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Film and Television Characters

No. Question Answer 1 Cillian Murphy plays Thomas Shelby in what BBC period gangster drama? Peaky Blinders 2 Rachel, Ross, Monica and Chandler are all characters in what US television series? 3 Pat Phoenix played what character in ‘Coronation Street’? Elsie Tanner 4 What star of ‘American Graffiti’ and ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ Richard Dreyfuss played marine biologist Matt Hooper in ‘Jaws’? 5 In ‘Star Trek’ Sarek and Amanda Grayson are the parents of which Mr Spock character? 6 played Vincent Vega in what film? Pulp Fiction 7 What member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band played Silvio Dante in Steve Van Zandt ‘’? 8 Who did play in the Fox television series ‘24’? Jack Bauer 9 Who is the longest serving and the only remaining original character not to Ian Beale have a break from EastEnders? 10 What phrase did the ‘Hill Street ’ character Sgt Phil Esterhaus always Let’s be careful out there end the introductory roll call to each week’s show with? 11 In the 1977 ‘Star Wars’ film who owns and pilots the Falcon? Hans Solo 12 Orson Welles, Ian McKellen, Nicol Williamson, and Michael Fassbender have all played what Shakespearean character in films? 13 In the medical drama ‘’ what English played the title character Hugh Laurie Dr ? 14 , Tom Quinn and Tessa Phillips were characters in what long-running BBC spy drama? 15 What Steve Coogan character is an inept broadcaster and tv personality? 16 What characters did Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw play in the () Bodie and Weekend Television series ‘The Professionals’? (Raymond) Doyle 17 Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan starred in the 1932 film Jane Parker ‘Tarzan the Ape Man’, what role did Maureen O’Sullivan play? 18 won a Best Actress Oscar for playing Jean Brodie in ‘The Violet Crawley, Dowager Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, but whom did she play in ‘’? Countess of 19 Born in 1901 what actor played Rhett in ‘Gone with the Wind’? Clark Gable 20 What actor played the Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in the 1979 tv version of Ian Richardson ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ and went on to play Francis Urquhart in BBC’s ‘House of Cards’? 21 In the 1970s BBC series of Poldark who played Demelza? 22 What award-winning actress played the grieving mother Mildred Hayes in Frances McDormand ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’? 23 played what role in the drama ‘The -Files’? Walter Skinner 24 In the film ‘Taxi Driver’ what character makes the “You Travis Bickle talkin’ to me?” speech? 25 Who won his only Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Charlie Allnut in Humphrey Bogart ‘The African Queen’?