Paul Scofield (1922-2008) played Sir Thomas More in "A Man for All Seasons". He won a Tony Award in 1962, and the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1967. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was a British statesman who was also a devout Catholic. He refused to try to convince the Pope to annul the marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
2. "The Miracle Worker"
Answer: Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft portrayed Helen Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan. She won a Tony Award in 1960, and the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1963. Young actress Patty Duke played the part of the child who was blind and deaf from infancy. The film role won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. With the help of the patient Sullivan, Helen Keller was taught to communicate.
The brilliant Ms Keller went on to earn a college degree and so much more.
3. "The King and I"
Answer: Yul Brynner
Russian born Yul Brynner played King Mongut of Siam, before Siam became an exonym for Thailand. Brynner won a Tony Award in 1952, and a Best Actor Oscar in 1957. The play and the film are about British governess, Anna Leonowens, and her son Louis, as they move to Bangkok where Anna is hired to teach English to the many children of the King.
4. "Come Back, Little Sheba"
Answer: Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth played Lola Delaney, a middle-aged woman stuck in a loveless marriage. Lola and Doc have been married for twenty years; they married because Lola found out she was pregnant. Doc dropped out of medical school and Lola wound up having a miscarriage. Before she had her own sitcom as "Hazel", the housekeeper for the Baxters, Booth won the Tony Award in 1950, and the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1953.
5. "The Subject Was Roses"
Answer: Jack Albertson
Jack Albertson (1907-1981) was an actor, comedian, singer and dancer, with roots going back to vaudeville. In "The Subject Was Roses", Jack was John Cleary, the father of a soldier returning home to the Bronx after World War II. Albertson received a Tony Award in 1965, and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1969.
He later went on to play Ed Brown, "the Man" in the sitcom "Chico and the Man" (1974-1978), with Freddie Prinze.
6. "Fences"
Answer: Viola Davis
"Fences" is a play by August Wilson. The wonderful and talented Viola Davis plays Rose Maxon, the wife of a sanitation worker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the 1950s. She won a Tony Award in 2010, and a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 2017.
She is the first black actress to win "The Triple Crown of Acting", i.e., a Tony, an Oscar and an Emmy. In 2015, Davis won an Emmy for her TV show "How to Get Away With Murder".
7. "Cabaret"
Answer: Joel Grey
Joel Grey, father of "Dirty Dancing" star Jennifer Grey, played the Master of Ceremonies/Emcee at the Kit Kat Klub in Berlin in 1931, in the pre-Nazi play and musical by Kander and Ebb, based on the book by Christopher Isherwood. Grey received a Tony Award in 1967, and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1973, opposite Liza Minelli as the inimitable Sally Bowles.
8. "Cyrano de Bergerac"
Answer: Jose Ferrer
Jose Ferrer (1912-1992) was an actor and an accomplished composer and Spanish guitarist. He has appeared in many major motion pictures including "The Caine Mutiny", "Moulin Rouge" and "Lawrence of Arabia". Ferrer was the protagonist in Edmond Rostand's story about a nobleman, with an extremely large proboscis, who is serving as a soldier, swordsman and poet in the French Army.
He won a Tony Award in 1947, and an Oscar for Best Actor in 1951.
9. "Zorba the Greek"
Answer: Lila Kedrova
Lila Kedrova (1918-2000) was a Russian born French actress. Among her films were: "Torn Curtain" (1966), "The Tenant" (1976) and "A High Wind in Jamaica" (1965).
Kedrova played Madame Hortense, a prostitute, in "Zorba the Greek". In an unusual switch, she won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1965 first. It was not until 1984, almost 20 years later, that she was awarded a Tony for her stage performance.
10. "My Fair Lady"
Answer: Rex Harrison
British actor of stage and screen, Sir Reginald 'Rex' Harrison (1908-1990), was the consummate actor. In 1949, Harrison won his first Tony Award for portraying Henry VIII in "Anne of the Thousand Days". He WAS Professor Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's play "My Fair Lady", a musical written by Lerner and Lowe.
He played the snobbish, phonetics professor who bets that he can change a lowly flower girl into a 'lady'. Rex won a Tony in 1957, and a Best Actor Oscar in 1965.
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