Famous Film Lawyers by SchwartzD

Champion(s):

CastagnaP


Runner(s)-Up:

BradburnA


Quiz Description

Lawyers are routinely portrayed on the silver screen. Some of these big screen lawyers are based on real-life lawyers while others are fictionalized. This quiz will test your knowledge of those famous film lawyers -- either the actors who portray them, the characters themselves or the films. Note: the use of the word "actor" can denote a male or female actor. And all are theatrical releases, not made-for-TV movies. Some (but definitely not all) of the questions are based on the American Bar Association Top 25 Legal Movies of All Time list which I commend to you as well. http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_25_greatest_legal_movies/

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1 CastagnaP 460 97 15
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2 BradburnA 390 92 15
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3 CrocettoR 355 82 15
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3 Neil 355 82 15
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3 BarthR 355 82 15
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6 elfm 340 72 00
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7 MoyseyC 295 67 00
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8 PruettC 290 62 00
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9 AdamKing 245 55 15
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9 RobinJRichards 245 55 15
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11 PatschakB 240 47 00
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12 CorlissM 220 42 00
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13 randalleng 190 37 00
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14 ConnorA 180 32 15
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15 TsujiG 140 27 00
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16 brando3429 130 20 00
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16 FrostL 130 20 00
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18 Consigliari 120 12 00
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19 Bloo 50 5 00
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19 RaiaB 50 5 00
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Questions:

In the movie, My Cousin Vinny, Joe Pesci plays fictional attorney Vinny. What is Vinny's LAST NAME?

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Gambini

Gene Hackman may have been a basketball coach and a evil supergenious but NAME TWO movies since 1989, where Hackman portrayed a lawyer. (Note: He may have had a law degree in other movies, but did not play a lawyer).

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Class Action, The Firm, Narrow Margin (edited at 7:00 pm, February 1, 2016 (PST))

In the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, which is a fictionalized version of the Scopes Trial, Spencer Tracy plays the equivalent of Clarence Darrow. What was his character's name?

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Henry Drummond

In the 1993 film In The Name of the Father, based loosely, on the true story of the Guildford Four wrongfully accused of an IRA bombing of a British pub in 1974, WHICH ACTOR played the hard-working defense lawyer, Gareth Peirce

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Emma Thompson

In the 2001 film, I Am Sam, the character played by Sean Penn seeks counsel after child welfare authorities have taken his seven year old. WHICH ACTOR portrayed his defense attorney?

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Michelle Pfieffer

NAME THE MOVIE in which the following could be deemed to be a fair plot synopsis: A Harvard-trained attorney journeys to Washington, D.C., to have his/her say about animal rights, but is ignored by every politician he/she encounters and quickly learns that the White House can be even tougher to navigate than the Ivy League. Finally, the attorney makes the acquaintance of sympathetic representative, who helps the young lawyer get his/her foot in the door of Congress. Unfortunately, that attorney still has to convince the entire legislature to hear him/her out on animal rights.

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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (edited at 12:12 pm, January 29, 2016 (PST))

In the 1990 film, Presumed Innocent, Harrison Ford plays WHAT fictional prosecutor who finds himself accused of murdering a colleague with whom he’s had an affair?

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Rusty Sabich

In the 1959 film, Compulsion, fictional lawyer Jonathan Wilk is hired to defend two young men accused of a spectacular Chicago murder. NAME the actor who played Wilk.

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Orson Welles

In the movie Philadelphia, Tom Hanks played WHAT FICTIONAL ATTORNEY who was fired from his lawfirm after he was diagnosed with AIDS?

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Andrew Beckett

In the 1991 remake of a classic movie, Nick Nolte plays a lawyer terrorized by a man put into jail on the testimony of the lawyer. WHO PLAYED THE LAWYER in the original 1962 version of the movie by the same name.

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Gregory Peck

In a Golden Globe nominated performance (really!) for Liar Liar, Jim Carrey plays a compulsive liar who, is also an attorney. WHAT IS THE FULL NAME of the character Carrey plays?

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Fletcher Reede

In this film, Jimmy Stewart plays a defense attorney in this study of a Army lieutenant accused of murder. George C. Scott played the prosecutor. NAME THE MOVIE.

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Anatomy of a Murder