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1. This eight times married actress was created a Dame in 2000. She won Academy Awards for 'BUtterfield 8' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'?
2. This Scottish-born star was knighted in 2000. He won an Academy Award for 'The Untouchables' (1987) and is the father of actor Jason.
3. This American entertainer wrote most of her own material, a series of clever double-entendre one-liners with the accent on sex. Sayings like, 'Come up and see me sometime' made her a legend?
4. He began as a vocalist with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey bands. This four times married American actor married Ava Gardner (1951-57) and Mia Farrow (1966-68). He died of a heart attack in 1998.
5. This Georgia-born American actress cancelled her wedding to actor Kiefer Sutherland, three days before the ceremony in 1991 and subsequently married and later divorced singer and musician Lyle Lovett.
6. This American actor married Mimi Rogers, an actress several years his senior in 1987. He co-starred with a future wife in three films.
7. This Indian-born actress went to Hollywood and married Laurence Olivier. Her career was dogged by illness and she died from tuberculosis in 1967?
8. This American actor is from a family of actors with brothers Stephen, William and Daniel all in films. He married Kim Basinger in August 1993.
9. This American actress became a television icon over the years in numerous series. Her son died from an accidental gunshot wound.
10. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he was raised in England from the age of nine. He married Emma Thompson but the couple parted in 1995. Like Sir Laurence Olivier he attempted to bring Shakespeare to the masses?
11. Born Margaret Hyra in 1961 she was married to actor Dennis Quaid although they parted in 2000?
12. This British comic actor married Britt Ekland (1963-68). He suffered several minor heart attacks before a major one which killed him in 1980?
13. Born in Santa Rosa, California, but educated in Austria she showed up best in icily unsympathetic parts such as a psychotic nanny in a famous 1992 film?
14. In the forties he was the number one box-office attraction in the country. He married actress Dixie Lee (1930-52) and died from a heart attack after a round of golf in Madrid in 1977?
15. Which American actor, who was thrown out of a military academy, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'The Usual Suspects'?
16. This Lithuanian-born Hollywood entertainer married Ruby Keeler (1928-39) and died of a heart attack in 1950. He billed himself as the world's greatest entertainer?
17. This New Zealand-born actor was the son of film caterers and became an Australian Oscar winner for the controversial film 'Romper Stomper'?
18. She is a keen photographer and a number of her portfolios have been published. She has directed several films and in 1968 she was an understudy for the musical 'Hair'?
19. This Scottish-born actor with a figure as pencil-thin as his moustache wrote two extremely popular light-hearted autobiographies and died of motor neurone disease?
20. This American actress played a Bond girl, married and divorced singer Jack Jones and later married Robert Wagner in 1990?
21. This American juggler and comedian had an abrasive alcohol-oriented delivery. He wore a fake moustache in films until 1932 and Christmas Day was the day he moaned about more than any other?
22. This American actress was usually cast several years younger than her real age and was the cousin of actor Rip Torn?
23. This moustached American actor could not accept the leading role in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' which went to Harrison Ford?
24. This Welsh-born actor was knighted in 1976, the year he died from pneumonia after an operation?
25. Mrs. Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, was shot dead in 1984 by a Sikh member of her bodyguard. This happened in New Delhi whilst walking to a meeting with this actor to discuss making a documentary about her. Peter ______?
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