What actor/actress comes to mind?

[j.lunatic]

Next- prim and proper

Franklin Pangborn

Next: blue collar

[KayFrancis]

William Bendix ( The Life of Riley)

Next : played a cattle rancher

[Swithin]

Sam Waterston

Next: Pockmarks

[KayFrancis]

Edward James Olmos, Richard Boone also comes to mind

Next : played a bus driver

[Dargo]

Jackie Gleason

Next: played a sewer worker...nah, too easy and maybe "too specific" here as well, huh ...and so how about instead...played a corporate ladder-climbing go-getter

[CinemaInternational]

Robert Morse (in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

Next: played a criminal who was executed (real or fictional)

[KayFrancis]

James Cagney he's executed in Angel's With Dirty Faces

Btw dargo, DeNiro played a bus driver in Bronx Tale , so there was more than 1 possible answer

Next : besides Lucy and Spring Byington, actress in films who later had a TV shlow

[laffite]

Donna Reed

next : actor (male) in films who later had a tv show

[Swithin]

Jimmy Durante

Next: Non-Mexican who played a Mexican in a black-and-white movie

[KayFrancis]

Charlton Heston. Touch of Evil

Next : Non Mexican actor played a Mexican in a color film

[Dargo]

Next : Non Mexican actor played a Mexican in a color film

Rod Steiger (in 'Duck, You Sucker' aka 'A Fistful of Dynamite'...good flick, btw...betcha thought I'd say Eli Wallach here, didn't ya)

oh and btw Kay...

Btw dargo, DeNiro played a bus driver in Bronx Tale , so there was more than 1 possible answer

Yes, I'm sure there were a number of other actors who played a bus driver somewhere along the line, as I didn't mean to imply that Gleason was the only one, nor that your next was in any way "too specific". However, can you name me another actor who was noted for playing a sewer worker other than Art Carney? And which was the reason I went with that "corporate ladder-climbing go-getter" one instead.

Next: actress playing the shy and retiring type

[CinemaInternational]

Dorothy McGuire

Next: A Wisecracking Supporting player

[j.lunatic]

Next: A Wisecracking Supporting player

Una Merkel

Next: A very well-dressed man

[laffite]

Paul Lucas

next : friendly demeanor

[Dargo]

Jimmy Stewart (of course especially so in 'Harvey')

Next: sourpuss