Post a character from a movie & see if anyone knows the movie without using Google - Part 1

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(Guesses are always welcome)


1) Harry R. Caul (answered)

2) Delilah Fitzgerald

3) Nobody (answered)

4) Karen Flores

5) Outspan Foster

6) Goddart Bolt

7) Some Idiot

8) Bill Baker

9) John Ruth

10) Tommy O'Rourke

11) Sheriff "Chappy" Dent

12) Mikah Wallace

13) Ramona Zeck

14) Greg Marmalard (answered)

15) Roy Walley












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[Harker]

1. I previously nailed 1 and 3.

"The Conversation", and "Dead Man" plus "Ghost Dog."

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3. Ding! Ding!

You nailed it again.

[Harker]

5. It was tougher the first time! n/t

[JoseBalow]

2. #14 is Animal House

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4. Ding!

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6. Georges Melies

[Brother Buzz]

7. Harry Doyle

[VGNonly]

8. Private Snowball

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9. Full Metal Jacket?

[Jeebo]

26. Betty Gilpin's character in "The Hunt" ...

... or it might be from "Platoon".

-- Ron

[red dog 1]

42. Full Metal Jacket, right?

[VGNonly]

43. "Sir, it was pretty far

from book suppository building"

[Harker]

10. Sarah Packard.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Smiler Grogan

[Harker]

12. He kicked the bucket, literally...

in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."

[Brother Buzz]

13. Opening with Jimmy Durante, the first of many cameo appearances, was brilliant

Look, there's this dough see. There's all this dough. Three hundred and fifty g's! Do you hear what I'm saying? Three hundred and fifty g's! In the park. Rosita. Rosita Beach State Park. Just south of Daygo in Santa Rosita. It's in this box, buried under this...

...Buried under this big W. You'll see it! You'll see it under this big W. You can't miss it!

Kicks bucket

I remember like it was yesterday, my mom laughing hysterically when he kicked that busted rusty bucket

- - - -

"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" and "The Blues Brothers" were front loaded with wonderful cameo appearances. Can you think of any other film that even came close?

[JoseBalow]

14. My favorite cameo in that film was Jack Benny

The Player with Tim Robbins had a bunch of cameos, also a few older studio films in the style of Hollywood Canteen had a lot.

[Brother Buzz]

15. In my perfect world, he would have been driving the Maxwell.

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On edit: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson landed a role driving one of the taxies, a part more than just a cameo

[Harker]

17. My mom teared up laughing about Sylvester's dancing and his weepy driving.

I can't come close with certainty, but I have a vague recollection that "The Longest Day" had a lot of recognizable faces in brief roles - but I've not seen it in nearly forty years.

[JoseBalow]

16. Maria Tura

[JoseBalow]

81. Wife of that great, great Polish actor, Joseph Tura

You've probably heard of him.

[Mad_Dem_X]

18. Lorenzo St. Dubois

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20. The Producers

Dick Shawn's character "LSD"

(One of my all-time favorite movies)

[Mad_Dem_X]

23. Yep!

One of my faves, as well!

[Harker]

21. Sgt. Joe Gunn.

[Brother Buzz]

24. I know that one and laughed because I served with a SFC Joe Gunn

He was a platoon Sergeant of one of our two ADM platoons. That is, until he went nuts and started shooting arrows into his neighbor's front door. I was the Battalion Nuclear Surety clerk and was tasked with yanking his security clearances, a career ending action. The Army rolled him up and shipped him somewhere else.

Oh, I just learned that tank was powered by an air cooled rotary engine, which was totally counter-intuitive for desert deployment in my pea-brain

[Harker]

25. You're a font of fascinating facts, Buzz!

I just received the movie in question as an interlibrary loan so that I can dig in for a second viewing, having first seen it maybe fifteen years back.

[Brother Buzz]

28. I can can blame the wickedly cool YouTube algorithms

It all started when I was fleshing out the story on William S. Knudsen, and quickly found myself driving deep into the weeds; I learned to pack a lunch.

Good book!

Freedom’s Forge reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen—General Motors automobile magnate William “Big Bill” Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser—helped corral, cajole, and inspire business leaders across the country to mobilize the “arsenal of democracy” that propelled the Allies to victory in World War II. Drafting top talent from companies like Chrysler, Republic Steel, Boeing, Lockheed, GE, and Frigidaire, Knudsen and Kaiser turned auto plants into aircraft factories and civilian assembly lines into fountains of munitions. In four short years they transformed America’s army from a hollow shell into a truly global force, laying the foundations for the country’s rise as an economic as well as military superpower. Freedom’s Forge vividly re-creates American industry’s finest hour, when the nation’s business elites put aside their pursuit of profits and set about saving the world.

[Harker]

30. I'm adding that to my reading list, thank you.

My closest friend during my high school years had an eye for odd cars, and bought a '52 or '53 Henry J. that needed way too much work, and he mentioned that Kaiser had built Liberty ships. I had reason to think of Kaiser again when Edgar Kaiser, Jr., his grandson, bought my favorite football team.

[red dog 1]

22. Vadim Radtchenko

[BOSSHOG]

27. Imogen

[The Wizard]

29. General Garcia

[AllaN01Bear]

31. no idear.

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32. Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore

[Harker]

33. "Apocalypse Now."

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34. You got it.

"Charlie Don't surf!"

[Harker]

35. Wagner has never been the same. n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

36. Lureen Newsome

[Brother Buzz]

37. Ulysses Everett McGill

[VGNonly]

44. "OK, I'm with you fellers"

[Brother Buzz]

45. Say, any of you boys smithies?

Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wandering'?

[Brother Buzz]

38. Reverend Spike

[Brother Buzz]

77. Here's a clue:

Reverend Spike performed a "New Wave" outdoor Marin County wedding that didn't quite go as planned


Reverend Spike : Fellow beings, we are here to celebrate a wedding. Not one imposed by an uptight consumer society, which kills whales, builds nuclear reactors, but a real marriage. Will you touch each other please?

[Kate and Harvey hold hands]

Reverend Spike : Beautiful. Harv, can you relate to making a heavy commitment, to share your space with Kate, respecting her identity as a free being?

Harvey Holroyd : No.

Reverend Spike : No?

Harvey Holroyd : No. I promise to love, honor, and cherish Kate Linville Holroyd in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, forsaking all others, for as long as we both shall live.

[Harvey turns to Spike]

Harvey Holroyd : You asshole!

Reverend Spike : Kate, will you tell us where you're coming from?

Kate Linville Holroyd : I think Harvey took the words right out of my mouth.

Reverend Spike : All of 'em?

Kate Linville Holroyd : Including the asshole.

[red dog 1]

39. Cliff Booth

[Niagara]

67. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

Whew! It's getting hot in here!

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68. Ding!

[Niagara]

69. Yes!

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40. A.L.

Not "Al"

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41. Bill Baker

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46. Lt. Frank Watters

[JoseBalow]

47. Altar Keane

[JoseBalow]

82. Frenchy Fairmont

Directed by Fritz Lang

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48. Lt. Cmdr "Wedge" Donovan

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49. Detective Nordberg

[Mad_Dem_X]

50. The Naked Gun

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51. Ding!

Det. Nordberg was played by O.J. "Killer" Simpson

[JoseBalow]

52. Sam Francisco

[Brother Buzz]

53. Just spitballing here, but it sounds like character Kurt Russell encounters in a Chinatown alley...

in Big Trouble in Little China

[JoseBalow]

55. I don't think so

I have not watched that movie in many years, so I can't remember if there was a character by that name. But it's not the movie I was thinking of. Sam Francisco was a character in Alien Nation.

[Angleae]

54. Alien Nation

[JoseBalow]

56. Yes, that's it!

Samuel "Sam" Francisco was the alien Newcomer played by Mandy Patinkin. His detective partner James Caan was having none of that nonsense, so he called him George.

It was a pretty good movie that was turned into a popular TV series.

[red dog 1]

57. Allan Felix

[Niagara]

58. Sex Machine

Yes, this is the name of a movie character.

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59. Neil McCauley

[JoseBalow]

60. Victoria Brisbane

[JoseBalow]

83. Charles Montague

[JoseBalow]

61. Dix Handley

[JoseBalow]

84. Angela Phinlay

Directed by John Huston

[Niagara]

62. Wondermutt

1987 movie

[Angleae]

63. Summer School

Go get Bob.

[Niagara]

64. Excellent job, Angleae!

[red dog 1]

65. Bryan Mills

[Niagara]

66. Taken?

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71. You got it!

[Niagara]

72. Really? Holy Liam Neeson!

I won!

[red dog 1]

74. I've never seen Liam Neeson in a bad movie.

He's one of my favorite actors.

(Often overlooked but great Liam Neeson movie is "Leap of Faith" (1992) with Steve Martin)

[Niagara]

76. I'll look for the movie "Leap of Faith", red dog

Thank you for the suggestion.

[VGNonly]

70. Fraulien Ingeborg

[JoseBalow]

73. Max California

[red dog 1]

75. General Emilio Molina Vargas

[Niagara]

78. Merrill Hess

[VGNonly]

79. Apt. 406

[lpbk2713]

80. Number Two --- Delilah

Unforgiven.

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85. Ding!