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1. This director never won an Oscar for his films and yet is one of the most recognisable names in cinematic history. He liked to appear onscreen somewhere in his films. I'll not give any further clue as that should be enough.
2. This actor shares his name with the director of a Best Film Oscar winning movie. He is known by his middle name and his first name was Terence. He was one of "The Magnificent Seven".
3. This English comedy actor became famous on a British radio show called "The Goon Show" in the 1950s. It was in 1964 that he played three roles including the title character in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". His signature character however, was the bumbling Inspector Clouseau whom he played in five films. He also played James Bond.
4. This singer/songwriter was born in England and died in New York. He and three others were in a group together and he formed one of the world's great song-writing partnerships with one of the other band members.
5. This American comedian was known for his big nose and rumpled hat. He appeared in many Broadway musicals and had his own radio and TV shows.
6. Born in 1893, this American actress grew up in a Vaudeville family. She first appeared on stage at 5 years old and by 14 she was billed as "The Baby Vamp". She wrote her own plays and one of them, titled "Sex", caused her to be jailed for 10 days in 1926 on an obscenity charge. She was given a small part in a film in 1932 but she was a big hit. Her next film was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. It was based on a play she herself had written herself. "She Done Him Wrong" made the male lead (Cary Grant) a star too. "I'm No Angel", her next film caused such raised eyebrows that the studios were forced to introduce censorship to regulate the content of films.
7. This actor starred as "Richard Diamond, Private Detective". His career defining role, however, came a little later when he played Dr. Richard Kimble in "The Fugitive".
8. This Canadian actor was the son of a Mohawk chief. He started in films as a stuntman and made several films credited as "Indian" before making a film with Clayton Moore called "The Cowboy and the Indians". The two of them went on to make a TV series together.
9. This Welsh actor won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1960 in a film which starred Charlton Heston from a novel by Lew Wallace. He played an Arab sheikh.
10. This actor was born in New York. A lot of his film roles were tough guys of some description, often a gangster or a convict. He appeared in "Some Like it Hot" (1959), playing Spats Colombo, the mobster chasing Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. A film about his life was released in 1961 starring Ray Danton.
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