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1. This screen tough-guy was a miner after finishing school. After WW2 he got interested in acting and made his film debut in "You're in the Navy Now" (1951). In 1958 he got the lead role in the TV series "Man with a Camera". He was one of "The Magnificent Seven".
2. This actor made a great many guest-starring roles in a lot of different TV series. In 1975 he was picked to star in a new sit-com based on the British show "Man About the House". The first pilot was panned and some changes to the cast were made which did a little better, but still not well enough. Suzanne Somers was brought into the show and it luckily got another chance when it was picked as a mid-season replacement in 1977. The show was of course "Three's Company".
3. This actor was the son of a drug dealer.... No! Not that sort of drug dealer! A druggist/chemist. He quickly became a Hollywood star. In only his second film, "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944), he was nominated for an Oscar. He did rather well in Westerns like "Yellow Sky" (1948) and "The Gunfighter" (1950). By 1950 he had had three Oscar nominations. He finally won one for playing Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962).
4. This actress has won 4 Oscars and been nominated on 8 other occasions. She was twenty-six when she won her first and seventy-four when she won her last. She never watched "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) because it was Spencer Tracy's last film.
5. This comedian was born in London but emigrated to America when he was five years old. In 1938, he made his first film, "The Big Broadcast", in which he sang "Thanks for the Memory".
6. This American character actor lost the sight of his left eye in a childhood fight when a boy threw a pencil at him which penetrated the eye. He was at home playing killers or sidekicks mainly in Westerns, his immobile eye giving him a menacing look. He played the deputy sheriff to James Garner in "Support Your Local Sheriff" (1969).
7. This singer/songwriter was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He is probably best remembered as a country singer but he was more than that. He generally wore clothes of a dark colour which resulted in him getting an appropriate nickname.
8. This British businessman was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1945 for his work in organising the move of Canadian troops from Italy to North West Europe late in WW2. His first marriage ended in divorce but he remarried again in 1951. His new wife, Margaret, was to become famous in her own right. He was already a millionaire when he met the then Margaret Roberts and financed her training as a barrister. He sold his company to Castrol in 1965 and got a seat on their board which he retained when Castrol themselves were taken over by Burmah Oil.
9. This man was the 3rd President of Uganda. He seized power in a military coup in 1971. He subjected his country to massive financial mismanagement, ethnic cleansing, human rights abuses and murdered tens of thousands of citizens. The story of his life during those turbulent years in the 1970s is told in the film "The Last King of Scotland" (2006).
10. This American jockey is one of the greatest of all time. He won the first of over 8,000 victories in April 1949 and the last in January 1990. He won 11 'Triple Crown' races during his career. At the age of 19, an attorney was appointed as his guardian by the Los Angeles Superior Court because of the amount of money he was earning (as much as $2,500 per week in 1951).
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