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