What actor/actress comes to mind?

[KayFrancis]

I guess you're thinking of Rock a Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody for Jerry Lewis ?

Thelma Ritter should have won Oscars but never did.She didnt get the credit she deserved

Next : film actor who starred in a nightime tv soap

[ziggy6708a]

Howard Keel
'Clayton Farlow' is a fictional character in the popular American television series "Dallas", played by Howard Keel from 1981 to 1991.


next: stage actor stars as a TV police detective

[Dargo]

next: stage actor stars as a TV police detective

Jerry Orbach

Next: reknown Broadway actress who only did a few movies

[KayFrancis]

next: stage actor stars as a TV police detective

Jerry Orbach

Next: reknown Broadway actress who only did a few movies

Ethel Merman

Next : actor was in a Hitchcock film later starred in a tv show

[Dargo]

Next : actor was in a Hitchcock film later starred in a tv show

John Forsythe or Bob Cummings (take your pick)

Next: Mercury Theatre member who would later star in a TV series

(...I was about to say "Mercury Theatre member who would later go on to do TV commercials for a wine company", but then figured that would pretty much narrow this down to one obvious guy) LOL

[Feinberg]

Next: Mercury Theatre member who would later star in a TV series

(...I was about to say "Mercury Theatre member who would later go on to do TV commercials for a wine company", but then figured that would pretty much narrow this down to one obvious guy) LOL

Agnes Moorehead.

Next: Jazz musician who often played himself.

[j.lunatic]

Next: Jazz musician who often played himself.

Cab Calloway

Next: Opera star who made several Hollywood movies.

[laffite]

Lauritz Melchior

Next : Punctilious type

[Feinberg]

Next : Punctilious type

Edna May Oliver

Next: Lord of the Manor

[laffite]

Laurence Olivier
("Rebecca")

Next: nondescript

[Dargo]

"Next: nondescript"

Donald Woods

Next: meddling roommate

[EP Millstone]

Next: meddling roommate

Walter Matthau as "Oscar Madison" in The Odd Couple.

Next: Jail bait

[LawrenceA]

Drew Barrymore (in any number of early 90s films)


next: subject of a biopic

[laffite]

Ronald Reagan (Grover Cleveland Alexander)


next : grotesque (or made to look grotesque for a role)

[Intrepid37]

John Mills in Ryan's Daughter

next: gloriously beaten to a pulp