A while back Deborah did a few quizzes in which she listed a series of roles, and you were asked to identify the actor who had played them all. This is sort of the inverse of that one: I list three actors, and you have to identify the character they all played (note: the same character doesn’t always have the same name). Some are probably easy; others, I think, not so much. There is no unifying theme to this quiz, unless someone happens to discern one, in which case there is and I meant it all along.
Update: All solved.
- Elliott Gould, George Sanders, James Garner
Solved by Melville (comment 2) and Hogan (comment 6) - Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Anita Louise, Lindsay Duncan
Solved by Evn (comment 8 ) and Hazel (comment 9) - Keanu Reeves, Laurence Olivier, Dan O’Herlihy
Solved by Melville (comment 5) - Natasha Richardson, Elsa Lanchester, Jenny Agutter
Solved by Melville (comment 5) - James LeGros, Jon Finch, Toshiro Mifune, Charlton Heston
Solved by Melville (comment 2) - Yvonne de Carlo, Anne Bancroft, Debra Messing
Solved by Evn (comment 3) - John Malkovich, Tony Todd, Adam Baldwin
Solved by Hazel (comment 9)
Note: I’ll be in meetings for much of the day, beginning at 10:30 am PST, so if I’m not confirming your answers promptly, be patient.
Is #3 Don John from Much Ado About Nothing?
#5 – Macbeth (Mifune in the Kurosawa version, Throne of Blood)
#1 – Philip Marlowe? (Garner and Gould for sure, but I don’t know when or if Sanders did)
#6 is Mary Magdalene.
Okay, maybe not so hard.
Evn, it’s not Don John.
Melville, you’ve got the right character; I’ll let you or someone else figure out George Sanders.
Is #4 Mary Shelley?
Is #3 Prince Hal/Henry V? I’ve never seen My Own Private Idaho, but wasn’t it a modern retelling of the story?
Was George Sanders in The Falcon Takes Over (based on Farewell My Lovely)?
Melville, correct on both.
Hogan, you got it.
I’m going to take a wild Shakespearean stab and say #2 is Titania (unless Judi Dench played Catwoman).
#2 is Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
#7 is Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde
Yup, and yup. Looks like Hazel cross-posted with Evn, so I’ll give you both credit.
Evn, you haven’t lived ’til you’ve seen Judi Dench as Catwoman. 😉