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Can you name the actor who portrayed the title character of the biopic titled by the subject's surname?

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Biopic Title	Actor	Year
Silkwood		1983
Prefontaine		1997
Hoffa		1992
Gandhi		1982
Nixon		1995
Wilde		1997
Chaplin		1992
Capote		2005
Ali		2001
Serpico		1973

Biopic Title	Actor	Year
Disraeli		1929
Cobb		1994
MacArthur		1977
Becket		1964
Carrington		1995
Pollock		2000
Milk		2008
Patton		1970
Basquiat		1996
Kinsey		2004

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Surname Biopic Actors Quiz

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Created Nov 12, 2009 in Movies
Featured Jan 6, 2010
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	fromzimbabwe:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 04:19 GMT		9 points
	I really did enjoy this quiz a lot.

	MovieDynamic:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 04:21 GMT		1 point
	It's good, if a little short.

	redsxfenway:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 04:47 GMT		6 points
	"The irony is that one day perhaps of of these great actors will have a biopic for themselves." That's not ironic.

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	neskerdoo:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 05:06 GMT		4 points
	Without Limits is from 1998...

	TimeAndTide:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 05:08 GMT		13 points
	@tubagirl4eva: But Billy Crudup didn't star in the movie "Prefontaine", Jared Leto did. Should I have accepted Frank Langella for "Nixon" even though he portrayed Richard Nixon in a different movie ("Frost/Nixon")? Or Toby Jones for "Capote" even though he portrayed Truman Capote in a Capote biopic called "Infamous"? I think that would defeat the whole point of the quiz. Anyway, thanks for your comment.

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	Mutford:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 05:13 GMT		4 points
	I agree with Movie Dynamic. But, at least you leave the door open for sequels. So please do!

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	danzam:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 05:56 GMT		13 points
	George C. Scott was good in Patton, but it was nothing compared to his Oscar winning role in "Man Getting Hit By Football" a.k.a. "Football in the Groin".

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InsertCleverName:

Jan 6th, 2010 at 10:01 GMT

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"Ahhhh! My groin!" Also, "Wilde" is just a terrific movie, even though it's only tangentially related to the line from George C. Scott on The Simpsons.

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	kthejoker:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 15:41 GMT		-2 points
	No love for Cromwell or the supremely underrated 1973 Dillinger? The fabulous performance by ___ ____ in Romero? There's probably a few more. I think you covered all of the most popular ones.

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	cigarette:	Jan 6th, 2010 at 21:05 GMT		0 points
	JCVD in JCVD?

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	Joseph:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 02:50 GMT		-1 points
	okay so the couple of sentences underneath the link to the quiz said something about Brad Pitt (I skimmed over it) and for some reason I thought the picture of Gandhi was of Benjamin Button. Threw me off for a few seconds

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	jtrichey:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 04:33 GMT		0 points
	Funny there is a definite breakpoint in % guessed right between Silkwood and Prefontaine. I happened to get every answer right from SIlkwood and above and every answer wrong from Prefontaine and below

	TimeAndTide:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 05:42 GMT		3 points
	@beatrixkiddo and willy1273 -- I'm afraid I disagree with you. Billy Crudup and Frank Langella just don't fit the quiz topic. Yes, they were both in biopics, but they were not in biopics whose title is the surname of the subject. It would be like having a quiz on state capitals and expecting that Tbilisi should be a bonus answer because, hey, it's the capital of Georgia, just the country not the state. Anyway, the issue is moot. Once a quiz gets published on the main page, the quiz creator no longer has control of the content.

	barnztormre:	Jan 7th, 2010 at 10:55 GMT		-1 points
	Even though "Raging Bull" was only Jake LaMotta's nickname, I was hoping to see DeNiro as a bonus answer. Enjoyable quiz though.

	jlinstantkarma:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 14:27 GMT		1 point
	Thank you for including Cobb on here! Tommy Lee Jones played Ty Cobb perfectly.

	schwitze:	May 16th, 2010 at 13:45 GMT		0 points
	I'm probably being too picky, but I wouldn't call Serpico a biopic. It was based on a true story, but I think that's a stretch.

	triplemama:	Sep 1st, 2010 at 20:06 GMT		0 points
	I kept wanting to type Jordan Catalano for Jared Leto and I knew that wasn't right!

	BALatham:	Feb 18th, 2012 at 19:15 GMT		-1 points
	Billy Crudup also played Steve Prfontaine in a 1997 film, WITHOUT LIMITS. Of the two Pre biopics... Without Limits trumps Prefontaine.

	serf_in_USA:	Mar 27th, 2013 at 16:52 GMT		1 point
	How does Jamie Foxx for "Ray" not make the list?

	TimeAndTide:	Mar 29th, 2013 at 05:34 GMT		1 point
	@serf_in_USA: The title instruction of this quiz asks, "Can you name the actor who portrayed the title character of the biopic titled by the subject's surname?" By design I only included movies with titles consisting solely of the last name of the subject, e.g., "Gandhi" or "Milk". I didn't include "Ray" because that was the first name of the subject, Ray Charles.

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