Ultimate Movie Trivia

[DownGoesFrazier]

You're not going to tell us the one you were originally thinking of?

[FanofCary]

Thanks for welcoming me back. I'm not going to be around this weekend, so I'll leave the thread open for someone else.

[lavenderblue19]

No, tell you what though. Since FOC doesn't want the thread, let's continue with the question. Name the actor who starred in 3 films, playing the same character. Decades later, it was turned into a TV show with that character, starring another actor. Name the films and the actor who portrayed that character in the films????

 

Comedies and the actor appeared on Broadway early in his career

[DownGoesFrazier]

The Great Gildersleeve?

[lavenderblue19]

Sorry, not that one. The tv show was decades after the 3 films.

 

Actor was great in comedy and drama

[LiamCasey]

Was the movie actor Clifton Webb?

 

He played Mr. Belvedere in the movies *Sitting Pretty*, *Mr. Belvedere Goes To College* and *Mr. Belvedere Rings The Bell* in the late 40s and early 50s.

 

And, in the late 80s, there was the television show *Mr. Belvedere* with Christopher Hewett and Bob Uecker. As a baseball fan, the latter is why I remember this show.

[lavenderblue19]

Bingo! Clifton Webb and the Mr. Belvedere series of films and the TV show, that's what I was looking for. Wish there had more in that film series.

Loved Clifton Webb. *Sitting Pretty* is one of my most favorite comedies ever. Great, Thanks Liam, your thread

[LiamCasey]

These two movies were released in the same year, contain the same city name in their titles and include two actors who have a total of ten movies in common. What are the two movies and who are the two actors?

[LiamCasey]

Hint: Of the ten movies that these two actors had in common, the same character name appears in the title for eight of them.

[LiamCasey]

Hint: An eleventh movie with these two actors was in the works until the illness of one of the actors led that movie to be rewritten to replace that actor's character with another actor's character.

[lavenderblue19]

This question is making me dizzy. LOL - I keep thinking it might be a detective series of films, but The Saint, The Falcon, Philo Vance, Perry Mason, Charlie Chan do not seem to fit your clues. Is it a detective series?

[LiamCasey]

The eight movies where the same character name appears in the title for each are part of one of the series of detective movies that you list in your reply, lavender.

[lavenderblue19]

Liam, I'm not in the habit of partially answering a question posed or asking questions. My computer has a lot of problems for wks now. Power surges in my area makes it almost impossible for me to do much research. What I know offhand is that Tom Conway (George Sanders brother) took over the role of The Falcon. Tom was in 10 of those films (that much I checked) as far as another actor to appear with him in 8 of the films, I know that Edward Gargan was in quite a few of those films. That's about all I can think of right now without a lot of checking. Maybe someone else can take my info if it's correct and answer the rest.

[LiamCasey]

Computer problems? Been there, done that!

 

It is not The Falcon.

 

The two actors play father and son in the eight movies where the same character name appears in the title for each.

 

Edited by: LiamCasey on Aug 29, 2013 10:39 AM

[lavenderblue19]

Take your pick Warner Oland and Keye Luke ( as #1 son) or Sidney Toler (took over Warner's role) and Sen Yung as #2 son ????/ in the Charlie Chan series ????//

[LiamCasey]

Warner Oland and Keye Luke are, indeed, the two actors. Now what are their two movies which were released in the same year and had the same city name in their titles?

[lavenderblue19]

I misunderstood your question because I thought 2 films with the same place in the title would have related to the character the actor played. If not then how about *Charlie Chan in Shanghai* and *Shanghai* the Loretta Young, Boyer movie both 1935 films ???????/ As I told you, offhand I can't name those 2 films and I can't do research on my computer. However I do know of these 2 films. Please someone else just finish this one up, if my answers don't work out.

 

Edited by: lavenderblue19 on Aug 29, 2013 6:12 PM

[LiamCasey]

And those are the two movies, lavender! The thread is yours.

[lavenderblue19]

Thanks, Liam. Haven't got one at the moment

 

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[Kid Dabb]

Name the actor -

 

This actor must have liked his Hollywood (stage) first name alot because he used it as his character's name in 35 of his almost 200 films (which do not include reels where he played himself). He used his last name only once. He used his nickname 5 times. An odd fact: he used his stage first name in every one of his 1935 films.

 

Long versions of the name don't count, e.g. Kenny for Ken, must be Ken.

[Kid Dabb]

An academy award winning actor, he also produced and directed. To receive one of his awards he was escorted by an armored personnel carrier, on which he rode.

 

Edited by: Kid_Dabb on Oct 6, 2013 4:54 PM - for clarification

[Emgee66]

Buster Keaton?

[Kid Dabb]

Not Buster Keaton

 

He was also referred to as "the biggest fraud in history".

 

Please reread the previous clue - there was an error I corrected.

[Kid Dabb]

Please note error correction of second clue - my apologies

 

Name the actor - (it is not Buster Keaton)

 

This actor must have liked his Hollywood (stage) first name alot because he used it as his character's name in 35 of his almost 200 films (which do not include reels where he played himself). He used his last name only once. He used his nickname 5 times. An odd fact: he used his stage first name in every one of his 1935 films.

 

Long versions of the name don't count, e.g. Kenny for Ken, must be Ken.

 

(Edited to correct an error - not an academy award winning producer)

An academy award winning actor, he also produced and directed. To receive one of his awards he was escorted by an armored personnel carrier, on which he rode.

 

He was also referred to as "the biggest fraud in history".

[Kid Dabb]

This actor was known for his westerns.