Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club discussion

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The mystery actor in question was once a gym guard in a Kentucky state correctional facility

#124 - William "Wee Wilie" Davis?

Wow, Betsy.....I think you got it.

Yes! Betsy nabs the cherries again

"Wee" Willie --former wrestler --is a 'heavy' in 'the Asphalt Jungle' (pictured above) among numerous other roles

All caught up! hurrah!

Terrific, Betsy. We have guessed 125 tough photos!!!!!

Well, except the 'Ted Del Corsio challenge'. That was pretty easy for you.

Jill wrote: "Terrific, Betsy. We have guessed 125 tough photos!!!!!"

Thanks, Jill. Now maybe I can concenetrate on finishing my 2 WWI books.

Then,, of course there was the Ivor Novello challenge, which never existed but got lots of my votes.

Time for some more picture quizzes, Feliks.

Feelin' restless huh?

Time out first for a new tallying up --

#90 Constance Collier (drama coach of the stars)
#91 Phil Brown (Yank blacklisted to career in GB)
#92 Harry Bowen (Astaire+Rogers, & King Kong)
#93 Harry C. Bradley (of Capra's stable)
#94 Harry Bellaver (thug from 'The Thin Man')
#95 Edgar Barrier (westerns & Othello star)
#96 Cyril Chamberlain (stuffy Brit)
#97 Vaughn Taylor (eyeglasses)
#98 John Comer (Brit roughneck)
#99 Fay Compton (Brit Shakespearian actress)
#100 Clyde Cook (Australian silent comic)
#101 Hoot Gibson (western star)
#102 Diana Coupland (from 'Doctor No')
#103 Charles Coleman (perennial butler)
#104 Helmut Dantine ('Casablanca')
#105 Joyce Compton (southern belle)
#106 Ring-Eye (neigh)
#107 Heinie Conklin (200+ films)
#108 Don Stannard (Brit action star)
#109 Joseph Crehan (400+ films)
#110 Kernan Cripps (ticket taker in 'Double Indemnity')
#111 Robert Cornthwaite (always plays eggheads)
#112 D'arcy Corrigan (torches and pitchforks)
#113 Ernest Cossart (perennial butler)
#114 Walter Coy (John Ford regular)
#115 Dick Crockett ('Operation Petticoat')
#116 Roland Curram ('Darling' co-star, 1965)
#117 Ken Curtis (John Ford regular)
#118 George Curzon (early Hitchcock)
#119 Esther Dale (early vocalist)
#120 Jack Warner (popular Brit star)
#121 Lawrence Dane (Canadian horror star)
#122 Frank Darien ('Grapes of Wrath')
#123 Dick Davalos ('Cool Hand Luke')
#124 William 'Wee Willie' Davis (wrestler)
#125 Charles Drake ('Harvey', Winchester '73)

Quiz #126! European!

Quiz #127, American

Quiz #128, American

Oh, I know #127 but it will take me a while to come up with his name

#128.....Richard Erdman?

Yes! Richard Erdman.

He played Barracks Chief Hoffy, in 'Stalag 17'

Good going, Jill. You're right about #127. Just can't think of his name.

I have no idea who #126 is altho' I haven't looked at him too closely. But we both know #127 but digging up his name is stumping me.

Any quizzo challenge is an actor/actress who either has a lengthy filmography (even if their face is not immediately recognizable) or, they have appeared somewhere in one-or-more significant films so that they are reasonably 'discoverable'.

I won't pose a 'complete unknown' actor without any clues to find them either by your visual memory or without some text hints to allow some deductive reasoning.

The quizzos are difficult but fair.

#127 - Francis De Sales?

no

#126 looks like one of the Seven Dwarves. Was he in American films?

I can't describe #126 without giving him away. Designating him as European, rather than as either American or Brit, means he appears in European produced films. Not France, either. If he or his films were French I would specify that. He (or his films) are therefore of mixed, mongrel origins from somewhere else in Europe.

Refer to what I mention above. Sharp-eyed American audiences must somehow possess reasonable familiarity with him or he would not be included in this quizzo. This holds true no matter where his films were produced. They were seen here in the States at some time or other; and became well-known pictures.

Again, the principle is: any actor listed here, either 'appears in many films but always goes unrecognized'; or, if he is in just a few films --then, they are really really famous titles.

Quiz #129. European but would be known to us from American-release films.

#129 - John Ericson?

Yes! A German actor.

He appears in two well-known westerns:
John Sturges' "Bad Day at Black Rock" and Sam Fuller's "Forty Guns"

#126 - Bruno Ganz?

I didn't know Ericson was German.

I have been looking for German actors for #126 as well. It could be Ganz but I passed him over which may have been a mistake if you are right.

no on Ganz

Let me try......this German actor was good looking when young but could be him as an older man.

#126 - Horst Frank?

no

Armin Mueller-Stahl - #126?

nuh-uh

The pics of "Snow White's dwarf" is taken from two hit movies of the mid-60's which soon became cultural icons. He had a minor role in both.

The actor is an Austrian, but the movies were not.

He has quite a lot of roles in European films but no others of any note released in America, as far as I can tell.

I have been looking in the wrong place......I figured he was German.

What about Spain? Spain is part of Europe last time I looked at a map.

(Egad I am so kind-hearted!)

#127 is a Hollywood stalwart. In the pic provided, he is a police official in a very famous crime movie.

I'm feeling very kindly this evening, I will admit that the earlier guess for #127, 'Francis De Sales', was a very close call. Ordinarly I wouldn't admit it. But only by the thinnest margin, was that dismissed.

Hmmmm......you don't count spelling do you but that wouldn't be the cause since that was the correct spelling. The existing pictures of #127 look exactly like Francis De Sales.

Quiz #130, American

Quiz #131; British

#130,.....Gene Evans?

Yes! Quick score, there

I'll toss out this freebie since #130 was nabbed so easily.

Quiz #132, American ---

#132........Stu Irwin? But I think that is probably wrong.

Correct! Stuart Erwin.

I was tossing that one to Betsy because he has numerous appearances on Perry Mason.

Yea, Jill.

No, I don't disqualify on spelling --I merely prod for the answer to be checked and resubmitted. In this case the answer is still wrong; but it's uncannily close 'in another sense'.