Film and Television Characters

No. Question Answer 1 Cillian Murphy plays Thomas Shelby in what BBC period gangster drama? 2 Rachel, Ross, Monica and Chandler are all characters in what US television series? 3 Pat Phoenix played what character in ‘Coronation Street’? 4 What star of ‘American Graffiti’ and ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ played marine biologist Matt Hooper in ‘Jaws’? 5 In ‘Star Trek’ Sarek and Amanda Grayson are the parents of which character? 6 John Travolta played Vincent Vega in what Quentin Tarantino film? 7 What member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band played Silvio Dante in ‘The Sopranos’? 8 Who did Kiefer Sutherland play in the Fox television series ‘24’? 9 Who is the longest serving and the only remaining original character not to have taken a break from EastEnders? 10 What phrase did the ‘Hill Street Blues’ character Sgt Phil Esterhaus always end the introductory roll call to each week’s show with? 11 In the 1977 ‘Star Wars’ film who owns and pilots the Millennium Falcon? 12 Orson Welles, Ian McKellen, Nicol Williamson, Patrick Stewart and Michael Fassbender have all played what Shakespearean character in films? 13 In the medical drama ‘House’ what English actor played the title character Dr Gregory House? 14 Harry Pearce, 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 London Weekend Television series ‘The Professionals’? 17 Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan starred in the 1932 film ‘Tarzan the Ape Man’, what role did Maureen O’Sullivan play? 18 Maggie Smith won a Best Actress Oscar for playing Jean Brodie in ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, but whom did she play in ‘Downton Abbey’? 19 Born in 1901 what actor played Rhett Butler in ‘Gone with the Wind’? 20 What actor played the Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in the 1979 tv version of ‘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 ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’? 23 Mitch Pileggi played what role in the science fiction drama ‘The X-Files’? 24 In the Martin Scorsese film ‘Taxi Driver’ what character makes the “You talkin’ to me?” speech? 25 Who won his only Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Charlie Allnut in ‘The African Queen’?