It’s been a while since I’ve stumped you!
1. A cop (tv), a shepherd (tv), a friend’s lawyer (tv)
Ron Glass in Barney Miller, Firefly, and Friends (Ross’s lawyer)
Solved by Tom Hilton.
2. A nun (tv), a bipolar mother (tv), a soap star (movie)
Sally Field in The Flying Nun, ER, and Soapdish
TIE: Solved by Tom Hilton and Melville.
3. A bank employee (movie), an immigrant (tv), a political volunteer working backstage (movie)
Carol Kane in Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi, and Annie Hall
Solved by Melville.
4. A bus driver (tv), a sheriff (movie), a pool player (movie)
Jackie Gleason in The Honeymooners, Smokey & the Bandit, and The Hustler
TIE: Solved by Tom Hilton and Melville.
5. A law firm bigwig (tv), an expatriate (movie), a jazz saxophonist (obscure movie only I have seen)
HINT: A dancer (movies)
Gregory Hines in Will & Grace, White Nights, The Tic Code, and Cotton Club (and like, everything else)
6. A medical resident (tv), a wine enthusiast (movie), a lesbian (movie)
Sandra Oh in Gray’s Anatomy, Sideways, and Under the Tuscan Sun
Solved by Wendy.
7. A brother-in-law (movie), a reporter for the Boston Globe (tv), an advertising guy (tv)
HINT: God these are such easy clues, I don’t even know what to do with you people. Okay, a television production guy (tv)
Timothy Busfeld in Field of Dreams, West Wing, thirtysomething, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Solved by Ben.
With #5, I kept getting stuck mentally on Gene Kelly (an expatriate in An American in Paris? and definitely a dancer).
Funny thing is, I wrote the whole post around Hines. (Him and Glass.) He got stuck in my head and I started thinking of roles.
I feel better about not getting 5 & 7–I haven’t seen any of the tv shows or movies mentioned in those two.
Ah, I didn’t watch Will & Grace much after its first season or two. I just kept mulling over the casts of all the law firm shows (Richard Dysart as a dancer? Peter MacNicol as a jazz saxophonist? William Shatner as either?? Gah!)
Also shows how we make assumptions on certain words. Tom and I immediately caught “shepherd,” but when I saw “expatriate,” I could only associate it with Americans in Paris (Rather than Gene Kelly, I got mentally stuck on Sidney Poitier in Paris Blues, a jazz saxophonist expatriate,) or maybe Brits in Italy.
You’re right, I’ve never heard of The Tic Code. Interesting cast.
The Tic Code is a lovely movie; maybe the only honest look at Tourette’s.
Timothy Busfield was the director on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. And one of three good things about that show (Timothy Busfield, Rob Corddry and the girl from Shaun of the Dead).
I could not for the life of me remember Busfield’s job on Studio 60, but a director is on the production staff like all the other jobs I thought he might have had but wasn’t sure. Ha!
I loved that show and I’m sorry it was cancelled. I recognize this is a minority view but I’m used to that.