Actors
Question: Charlie Chaplin is one of Britain’s best know actors. Where in London would you find the bronze statue of him?
Answer: Leicester Square
Question: Which British actor won an Oscar for his part in The Bridge over the River Kwai?
Answer: Sir Alec Guinness
Question: Which actress has won the most number of individual Oscars?
Answer: Katharine Hepburn She won four Oscars for Best Actress for Morning Glory, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond. She was nominated a further eight times.
Question: Who is the only actor to have been nominated for an Oscar eight times without ever winning an Oscar?
Answer: Peter O’Toole
Question: Who was the first black woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress?
Answer: Halle Berry
Question: By what name was Archibald Alec Leach, the Bristol-born British Hollywood actor who was famous for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting and sense of comic timing, better known?
Answer: Cary Grant
Question: Who plays Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider movies?
Answer: Angelina Jolie
Question: Which British film star who played Scarlett O’Hara in the film Gone with the Wind was married to Laurence Olivier?
Answer: Vivien Leigh
Question: By what name is Sir Maurice Micklewhite CBE better known?
Answer: Michael Caine
Question: Who is Warren Beatty’s famous sister?
Answer: Shirley Maclaine
Question: Which actress was in both the 60s and 90s versions of The Thomas Crown Affair?
Answer: Faye Dunaway
Question: By what name is the singer and actress Frances Gumm better known?
Answer: Judy Garland
Question: Name the highly decorated American World War Two soldier who starred as himself in the 1955 Hollywood film, To Hell and Back?
Answer: Audie Murphy
Question: Which famous actor is the great-granddaughter of a British Prime Minister?
Answer: Helena Bonham Carter Her great-grandfather was Herbert Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908-1916.
Question: The series of seven comedy films knon as the Road to … films starred Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and which other actor?
Answer: Dorothy Lamour
Question: Who played the title role in the film Shirley Valentine?
Answer: Pauline Collins
Question: Who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film Ghost?
Answer: Whoopi Goldberg