#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $800: "Austin Powers" director Jay Roach plays himself when this hit man-turned-actor lands a big audition Barry |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $2000: Ralph Fiennes struggles to direct an actor to say, "Would that it were so simple" in this Coen Brothers movie about making an epic Hail, Caesar! |
#8487, aired 2021-10-12 | WHO DIRECTED IT? $400: "Riding in Cars with Boys",
"Awakenings" (Penny) Marshall |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: His career as an actor-director has been largely a "rocky" one but also includes "The Expendables" (Sylvester) Stallone |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $800: Clint Eastwood transports cartel drugs in this 2018 film he also directed The Mule |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1200: He directed "Tropic Thunder"; Steve Coogan directed the film within that film (Ben) Stiller |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1600: As Variety would say, he toplined & helmed 2014's "A Million Ways to Die in the West" Seth MacFarlane |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $2000: "You should lay off those candy bars", Marlene Dietrich tells this great film auteur in "Touch of Evil" (Orson) Welles |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | DURABLE DIRECTORS $1600: "American Sniper" is the top-grossing movie directed by an octogenarian, this man who's also an actor Clint Eastwood |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: "Tropic Thunder"
(2008) Ben Stiller |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: "The Great Dictator"
(1940) Charlie Chaplin |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $600: "Antwone Fisher"
(2002) Denzel Washington |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $800: "Hamlet"
(1996) Kenneth Branagh |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1000: "One-Eyed Jacks"
(1961) Marlon Brando |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: "Hello Princess!" directed by & starring Roberto Benigni, this film was re-released in 1999 & dubbed in English Life is Beautiful |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: This actor considered running for president after directing himself in 1998's "Bulworth" Warren Beatty |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: Replacing Kubrick as the director of 1961's "One-Eyed Jacks" was an offer this actor could not refuse Marlon Brando |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: This director was back on screen playing a TV reporter in his 1999 film "Summer of Sam" Spike Lee |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: As a divorce attorney, director Danny DeVito narrated this 1989 comedy The War of the Roses |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: In 1997 this star of "Private Benjamin" made her directing debut with the TV movie "Hope" Goldie Hawn |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: This "Annie Hall" actress went behind the cameras for the 1995 family drama "Unstrung Heroes" Diane Keaton |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: This actor directed an animal onscreen & off in 1998's "The Horse Whisperer" Robert Redford |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500 (Daily Double): Like Olivier, this actor made his debut as a film director with Shakespeare's "Henry V" Kenneth Branagh |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: You might say director Charles Laughton had a "love-hate" relationship with this 1955 Robert Mitchum film The Night of the Hunter |
#3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DIRECTORS $800: This actor directed himself & wife Trish Van Devere in the 1974 film "The Savage Is Loose" George C. Scott |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: When his 1972 film "Beware! The Blob" was reissued, it was subtitled "The Movie J.R. Shot" Larry Hagman |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: He directed himself, dad Lloyd & brother Jeff in the TV movie "The Thanksgiving Promise" Beau Bridges |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: "A Bronx Tale", the first film directed by this "Taxi Driver" star, earned critical praise, not Bronx cheers Robert De Niro |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: This daughter of director John made her own directing debut with the TV movie "Bastard Out of Carolina" Anjelica Huston |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: Peter Ustinov directed the 1962 film version of this Herman Melville novel & played Captain Vere in it Billy Budd |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: 2 years after a riding accident left him paralyzed, he directed the HBO drama "In the Gloaming" Christopher Reeve |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: "Star Trek"'s Mr. Spock, he showed his comedy side with his direction of "Three Men and a Baby" (Leonard) Nimoy |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: He cast Debbie Reynolds as his "mother" in a 1996 film Albert Brooks |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: In 1990 he directed himself in the title role of "Dick Tracy" Warren Beatty |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: Forest Whitaker of "The Crying Game" made his directorial debut with this Whitney Houston film about 4 friends Waiting to Exhale |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: He wore a kilt & danced the Highland Fling when his film "Braveheart" premiered in Stirling, Scotland Mel Gibson |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: Before directing "The Brady Bunch Movie", Betty Thomas played officer Lucy Bates on this TV cop series "Hill Street Blues" |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $600: Penny Marshall's real first name is Carole; she was named for this film star of the 1930s Carole Lombard |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $800: He made his directing debut with the 1996 film "Losing Chase", which starred his wife, Kyra Sedgwick Kevin Bacon |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1000: This bald director who appeared in "Stalag 17" was the father of Gypsy Rose Lee's son Eric Otto Preminger |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: Before "Dead Man Walking" this actor made his directing debut with 1992's "Bob Roberts" Tim Robbins |
#2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: As an actor, this silent film director sometimes used the stage name Lawrence Griffith D.W. Griffith |
#1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: As an actor, this Vienna-born director was billed as "the man you love to hate" Erich von Stroheim |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | ACTORS AS DIRECTORS $600: This actor took over as director of "One-Eyed Jacks" when Stanley Kubrick left to make "Spartacus" Marlon Brando |
#1380, aired 1990-09-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Montreal-born actor who starred in all 5 "Star Trek" movies & directed "Star Trek 5" as well William Shatner |
#1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: In "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", this actor was easy to find; he was in the director's chair Leonard Nimoy |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: The 1st film he directed was "Psycho III", & he was "showered" with praise for his acting, too Anthony Perkins |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: Actor-playwright whose 1st film as a director, "Far North", starred his girlfriend, Jessica Lange Sam Shepard |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $600: Many of the films he directed starred his wife, Gena Rowlands John Cassavetes |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $800: He directed himself in the national tour of "Camelot" in 1986, 19 years after starring in the film Richard Harris |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1000: The 1st film Richard Benjamin directed was this '82 Peter O'Toole comedy about the early days of TV "My Favorite Year" |