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1. Accomplished stage actor, Sydney Greenstreet, resisted the lure of movie stardom until age sixty-one, thirteen years before complications from kidney disease and diabetes ended his time on Earth in 1954. In 1941, he made his film debut as Kaspar Gutman aka The Fatman, a polite but dangerous kingpin who stopped at nothing to gain possession of a valuable bird statue. What was the name of the movie?
2. Forty-five years before he died of accidental asphyxiation at age seventy-two in 2009, David Carradine made his feature film debut as a gunslinger in an obscure 1964 B-level western. He played Cal Dodge, one of three hired guns killed by the man he was tracking. What was the name of the movie?
3. Vincent Price died in 1993 at the age of eighty-two from a combination of lung cancer and emphysema. Fifty-five years earlier in his 1938 movie debut, he played Robert Wade, a traditional man who fell in love with a nontraditional business woman. What was the name of the movie?
4. Paul Newman passed away from lung cancer at the age of eighty-three in 2008. He started out his career obtaining regular television work in the 1950s and then got his first feature film role in 1954 in a religious costume drama. He played Basil, an artisan commissioned to silverize a sacred cup. What was the name of the movie?
5. John Ritter died of an aortic dissection in 2003, just six days before he would have turned fifty-five. Thirty-two years earlier in 1971, he made his film debut in a supporting role in a Disney film. He played Roger, a snobbish television underling who sucked up to his TV network president uncle. What was the name of the movie?
6. Forty-five years after she created her first credited film role in 1940, Ruth Gordon suffered a life-ending stroke at the grand old age of eighty-nine in 1985. She played the wife of a very prominent U.S. president in her debut. What was the name of the movie?
7. Three years before her promising acting career was cut short by the homicidal Manson Family killers in 1969 at age twenty-six, Sharon Tate landed her first credited movie role in 1966. She played, Odile de Caray, a witch who exerted mysterious powers over a wealthy landowner. What was the name of the movie?
8. In 1992, Anthony Perkins died from complications related to AIDS at the age of sixty, thirty-nine years after he made his 1953 film debut in a supporting role. He played Fred Whitmarsh, the handsome youthful suitor of a young woman who desperately wanted to become an actress. What was the name of the movie?
9. After two uncredited movie appearances, William Holden got his feature film break in a 1939 movie about fighting and music. Forty-two years before he bled to death in a 1981 drunken slip-and-fall, he played Joe Bonaparte, a young man who was torn between his desire to be a professional boxer and his father's desire for him to become a concert violinist. What was the name of the movie?
10. DeForest Kelley passed away from stomach cancer in 1999 at the fine old age of seventy-nine. Fifty-two years earlier in 1947, he appeared in his first feature film role. He played Vince Grayson, an amnesic bank teller who thought he may have murdered someone. What was the name of the movie?
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