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Answer: Peter Cushing

Peter Cushing's career on screen began with a small role in the 1939 film version of "The Man in the Iron Mask", with another early role being opposite Laurel and Hardy in "A Chump at Oxford". However, it was his long association with Hammer Films, for whom he made twenty-two films, that he is perhaps best known. It began when he was cast as Victor Frankenstein in 1957's "The Curse of Frankenstein", which he followed up in 1958 by playing Abraham van Helsing in "Dracula". Cushing also appeared on the big screen in adaptations of two Dalek serials from the BBC TV series "Doctor Who", as well as Grand Moff Tarkin in "Star Wars: A New Hope".

By the 1980s, having been diagnosed with prostate cancer, Cushing began to slow down, with his appearance as Air Commodore William Raymond in the 1986 adventure / sci-fi mashup "Biggles" (released in the United States as "Biggles: Adventures in Time") being his last screen role.

Answer: Apples

Yahoo Serious gained an interest in Albert Einstein while travelling down the Amazon, when he saw a local wearing a t-shirt with the physicist's face on it. This led to him taking a previous screenplay that he had co-written about a man who invents rock 'n' roll, and adapting it into the film that eventually became "Young Einstein". In the film, Einstein is the genius son of an apple farmer from Tasmania, who has no desire to follow his father, instead using his genius to develop the theory of mass-energy equivalence (E=mc2) in order to split atoms to create bubbles in beer. Among other discoveries in the film are the theory of relativity and the electric guitar and rock 'n' roll.

The film was a major commercial success in Australia, but failed at the box office elsewhere, particularly in the United States, where Warner Brothers, who had the international distribution rights, paid $8m towards marketing the film.

Answer: Philadelphia

"Worth Winning" was based on a novel of the same name by Dan Lewandowski. The film features Mark Harmon as Taylor Worth, the weather presenter for Channel 5 news in Philadelphia, and a notorious lothario, who agrees to a wager with his friend Ned (who has the ulterior motive of trying to force Taylor to settle down) that Taylor can't persuade three different women, who he's never met, to agree to marry him. Although he starts out with supreme confidence, as events progress Taylor finds himself losing both control of the situation, and his heart.

Despite the presence of an Emmy-award winning director and a quality cast, "Worth Winning" was a commercial failure, taking less than $4m at the box office during its release.

Answer: Demi Moore

"Blame It On Rio" was based on a 1977 French film, "Un moment d'égarement", and featured a stellar cast led by Michael Caine, who the previous year had received an Oscar nomination for "Educating Rita". Included in the cast, playing the daughter of Michael Caine's character, was Demi Moore who, at the time, was a member of the cast of the TV series "General Hospital".

Although the film was both a critical and commercial flop, it did prove to be a breakout role for Moore, as she was subsequently cast in "St Elmo's Fire" the following year.

Answer: Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson made his film debut in the 1958 film "The Cry Baby Killer", which began a decade long collaboration between the actor and producer Roger Corman, with Nicholson appearing in a total of nine of Corman's films. One of these was the 1963 horror spoof "The Raven", loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem of the same name, which starred the legendary horror stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.

In the film, Nicholson plays Rexford, the son of Lorre's character, Dr. Adolphus Bedlo, who share a testy relationship.

This came from the genuine relationship between Lorre and Nicholson on the set, as the pair reportedly did not get on well.

Answer: Armadillo

"Necessary Roughness" was based on the real-life story of the Southern Methodist University Mustangs who, in 1987, received the NCAA's so-called "death penalty" for repeated violations of the rules against paying players. The film sees the Texas State University Armadillos unable to provide football scholarships, and so having to form a new squad from the regular student body, leading to a group of misfit recruits wearing the team's uniforms.

At the time of the film's release, there was no such institution as Texas State University but, in 2003, Southwest Texas State renamed itself as Texas State, with their sports teams nicknamed the Bobcats.

Answer: Jeroen Krabbé

Jeroen Krabbé is a Dutch actor whose career began in 1963 in "Fietsen naar de Maan" in his native country. He came to prominence in films made by his countryman Paul Verhoven such as "Soldaat van Oranje" and "De vierde man", before making his American debut in "Jumpin' Jack Flash".

He built a body of work playing villainous roles during the late 1980s and early 1990s, most notably as General Koskov in "The Living Daylights", the first film to feature Timothy Dalton as James Bond. One of these films was "The Punisher", a version of the Marvel Comics character that was produced in Australia and released in 1989, in which he played a Mafia boss at war with the Yakuza.

Answer: Danny Dyer

"Mean Machine" was developed as a starring vehicle for footballer turned actor Vinnie Jones. The film came about when producer Matthew Vaughan came across the 1974 film "The Longest Yard", about a prison American Football team, and thought it was ideal to adapt for Jones.

The film features a large cast of well-known British actors, including Danny Dyer, who played the character of Billy the Limpet, a young prisoner who is a huge fan of footballer Danny Meehan, and will do anything to impress his hero and get into the team.

Answer: Patrick Labyorteaux

Patrick Labyorteaux's breakout role came when he played Andy Garvey in 43 episodes of "Little House on the Prairie" between 1977 and 1981. During the 1980s he appeared in a range of both TV series and films, including "Summer School" and "Heathers", before he played the role of Ed in "Ski School" in 1990, alongside his "Summer School" co-star Dean Cameron. Four years after the release of "Ski School", Labyorteaux appeared in the pilot episode of "JAG" as then Ensign Bud Roberts, a junior officer in the US Navy.

He eventually played the role in 208 episodes of "JAG", as well as three episodes of its spin-off "NCIS".

Answer: Michael Pertwee

Michael Pertwee was a playwright and screenwriter, as well as being the son of the actor and director Roland Pertwee and older brother of actor Jon Pertwee. In 1973, he adapted his own stage farce, "Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!" into a film starring Brian Rix (who had appeared in the original stage version between 1971 and 1973) and Leslie Phillips.

Although the film was critically panned, it was further adapted into a sitcom, "Men of Affairs", in 1974, with Pertwee writing a total of four episodes.