L. Jackson's most memorable characters and films include:
Agent Neville Flynn in "Snakes of a Plane" (2006); Sgt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson
in the 2003 film "S.W.A.T."; black market gun-runner Ordell Robbie in "Jackie Brown" (1997); good Samaritan Zeus Carver in "Die Hard: With a Vengeance"
(1995); hitman Jules Winnfield in the 1994 cult classic movie "Pulp Fiction" and Mace Windu in "Star War" movies in 1999, 2002, 2005, and 2008.

Answer: Samuel L. Jackson

In the film, Samuel L. Jackson starred in the title role as NYPD detective turned private investigator John Shaft. In the storyline, Jackson is the nephew of the legendary private investigator John Shaft, who was played by Richard Roundtree in a cameo role.

Richard Roundtree starred in the original 1971 movie "Shaft", and in two movie sequels, "Shaft in Africa" (1973) and "Shaft's Big Score" (1973), as well as in a short lived television series in 1973.

* On June 13, 2000, Jackson received a Star on the famed Hollywood Walk of
Fame, in front of 7018 Hollywood Boulevard.

* On June 30, 2006, in a ceremony at Grauman Chinese Theater in Hollywood,
Jackson joined Hollywood royalty when he placed his handprints and footprints
in cement, joining the elite entertainers of Hollywood celebrities.