Also in The Godfather by SheahanJ

Champion(s):

helitzur


Runner(s)-Up:

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Quiz Description

A series of questions about the other accomplishments of actors who had roles in the Godfather movies. Please note that although I've tried to avoid traps, the RTFQ quotient of these questions in unavoidably high-- so take care to check whether the question is asking for the name of an actor, character, or movie/show.

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Questions:

The christening scene at the climax of The Godfather is notable for featuring two future Academy Award winners. One of them, of course, is Al Pacino. What other future Oscar winner played the baby?

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SOFIA COPPOLA

What actor was the third of three men to portray Mr. Freeze in the 1960s -- following George Sanders and Otto Preminger-- thus making him the only actor to have served as an antagonist to both Michael Corleone and Adam West's Batman?

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ELI WALLACH

An actor who played a major role in the first Godfather movie famously claimed to be the nephew of the real-life leader of one of the mafia's Five Families. The actor was controversially fired from his role during pre-production of The Godfather Part II, while the uncle would also be spectacularly terminated (in a manner of speaking) by John Gotti in 1985. Give the shared surname of both men.

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CASTELLANO (Richard and Paul)

Actor John Marley is best remembered for his role as Jack Woltz, the guy who wakes up next to the severed horse's head, but his biggest role in an Oscar-nominated movie came two years earlier. Name that movie, in which Marley played Phil Cavalleri, a working-class Rhode Islander and the father of one of the two lead characters.

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LOVE STORY

What influential theater director and longtime head of the Actors' Studio is credited with popularizing the method acting movement in the United States? His only Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actor, was for his role in The Godfather Part II.

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LEE STRASBERG

In Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist, Gastone Moschin (shown at right in the attached image) plays a fascist assassin sent to Paris to dispatch a political dissident. In the The Godfather series, Moschin plays a character on the other end of an assassination plot. Name that character, who was loosely based on real-life mobster Ignazio Lupo.

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DON FANUCCI

One of the internet's oldest memes involves the dead-or-not status of what former Barney Miller actor, who was 51 years old when he made his credited film debut in The Godfather? (As of Friday August 21 2015 12:50:18 PM PT his status is: alive).

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ABE VIGODA

One of the title characters of this 1960 film was portrayed by Richard Conte, who would go on to play Barzini, the principal antagonist of The Godfather. In its remake, the part of the antagonist would be played by a former protagonist of the The Godfather series. Given the common name of both films.

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OCEAN'S ELEVEN

In The Godfather Part III, the role of Dominic Abbandando, the Corleones' press secretary, was played by what comedian, best known for portraying a Vatican gossip columnist on Saturday Night Live?

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DON NOVELLO

Before his untimely death in 1978, actor John Cazale appeared in just five films, all of which would earn Best Picture nominations. Two of these were The Godfather Parts I and II, in which he played Fredo. Name any one of the others.

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THE CONVERSATION, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, THE DEER HUNTER

The late actor Alex Rocco's greatest claim to fame is getting shot in the eye (as Moe Green) in The Godfather. His second-greatest claim to fame, arguably, was providing the voice for what recurring character on The Simpsons?

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ROGER MEYERS, JR.

What actor, best known for his role as a comedic sidekick in several films of the 1980s and 90s, had his first major movie role as young Clemenza in the flashback sequences of The Godfather Part II?

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BRUNO KIRBY