| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $200: Bill Camp played the janitor who teaches a girl to play chess, on this streaming show The Queen's Gambit |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $400: The Olivier & Tony-nominated Colman Domingo plays Victor Strand on the AMC zombie spin-off show Fear the Walking Dead |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $600: You may know Fred Melamed from "The Morning Show", "Superstore" or this Disney+ show with the Scarlet Witch & family WandaVision |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $800: Lance Reddick played a cop on "The Wire" & on this Amazon Prime drama as Chief Irvin Irving Bosch |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CHARACTER ACTORS $1000: This veteran of TV comedy & time travel movies picks up a big gun in the 2021 action film "Nobody" (Christopher) Lloyd |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | JOHNNY GILBERT IS THE ACTION MOVIE CHARACTER $1000: "Servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius... husband to a murdered wife, & I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next" Maximus |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $400: John Mahoney came into our homes as Martin Crane, father of this sitcom title character Frasier |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | ACTORS WE MISS $1200: Tessio in "The Godfather", on the small screen he spun off his show "Fish" from a character he played on "Barney Miller" Abe Vigoda |
| #7624, aired 2017-11-02 | ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT TRAVELS THROUGH TIME $600: (Nancy O'Dell and Kevin Frazier of Entertainment Tonight present the clue.)
(Kevin) It's November 21, 1980, with an actors' strike pushing the TV season back, it's been 8 months since we saw this character get shot
(Nancy) Tonight, 80 million viewers around the country will finally find out who done it--
(Kevin) My money's on the sister-in-law J.R. |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: In this 2014 film Elle Fanning plays Aurora, put into a deep sleep by the title character who it turns out had her reasons Maleficent |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | ACTORS IN COMMERCIALS $800: A natural blonde, Morgan Smith goes redhead to play her character in ads for this fast food chain Wendy's |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | "M"ISCELLANY $800: Marlon Brando was one of the actors who used this approach of deep character identification method acting |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | GETTING INTO CHARACTER $200: For this WWII film Tom Hanks & the other actors in his squad had to endure a rigorous week of boot camp Saving Private Ryan |
| #5906, aired 2010-04-26 | INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO $800: (James Lipton delivers the clue.) He recounted how he himself named his "Gladiator" character; "Narcissus" just wouldn't work Russell Crowe |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | ONLY SMALL ACTORS $1000: Peter Dinklage didn't play the title character in this holiday film; he did come to blows with Will Ferrell, though Elf |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1000: This star of "XXX" was also the voice of the title character in 1999's "The Iron Giant" Vin Diesel |
| #3888, aired 2001-06-27 | SO YOU WANT TO BE IN MOVIES $400: For practice, many Hollywood actors memorize one of these long passages in a play spoken by only one character Soliloquy/monologue |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $200: In Adolphe Menjou's last film, he got cheered up by Hayley Mills as this optimistic little girl Pollyanna |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $400: He's the film & TV favorite seen here Brian Keith |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $600: Barry Fitzgerald was nominated for Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor Oscars as Father Fitzgibbon in this film Going My Way |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $800: Seen here, this woman from an acting family livened up many '90s movies Joan Cusack |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | CHARACTER ACTORS $1000: In 1972 this bug-eyed Brit seen in "Young Frankenstein" had his own TV "Comedy Machine" Marty Feldman |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | ACTORS & MOVIE ROLES $5,000 (Daily Double): The mysterious title character Ralph Fiennes played in this 1996 film was actually Hungarian The English Patient |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | TV's SUPPORTING ACTORS $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Gordon Clapp of NYPD Blue.) I won the 1998 Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for playing this character Greg Medavoy |
| #3297, aired 1998-12-29 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $100: In the 1998 TV movie "Dallas: War of the Ewings", another attempt was made on this Larry Hagman character's life J.R. Ewing |
| #3207, aired 1998-07-07 | TV ACTORS $200: On this series, William B. Davis plays a character called the Cigarette-Smoking Man The X-Files |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: As this film's title character, Adam Sandler serenades a pair of newlyweds with the song "Love Stinks" The Wedding Singer |
| #3093, aired 1998-01-28 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: In 1997 his character, Paul Buchman, became a dad Paul Reiser |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | TV ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: Harry Bratsburg is the real name of this character actor who played Colonel Potter on "M*A*S*H" Harry Morgan |
| #2573, aired 1995-11-08 | TV ACTORS & ROLES $200: On "The Andy Griffith Show", George Lindsey played Goober, this Jim Nabors character's cousin Gomer |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: In 1935 Laurence Olivier & John Gielgud alternated in the roles of Mercutio & this title character Romeo |
| #2249, aired 1994-05-19 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Warner Oland & Sidney Toler made their last film appearances playing this character Charlie Chan |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: She played a character based on herself in the Neil Simon-scripted film "Chapter Two" (Marsha) Mason |
| #2091, aired 1993-10-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $400: Appropriately, it was at Elsinore that John Gielgud played this title character in 1939 Hamlet |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | FAMOUS ACTORS $500: At age 61, this character actor made his film debut as Kasper Gutman in "The Maltese Falcon" Sydney Greenstreet |
| #1460, aired 1990-12-28 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $100: In 1937 one critic said Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile as this character and sank Cleopatra |
| #1322, aired 1990-05-08 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400: Chas. Fleischer provided the voice of Benny the Cab & the title character in this 1988 blockbuster Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | CANADIAN ACTORS $1000: This veteran character actor played Abraham Lincoln, Dodsworth & The Devil in "All That Money Can Buy" Walter Huston (father of John) |
| #1178, aired 1989-10-18 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $200: At the 1988 Emmy Awards he compared the character he played on "Family Ties" to Dan Quayle Michael J. Fox |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | ACTORS & ROLES $1000: Woody Allen played the title character, a lounge singer's manager, in this 1984 film "Broadway Danny Rose" |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | ACTORS & ROLES $600: Ron Perlman said this character is so "poetic...it's like play Hamlet every week" Vincent |
| #1092, aired 1989-05-09 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Surprisingly, Bob Hoskins wasn't nominated for an Oscar for his work with this animated title character Roger Rabbit |
| #933, aired 1988-09-28 | ACTORS & ROLES $400: On the final "Magnum P.I.", his character, Higgins again denied he was really Robin Masters John Hillerman |
| #933, aired 1988-09-28 | ACTORS & ROLES $800: Raymond Burr has played this character in 9 TV movies including "The Case of the Lady in the Lake" Perry Mason |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | ACTORS & ROLE $400: "Bewitched" character played by Dick York from '64-'69 & Dick Sargent from '69-'72 Darrin Stephens |
| #391, aired 1986-03-10 | ACTORS & ROLES $500: Half the time her character in "Ladyhawke" was a lady hawk Michelle Pfeiffer |
| #290, aired 1985-10-18 | ACTORS & ROLES $400: Character played by both Diana Ross & Judy Garland in separate movie musicals Dorothy |
| #271, aired 1985-09-23 | ACTORS & ROLES $100: Though he works in California, Lee Horsley's character shares name with this Texas town (Matt) Houston |
| #121, aired 1985-02-25 | ACTORS & ROLES $600: Title character in classic '22 documentary of Eskimo life Nanook (of the North) |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN: Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television Sherlock Holmes |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | '80s SITCOM CHARACTERS: Creator Gary David Goldberg wrote this Republican character as unsympathetic, but the actor made him lovable Alex Keaton |
| #5548, aired 2008-10-22 | THE EMMY AWARDS: A former Screen Actors Guild president, he's the only actor to win both comedy & drama Emmys for playing the same character Ed Asner |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | 1960s OSCAR NOMINATIONS: One of the 2 male actors nominated in the '60s for playing more than one character in the same film (1 of) Peter Sellers or Lee Marvin |
| #5100, aired 2006-11-10 | ACTORS & PLAYS: Robert Armin played the role of the fool in "As You Like It", in "Twelfth Night" & in this tragedy 1st published in 1608 King Lear |
| #3344, aired 1999-03-04 | TELEVISION ACTORS: Starting in 1984, he's played the same character continuously on 2 primetime shows over the last 15 seasons Kelsey Grammer (Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers & Frasier) |
| #484, aired 1986-10-16 | ACTORS AND ROLES: 2 stars who have portrayed author/reporter Carl Bernstein or a character directly based on him in film Jack Nicholson & Dustin Hoffman |
| #459, aired 1986-09-11 | ACTORS & ROLES: In a 3-year period, 2 actors won Oscars for playing this character in different films The Godfather |
| #63, aired 1984-12-05 | SHOW BUSINESS: Barrymore, Rathbone, Roger Moore & Larry Hagman are among 61 actors to play this character Sherlock Holmes |
