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1. Dennis Farina, star of such movies as "Midnight Run" and "Get Shorty" and TV shows "In-Laws" and "Crime Story", had this occupation before becoming an actor.
2. Charles Dutton, star of the TV show "Roc" and movies "Aliens 3" and "The Distinguished Gentleman", spent his early adulthood in prison. For what crime was he in jail?
3. Gloria Stuart, Oscar-nominated actress for her role in "Titanic" (1997), was first an actress before World War II, but then retired from acting to raise a family and excel at this profession:
4. Harrison Ford had little initial success in acting, so he taught himself this trade before making it big in movies like "American Graffiti" and "Star Wars".
5. Fred Thompson, of such movies as "No Way Out", "Baby's Day Out", "The Hunt for Red October", and "Die Hard 2", was first a(n) ______, then an actor, then a(n) _____ ?
6. Before making it in acting, which of these Academy-award winning actresses worked as a bricklayer, a bank teller, and in a mortuary applying make-up to corpses?
7. This character actor was a farmer, a rodeo rider, a body guard (to Howard Hughes), a blacksmith, all before becoming an actor.
8. Somewhere in California, there is a little girl named Roberta, named after the policeman that helped birth her in an emergency delivery. This policeman had been an actor in the 1960s and 1970s before joining the LAPD. He is ________ ?
9. Which beautiful silent-then-talkies movie actress worked as a soap-latherer in a barber's shop before making it big?
10. Burt Reynolds was drafted by which NFL team?
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