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Many great supporting actors are in just the movies mentioned in this thread. How about great supporting actresses? I nominate a few and invite nomination of others: Eve Arden, Agnes Morehead, Joan Blondell, Lee Patrick.

Remake of Witness for the Prosecution actors were Ralph Richardson and Deborah Kerr
 
The WWII movie They Were Expendable was based on real live events. The person the main character was based on was a PT boat skipper who was a Medal of Honor winner and rose to Admiral in his Navy career.

Name the Admiral, the actor who played him in the movie and for a bonus what did the actor and the admiral have in common.
 
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NY Fan said:
Many great supporting actors are in just the movies mentioned in this thread. How about great supporting actresses? I nominate a few and invite nomination of others: Eve Arden, Agnes Morehead, Joan Blondell, Lee Patrick.

Remake of Witness for the Prosecution actors were Ralph Richardson and Deborah Kerr
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How about Ruth Donnelly?
 
CajunHusky said:
The WWII movie They actualWere Expendable was based on real live events. The person the main character was based on was a PT boat skipper who a Medal of Honor winner and rose to Admiral in his Navy career.

Name the Admiral, the actor who played him in the movie and for a bonus what did the actor and the admiral have in common.
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This film seemed to be always running whenever I visited the Philippines years ago. You must be thinking of Brick - Robert Montgomery - but don't know the real life Admiral on who he was based.
 
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NY Fan said:
This film seemed to be always running whenever I visited the Philippines years ago. You must be thinking of Brick - Robert Montgomery - but don't know the real life Admiral on who he was based.
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Vice Admiral John Bulkeley.

Robert Montgomery was also a PT boat skipper during WWII, later serving on a destroyer at Normandy. Bulkeley also served at Normandy.
 
What movie actor served in the US Navy during WWII and was awarded the Silver Star ending his service at the rank of Captain in the US Navy?
 
veryolddog said:
What movie actor served in the US Navy during WWII and was awarded the Silver Star ending his service at the rank of Captain in the US Navy?
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Stumped, who? I hope we don't lose this thread given the Dorka transfer announcement.
 
NY Fan said:
Stumped, who? I hope we don't lose this thread given the Dorka transfer announcement.
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Can't claim credit for it since I googled it but ....

Douglas Fairbanks Jr ... served as a founding member/organizer of "Beach Jumpers" ended the war as a Navy Captain.

Another actor served with Wild Bill Donovan's OSS working behind the lines with partisans in Italy and the Balkans.
 
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CajunHusky said:
Can't claim credit for it since I googled it but ....

Douglas Fairbanks Jr ... served as a founding member/organizer of "Beach Jumpers" ended the war as a Navy Captain.

Another actor served with Wild Bill Donovan's OSS working behind the lines with partisans in Italy and the Balkans.
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Sterling Hayden.
 
veryolddog said:
Sterling Hayden.
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I just knew you would know that one!

I particularly liked the part where he was medically discharged from the army during the war and then enlisted in the Marines under a different name.
 
darkstar1 said:
I only remember Robert Taylor from Bataan.
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My mom's favorite knock-knock joke:

Knock-knock
Who's there?
Robert Taylor who?
Robert Taylor, go to jail
 
Many Hollywood actors served in the military during WWII. Name what Branch and what they did.

Clark Gable
Tyrone Power
Jimmy Stewart
Glenn Ford
Charles Bronson (Charles Buchinski)
Charlton Heston
 
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Waquoit said:
Stunned the poster with a Ferrari avatar/handle was all over Morricone.
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Ennio Morricone arguably the best movie score writer of all time. The Geno Auriema of movie score writers if you will!
 
ed4ourgirls said:
"Fury" - the only star I remember is Spencer Tracey.

I'll give you another one. Two films released in 1931 became horror classics. Name
the films and (tougher) name the actor that had a featured role in both films.
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Total guess. Bela Lugosi Dracula and Frankenstein. And the wonderful Plan 9 from Outer Space.
 
veryolddog said:
Warner Bros had a nice group of folks that would show up in lots of their movies. During the 30's, Jack Warner hired many actors that ran to the USA after Hitler took power and before he overran Europe. The movie "Casablanca" was loaded with them. Can you name a few of them?
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Conrad Veidt, S Z (“Cuddles”) Sakall, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Madeleine LaBeau
 
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veryolddog said:
What movie actor served in the US Navy during WWII and was awarded the Silver Star ending his service at the rank of Captain in the US Navy?
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Just a guess but I’ll say Robert Montgomery. If not Montgomery then maybe Eddie Albert or Ernest Borgnine? I know all of them saw action.
 
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CONN78SEJ said:
Just a guess but I’ll say Robert Montgomery. If not Montgomery then maybe Eddie Albert or Ernest Borgnine? I know all of them saw action.
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It was Douglas Fairbanks Jr. He was also wounded in action and was awarded the Silver Star. This also was mentioned above. They had some brave guys from Hollywood in those days.
 
veryolddog said:
It was Douglas Fairbanks Jr. He was also wounded in action and was awarded the Silver Star. This also was mentioned above. They had some brave guys from Hollywood in those days.
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Yes they did. Thanks, didn’t know about DF. Eddie Albert should have gotten the MOH for what he did.
 
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