A Movie Scene Quiz

Private detective - The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep
Naval captain - The Caine Mutiny
Irish horse trainer/stable man - Dark Victory
Businessman - Sabrina

Yes to Bogart. I thought the Irish horse trainer might throw you off track.

Strangely, that was the one that gave it to me! I guess it sticks in my mind because it was such an odd role for Bogey to play.

Thinking...

This actor has been:

Salesman
Writer
TV producer
Artist

I'm thinking. I have an actor in mind - an actor I was going to ask next. Actually, I had better stop thinking about him because I'm in a rut. I can't think of a movie in which he played an artist.

He was a real-life artist, if that's any help.

salesman - Glengarry, Glen Ross
writer - The Hours
TV Producer - The Truman Show
Artist - Pollock

Looks like the image didn't take, but I know who you mean -- yes to Ed Harris! Was he the actor you were originally thinking of?

The image is showing up here, Bree.

My computer must be acting up -- I just noticed I'm not only getting the image of Ed Harris, I'm also not getting the image of Bogart that I posted earlier.

Anyway, take it away!

Oh, must be your computer. No, he's not the one I was going to ask. I was going to ask:

TV producer
Salesman
Lawyer
Short order cook

Al Pacino

TV producer - Simone (?)
Salesman - Glengarry Glen Ross
Lawyer - ...And Justice For All
Short order cook - Frankie and Johnny

Al Pacino came to my mind as well

And you are both correct, but Bree was first.

And now, I'm not sure about the "TV producer", because although I read this in Ebert's review:

A story for 60 Minutes compiled by correspondent Mike Wallace (played in the film by Christopher Plummer) and producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) was killed when a potential lawsuit by tobacco giant Brown & Williamson threatened a buyout of CBS that would make a number of high-placed corporate executives very rich.

the IMDB summary reads:

Pacino plays the 60 Minutes reporter. However, the summary goes on to say:

Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him.

(Pacino played Lowell Bergman. )

Well, I saw The Insider, and I can't remember whether the character Pacino played was a producer or a reporter! I think "producer" was probably the right description, though -- the movie just slipped my mind.

willow, take the next one if you want -- I'm about to leave the office for my piano lesson, and I don't know when I'll be back online.

okay i will give it a shot

University Professor
Boxing Promoter
Political Activist
Psychiatrist

see you soon!

After much thought, I can come up with three movies for Judd Hirsch, but I can't find one in which he was a boxing promoter.

University professor - A Beautiful Mind
Political activist - Running on Empty
Psychiatrist - Ordinary People

Am I anywhere close?

Is Willow teasing us, maybe?

Mac answered my earlier question with: Barbra Streisand

Psychiatrist - Prince of Tides
College Professor - The Mirror Has Two Faces
Prizefighter's manager - The Main Event
Political activist - The Way We Were

So she did -- but is there a difference between "prizefighter's manager" (your clue) and "boxing promoter" (willow's)? Darned if I know.

Neither did anyone in the movie, The Main Event, Bree.

Willow, speak to us.