| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This gravelly voiced playwright & actor rose to fame in the 1980s with his "Torch Song Trilogy" Harvey Fierstein |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This actor/playwright won a Tony for "August: Osage County" & has been seen in "Homeland" & "Ford v Ferrari" Tracy Letts |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Martin McDonagh moved from theater to film, using this Irish actor as his alter ego in "Seven Psychopaths" Colin Farrell |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: His father, James O'Neill, was a 19th century actor whose famous role was the Count of Monte Cristo Eugene O'Neill |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Jeff Daniels wrote "Escanaba in da Moonlight", a "super Yooper comedy" set on this state's Upper Peninsula Michigan |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In 2004 he won an Oscar for "Mystic River" & appeared off-Broadway in his own play "Embedded" Tim Robbins |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $600: This Englishwoman called her "Shakespeare for My Father" a play about her father (Sir Michael) & her search for him Lynn Redgrave |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Her husband Jerry Stiller made a video appearance in her 1999 comedy "Down the Garden Paths" Anne Meara |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: In 2004 this author of "True West" returned to the stage, acting in "A Number", a play about human cloning Sam Shepard |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $200: 20 years before "Murphy Brown", her play "The Freezer" was named one of "the Best Short Plays of 1968" Candice Bergen |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Jason Miller wrote & starred in a 1997 play about this actor nicknamed "The Great Profile" John Barrymore |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $600: (Hi. I'm Paula Cale of Providence.) I originated the role of Suzanne in the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile", written by this "wild & crazy guy" Steve Martin |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Now best remembered as a playwright, in his day he was famous for playing the ghost of Hamlet's father (himself) William Shakespeare |
| #4296, aired 2003-04-14 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This British actress seen here based the heroine of her play "The Mandrake Root" on her mother, Rachel Kempson Lynn Redgrave |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $200: He co-wrote the play "Foxfire" with Susan Cooper & co-starred in it with his wife, Jessica Tandy Hume Cronyn |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $400: When he starred in his own play "Le Misanthrope" in 1666, his wife Armande Bejart was his leading lady Moliere |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $600: This "Blithe Spirit" played a character known as the Witch of Capri in the Taylor-&-Burton film "Boom!" Noel Coward |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $800: He acted in community theater before writing hit plays like "Glengarry Glen Ross" David Mamet |
| #2887, aired 1997-03-04 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Native country of Emlyn Williams, who starred in his own plays "Night Must Fall" & "The Corn is Green" Wales |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Renee Taylor, who plays Fran Drescher's mom on this sitcom, writes plays with her husband Joseph Bologna The Nanny |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This movie "Jerk" won 2 Outer Critics Circle Awards for his 1995 play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" Steve Martin |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $600: She wrote her play "One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger" 1 year before starring in "The Poseidon Adventure" Shelley Winters |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $800: In 1995 this wife & comedy partner of Jerry Stiller debuted her first play, "Afterplay" Anne Meara |
| #2878, aired 1997-02-19 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This co-star of "Jaws" & "The Sting" adapted the play "The Man in the Glass Booth" from his own novel (Robert) Shaw |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: John Osborne's play "The Entertainer" was written for this actor who played Archie Rice in it Laurence Olivier |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: His father, actor James O'Neill, toured for years in the stage version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1791, aired 1992-05-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: An actor as well as an author, he played the role of Orgon in his own "Tartuffe" Molière |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: This actor-playwright played Dolly Parton's husband in "Steel Magnolias" Sam Shepard |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $100: 2 of his fellow actors compiled the 1st folio of his works, published in 1623, 7 years after his death William Shakespeare |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Michael V. Gazzo, who wrote "A Hatful of Rain", played a gangster in this 1974 Robert De Niro sequel Godfather II |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $300: This patriarch of the Redgrave family dramatized Henry James' story, "The Aspern Papers" (Sir) Michael (Redgrave) |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $400: He acted in England under the name David Baron before writing plays like "The Birthday Party" (Harold) Pinter |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Urbane Englishman heard here singing a song he wrote for one of his musicals:
I believe that since my life began, the most I've had is just a talent to amuse Noel Coward |
| #426, aired 1986-04-28 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: He added concept of 3rd actor to Greek tragedy &, at 28, beat Aeschylus in dramatic competition Sophocles |
| #348, aired 1986-01-08 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: This playwright & actor portrayed Colonel Chuck Yeager, not Alan Shepard, in "The Right Stuff" Sam Shepard |
| #334, aired 1985-12-19 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: English character actor & dramatist waiting to interview Indira Gandhi when she was shot Peter Ustinov |
