1. In one of his final films, this actor played a retired performer, who is making a final appearance at a drive-in theater where he encounters a disturbed gunman. This co-star of the film Targets portrayed Captain Hook in Leonard Bernstein's 1950 musical version of Peter Pan. The character of Jonathan Brewster becomes enraged whenever people say he resembles this performer, a recurring joke in the play (*) Arsenic and Old Lace. In a 1935 film, this actor's character proclaims "we belong dead" after seemingly killing himself and his bride, who finds him hideous. For 10 points, name this actor, the original voice of the Grinch, who played Frankenstein's Monster in the 1931 film. ANSWER: Boris Karloff [or William Henry Pratt]
2. Wikipedia claims this actor was the first to receive a million dollar salary, for playing Julius Caesar in a film version of Caesar and Cleopatra. This actor plays the man that the title character is talking to when he blows out a match, beginning a famous jump cut to the setting sun in Lawrence of Arabia. He supposedly did an impression of frequent co-star Bette Davis when playing the effeminate Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood. This man's character instructs his subordinates to (*) "round up the usual suspects" and walks off with Rick Blaine at the end of a movie. For 10 points, name this actor who plays the corrupt police captain in Casablanca. ANSWER: (William) Claude Rains
3. This actress played Cora, a general store owner who serves great coffee in a series of Maxwell House ads. Gale Sondergaard turned down the role this performer is best known for after not being allowed to look glamorous. In that role, this actress suffered serious burns after a trap door failed to open on time. This actress, who played Morticia's mother on a few episodes of (*) The Addams Family, appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in an effort to remove childhood fears of her. For 10 points, name this actress who said "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!" as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. ANSWER: Margaret (Brainard) Hamilton
4. The one-act Tennessee Williams play The Last of My Solid Gold Watches was written for and dedicated to this actor. This actor played Thackeray in Devotion, a film biopic of the Bronte sisters. An accomplished stage performer, he made his screen debut at age 61 in a role he was Oscar nominated for. In that role, this actor's character "likes talking to a man who likes to talk" and keeps telling the protagonist, (*) "by gad, sir, you are a character." This actor played a man who employs such cronies as Wilmer Cook and Joel Cairo. For 10 points, name this actor who played the Fat Man in The Maltese Falcon. ANSWER: Sydney (Hughes) Greenstreet
5. For playing numerous villainous roles, this actor was billed as "the man you love to hate." This man was fired from a film never released theatrically by the star's lover, Joseph P. Kennedy. He suggested clips from that movie, Queen Kelly, be shown in a movie in which he received an Oscar nomination for. This man's character is forced to shoot the similarly aristocratic Boeldieu in the (*) Renoir film Grand Illusion. This man played a version of himself, as a once-famous silent filmmaker reduced to being Norma Desmond's butler in Sunset Boulevard. For 10 points, name this Austrian-American actor and director, best known for making the 1924 film Greed. ANSWER: Erich (Oswald Hans Carl Maria) von Stroheim
6. This actress' first major role was as the murder victim in the Mike Hammer film Kiss Me Deadly. She once posed nude, covered only in lettuce, for a 2009 PETA advertisement. This actress played the wife of the closeted homosexual coach in a film in which her character has an affair with a high school senior named Sonny. This woman, who won an Oscar for The Last Picture Show, plays a character who offers a man "warm milk" or "Ovaltine" before bed in a film in which (*) horses whinny at the mere mention of her name. For 10 points, name this actress who played Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein. ANSWER: Cloris Leachman
7. This actor's niece is the historian who wrote the extremely influential article "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," Joan Scott. In order to star in a Tennessee Williams play, Camino Real, this man turned down the part played by Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity. While dying in one film, this man's character asks "You came back...why?...a man like you...why?" In another movie, this actor's character advises (*) "when you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk." This man, who played the villain in The Magnificent Seven, played Tuco in a Sergio Leone film. For 10 points, name this actor who played the "ugly" in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. ANSWER: Eli (Herschel) Wallach
8. This actor's folk music group, The Tarriers, recorded a song called "The Banana Boat Song" that came out the same year as the Harry Belafonte song of the same name. He temporarily replaced Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau for a poorly received 1968 movie. In a famous jump scare, this actor's character emerges from a darkened apartment to grab the leg of a blind woman played by Audrey Hepburn. The villain in (*) Wait Until Dark, this actor's character advises a younger man to "fuck a lot of women" while riding in a VW van. That character of this man is said to be "in the trunk of our car" by a girl he taught how to dance to the tune of "Super Freak." For 10 points, name this actor who played the grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine. ANSWER: Alan (Wolf) Arkin
9. This actress played a character who uses the Spear of Destiny to release a demonic figure from the body of a police detective. In another role, the Buddy Holly song "Everyday" plays as this performer's character drives past many children on Halloween. In that role, this woman plays a character who encourages her disturbed son to take up archery. Another film ends with this actress collapsing to the ground after hearing an enemy say (*) "I'm Shiva, the god of death." This star of We Need to Talk About Kevin won an Oscar for playing corrupt lawyer Karen Crowder in the film Michael Clayton. For 10 points, name this Scottish actress who played the White Witch in the Narnia films. ANSWER: Tilda Swinton [or Katherine Matilda Swinton]
10. In one film, this actor adopted a bad English accent to play a villain who states "You want to kill me? Well, take a number and get in line." This actor has claimed that his favorite film role ends with his character taken away in an ambulance as the driver asks him "wanna see something really scary?" In another role, this actor says he cannot endorse "an enterprise which is as fraught with genuine peril as I believe this one to be." This actor, the main villain in (*) Cliffhanger, appeared in the film version of the Twilight Zone episode about the man who sees a gremlin on an airplane. This actor played the diminutive ruler of Duloc in an animated film. For 10 points, name this actor who played the anti-rock preacher in Footloose and who voiced Lord Farquaad in Shrek. ANSWER: John (Arthur) Lithgow
11. An oft-cited legal case involves this actress suing Fox after the studio broke a promise to feature her in the film Bloomer Girl. In her book, What If, she said that Stephen Hawking's ALS helped to "free his mind." In a film, this woman's character masturbates in front of a man who told her "I like to watch," not knowing that he meant watching television. Her character ends another film by saying (*) "shut up and deal" to a man who says "I absolutely adore you." This actress, the older sister of Warren Beatty, played an elevator operator having an affair with "Bud" Baxter's boss. For 10 points, name this actress noted for her New Age beliefs, the star of The Apartment and Terms of Endearment. ANSWER: Shirley MacLaine [accept Shirley MacLean Beaty before "Beatty"]
12. In a film, this actor's character is responsible for the murder of a priest with the words "IT'S A WONDERFULL LIFE" written at the crime scene. This actor played an alien mercenary who joins the Maquis as an outlet for his murderous tendencies during a Star Trek: Voyager arc. In a film series, this actor's character is last seen possessing the body of a woman played by his daughter, Fiona, and driving off with his Jennifer Tilly played lover, Tiffany. This actor, who played the (*) Gemini Killer in The Exorcist III, was replaced in a 2019 film by Mark Hamill as Charles Lee Ray, a killer whose soul ends up in a "Good Guys" doll. For 10 points, name this actor who voices Chucky in the Child's Play films. ANSWER: Brad Dourif [or Bradford Claude Dourif]
13. In a film, this actor's character says the best day of his life was his wedding day, with the worst day being every day since. In another film, his character heats up ice cubes to make "hot ice" to get "the best of both worlds" for conditioning. This man voiced Dilbert in the 1999 animated series. This actor directed a film in which young Henry becomes a star (*) pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, Rookie of the Year, and appears in the film as the team's pitching coach. In his most notable role, his character steps on a nail with his bare foot as part of the booby traps set up by Kevin. For 10 points, name this actor who played Marv in the first two Home Alone films. ANSWER: Daniel (Jacob) Stern
14. This actress played a woman who tries to use Facebook to woo her choirmaster in the short film Friend Request Pending. In 2008 this performer replaced Jeremy Irons as the narrator of the Disney World attraction Spaceship Earth. She has a cameo as a noblewoman being robbed by Jack Sparrow in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. In another film, this actress' character recites the poem "Ulysses" in front of a public hearing before a gunman interrupts the proceedings. This actress won a (*) Best Supporting Actress Oscar for about an eight-minute role playing Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. For 10 points, name this English actress who played M in the James Bond series. ANSWER: Dame Judi Dench [or Judith Olivia Dench]
15. In 1987 this man played the historical filibuster William Walker in the movie Walker. In another role, this actor told a woman "you bitch, you never backed down from anything in your life! Now, fight! Fight! Fight!", as he tries to give CPR to his estranged wife. This actor played a character who sacrifices himself to save a group trying to escape from the lost city of Cibola. Another of his characters remarks that he is "The Creator" of a product that "gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions" and utters commands like (*) "Cue the sun." This star of The Abyss and the antagonist of National Treasure: Book of Secrets played the head of the team who responds to the warning "Houston, we have a problem." For 10 points, name this actor who played Christof, the creator of The Truman Show, and also Mission Control Director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13. ANSWER: Ed Harris [or Edward Allen Harris]
16. This actor played an electrician who cluelessly refers to electrical outlets as "the holes." In another role, after his character is told that animals have no reason to fear humans, he shocks one and notes "Now they do." This man, who guested as "Slippery Pete" in "The Frogger" episode of Seinfeld, plays a mercenary who is ripped apart by a pack of (*) compys in The Lost World. This actor played a relatively silent man who enjoys eating at Pancakes House and who kills his partner after the latter rejects a suggestion to "split" a car. This man played a killer who is arrested after he puts the corpse of his partner in a woodchipper. For 10 points, name this Swedish actor who played Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo. ANSWER: Peter Stormare [or Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm]
17. This actor was on the high school football team with murdered civil rights activist Mickey Schwerner. In an early film role, he portrayed Marcel, the chauffeur of the James Coco played Hercule Poirot parody in Murder by Death. This actor's character reacts negatively to the quote "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgments," not knowing it is a quote from his own character. In another role, his character asks (*) "have you a valediction, boyo?" after surprisingly shooting one of his own police detectives. This actor's character blasts the song "Magic Carpet Ride" during Earth's first warp drive flight in Star Trek: First Contact. This man, the villainous police captain in L.A. Confidential, says "that'll do, pig--that'll do" to an animal in a 1995 film. For 10 points, name this actor who played Farmer Hoggett in Babe. ANSWER: James (Oliver) Cromwell
18. A woman playing this performer amusingly says she has "a COU-pon" for a pizza in a 2019 SNL sketch about "continuity errors." Evan Adams' tragic inability to answer a question on one of this woman's characters proved unfortunate in the CO Trash 2013 finals. This woman won an Academy Award for playing a performer who loses an Academy Award in a 1978 movie. One of Gwyneth Paltrow's first film roles was as the teenage version of this actress in a Steven Spielberg film. This woman played both the disapproving Reverend Mother in the (*) Sister Act films and "Grandma Wendy" in Hook. In another film, her character recommends that a boy play the position of "seeker" on the quidditch team. For 10 points, name this English actress who played Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter series and the Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey. ANSWER: Dame Maggie Smith [or Margaret Natalie Smith]
19. In the Josie and the Pussycats movie, this actor hosts an instructional video about subliminal messages. In The Simpsons episode "See Homer Run," Homer takes Lisa to see one of this actor's films, the fictional Princess Rock Star. In one of the very few movies this actor actually "starred" in, he plays dental supply company employee Andy Fiddler, who is confused for an ATF agent. This performer played a man who literally has "two left feet" and owns a (*) terrier named Winky. This man starred with Samuel L. Jackson in The Man and plays the male winner of the dog show in Best in Show. In another film, this actor's character is shocked to discover his son having sex with a dessert. For 10 points, name this actor who played Jim's dad in all of the American Pie movies. ANSWER: Eugene Levy
20. This actor played the circus owner whose death prompts the young ape Caesar to plan revolution in the original Planet of the Apes series. In the film Neptune's Daughter, this actor was the first to sing the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Like Jack Elam, he conceived of "five stages of an actor," beginning and ending with "who is ____?" After this actor's character takes a hostage in a film, the protagonist also takes a hostage, saying "two can play at that game!" In that film, this actor's character dies after falling off a building and (*) getting run over by a bus, steam roller, and marching band. The villain in the original Naked Gun film, this man played a villain who threatens to chase his nemesis "'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares maelstrom." For 10 points, name this Mexican actor who played the title character in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. ANSWER: Ricardo (Gonzalo Pedro) Montalban (y Merino)