What actor/actress comes to mind?

[laffite]

Betty White

next : played a captain

[Swithin]

Peter Ustinov

Next: Played a surgeon

[Cinemaspeak59]

Lew Ayres

Next: played a spy

[j.lunatic]

Next: played a spy

Greta Garbo

Next: played a pianist

[laffite]

Adrien Brody

next : played a businessperson

[Swithin]

Paul Douglas

Next: Silent film actor/actress who had a regular gig on an early TV sitcom

[laffite]

Stuart Irwin

next : played a sleazy role

[Dargo]

Malcolm McDowell

Next: left at the altar

[Swithin]

Anna Chancellor

Next: Balcony

[KayFrancis]

Fred and Leslie in Daddy Long Legs ( one of my favorite scenes in any musical, they are dancing and Fred singing Sonething's Gotta Give on the hotel balcony )

Next : fire escape

[Dargo]

Bobby Driscoll (in 'The Window')

Next: Eastern European actor or actress who had a successful Hollywood career

[KayFrancis]

Bela Lugosi

Next: another Eastern European actor or actress who had a successful Hollywood career

[Swithin]

Akim Tamiroff

Next: Jumped out of the window in a movie

[KayFrancis]

Ann Dvorak in Three On A Match

( Swithin, I'm still not 100% convinced , maybe 80% that
Agnes Moorehead jumped rather than stumbled)

Next : plays an innocent man on the run from the law in a classic pre 1970's movie

[Swithin]

Ann Dvorak in Three On A Match

( Swithin, I'm still not 100% convinced , maybe 80% that
Agnes Moorehead jumped rather than stumbled)

(I'm 100% sure she jumped. Fits the character, and most importantly, she pulls a metal handle off a drawer from a piece of furniture to break the window, after she says to Bogie: "You'll never prove anything to anyone, because I won't be there!" It's all crystal clear if you look at the scene again.)

Next : plays an innocent man on the run from the law in a classic pre 1970's movie

Robert Cummings

Next: Non-musician plays an instrument in a movie, or at least appears to