Tuesday Trivia: Round Robin Actors

Today it’ll be a round robin, and it’s guess the actor.

I’ll start.

A historical bandit. A professional reader. A mentor to a younger spy.

96 comments

  1. Deborah Lipp says:

    But he talked about it ALL THE TIME on his Table for Five show. Which was a really good show except for how he would always bring the conversation around to his own thespian career.

  2. Daven says:

    Probably why he lost the show. πŸ˜‰

  3. Evn says:

    Marilu Henner did the same thing on her talk show. Drove me nuts.

  4. Melville says:

    A T.V. newsman, a pimp, a baseball player.

  5. Daven says:

    William Hurt

  6. Melville says:

    No.

  7. Evn says:

    Timothy Olyphant?

    ( _______, The Girl Next Door The Broken Heart’s Club. )

  8. Evn says:

    Sorry, there should be a comma between Door and The.

  9. Melville says:

    Nope.

  10. Melville says:

    Hints:
    1. He was Oscar-nominated for playing the newsman.
    2. When he played the pimp, one of the actresses playing one of his ‘girls’ won the Oscar.
    3. The movie where he played a baseball player is one of seven he’s made with the same writer-director.

  11. Melville says:

    Michael Keaton?

    No.

  12. Daven says:

    I can’t think of the newsman role, but Tom Cruise?

  13. Melville says:

    I can’t think of the newsman role, but Tom Cruise?

    Not it.

  14. Daven says:

    Well, I’m stumped.

  15. Deborah Lipp says:

    This is so much harder without IMDb.

  16. George says:

    David Straitharn–Good Night and Good Luck, LA Confidential (Bassinger), Eight Men Out (Sayles)

  17. Daven says:

    Oh, NICE!

  18. Melville says:

    Yay, George!

    All yours.

  19. Deborah Lipp says:

    What would we do without George?

  20. Daven says:

    heh, just noticed. 68 = my birth year. kewl

  21. George says:

    a possibly promiscuous photographer, a devout angel-faced virgin, a bank-teller/call girl

    I tuned in at just the right time today! Actually knew Straitharn once I read the clues, didn’t even need the Google for a change to be sure.

  22. Daven says:

    Lisa Bonet?

  23. George says:

    Not Lisa Bonet.

  24. Deborah Lipp says:

    I am stumped for photographers. The only one I can think of is Faye Dunaway, but I doubt she’s ever been angel-faced and virginal.

  25. George says:

    That she’s a photographer isn’t a big issue in the film, and in fact her husband is the one taking more pictures in the film.

    Here’s a clue: the films were released in 2007, 1987, and 1994

  26. Deborah Lipp says:

    WAG: Susan Sarandon?

  27. George says:

    No, not Susan Sarandon.

    Another clue: the most recent film she directed herself and her real-life parents play her character’s parents in the film.

  28. George says:

    And one more clue–this run of roles does not mention that she’s played the same character in 3 different films, one animated.

  29. Evn says:

    Reese Witherspoon?

  30. Daven says:

    No help. Sorry.

  31. Christina says:

    Christina Ricci?

  32. George says:

    No, not Reese Witherspoon.

    She’s not American.

    She’s been co-nominated for a best adapted screenplay Oscar.

  33. George says:

    Not Christina Ricci, either.

  34. Evn says:

    Very small rocks? Churches? A duck?

  35. Daven says:

    George should be stoned now with copies of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” in VHS, DVD and Blueray…

  36. Evn says:

    And he didn’t even try to look it up on IMDB. I am completely disillusioned now.

  37. Christina says:

    Sara Polley? Minnie Driver?

    (If I get it right, continue on without me, I’m off for the day)

  38. George says:

    I’m not a witch, promise. Neither is she.

    The bank teller movie her character is in the title. It costars an actor whose first prominent role made it hard to know what he actually looked like.

  39. George says:

    Sorry, neither Polley or Driver.

  40. Melville says:

    Julie Delpy in Two Days in Paris, The Passion of Beatrice, and Killing Zoe.

  41. Deborah Lipp says:

    Melville, thank the GODS.

  42. Melville says:

    I couldn’t have gotten it without all the clues. I haven’t seen any of the three films. But the “co-nominated for a screenplay Oscar” and that she’s not American got me to Before Sunset, and I remembered reading a review of Two Days in Paris that mentioned she’d cast her own parents as a her character’s parents.

    But you should have gotten the Monty Python joke! πŸ™‚

  43. George says:

    Sorry that was so hard I’m such a Delpy fan I thought it was easy. But then I’ve seen “Two Days in Paris” relatively recently. I thought for sure the 3 films clue would be the give-away, since she and Hawke played their same characters from the Sunset/Sunrise films in “Waking Life” too.

    The Python joke went over my head as I was so focused no helping you all say Delpy.

  44. Deborah Lipp says:

    It was a great round. Congrats to all.