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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.

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