Can you name the TV actors in Best Picture winners? by seanw

Can you name the TV actors in Best Picture winners?

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Lost
Evangeline Lilly
Dominic Monaghan
Naveen Andrews
Daniel Dae Kim

Taxi
Judd Hirsch
Tony Danza
Danny De Vito
Christopher Lloyd

24
Jude Ciccolella
James Badge Dale
Mykelti Williamson
Anil Kapoor

Murphy Brown
Candace Bergen
Robert Pastorelli
Haley Joel Osment

Twin Peaks
Russ Tamblyn and Richard Beymer
Joan Chen
Billy Zane

Cheers
Woody Harrelson
John Ratzenberger

Law and Order
Anthony Anderson
George Dzunda

The West Wing
Martin Sheen
Allison Janney

Ally McBeal
Taye Diggs
Lucy Liu

Quantum Leap
Dean Stockwell
Scott Bakula

Monk
Ted Levine
Jason Gray-Stanford

The Unusuals
Adam Goldberg
Jeremy Renner

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TV actors in Best Picture winners Quiz

by seanw

Created Jan 21, 2011 in Movies
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	greasytony:	Jan 22nd, 2011 at 05:08 GMT	4 points
	Wall Street didn't win Best Picture.

	vizli:	Jan 22nd, 2011 at 05:29 GMT	5 points
	martin sheen was also in the Departed.

	greasytony:	Jan 22nd, 2011 at 06:05 GMT	2 points
	Jerry Orbach was an extra in the ballroom scene in "Marty". Taye Diggs was in all of ten episodes of "Ally McBeal". If you're going to go that far, then Colm Feore should be here - he was in twelve episodes of "24" and was in "Chicago". Shouldn't Sean Astin and Jon Voight be included here, considering they were each in ten episodes of "24"? Nice idea for a quiz but you're really stretching to say that some of these actors were regualar cast members.

	seanw:	Jan 22nd, 2011 at 13:49 GMT	1 point
	@greasytony, @vizli: Thanks for helping me out of my Sheen cottonheadedness. @greasytony; I found many other actors I could have included, but edited them down. Stockwell's youthful cameo seemed obscure enough not to trouble solvers with Marty as well. As far as the Taye-Diggs-wasn't-really-on-Ally-McBeal concern, high-profile guest stars and season-long (or half-season-long) characters are stock-in-trade for a lot of shows. I think Taye Diggs is remembered as having been on Ally; I think Billy Zane is remembered as having been on Twin Peaks; HJ Osment played Murphy's son; etc.

	alsanali:	Jan 22nd, 2011 at 15:12 GMT	2 points
	I like the idea, but it just comes down to "Name as many best picture winners as you can think of".

	seanw:	Jan 22nd, 2011 at 15:33 GMT	1 point
	@alsanali: I thought about that, and agree some guessing will take place, but in 3/4 of the cases, either the TV actor's role is very significant in the BP winner, or their answer will populate because they're in the same movie as a more obvious person (so J Renner brings E Lilly along with him). Are you suggesting I reduce the game clock so there's less time for guessing?

	greasytony:	Jan 22nd, 2011 at 18:08 GMT	1 point
	I think it gets sticky when you consider some of these as "TV actors". Yes, Devito and Lloyd became more well known with their "Taxi" roles, but their BP roles preceded the show, and anyone who had seen the film already knew them. Same with Ted Levine - his Buffalo Bill was unforgettable ten years before "Monk" hit the airwaves. (Naveen Andrews' BP role also preceded "Lost" by eight years.) I understand where you were going with this quiz, but it's hard to argue that some of these actors are more well known as "TV actors".

	brez002:	Jan 23rd, 2011 at 03:08 GMT	1 point
	i agree with alsanali, maybe cut down on the time if you don't want to make ppl guess in order.

	googlebird:	Jan 23rd, 2011 at 03:25 GMT	1 point
	The title doesn't make sense. It asks "Can you name the TV actors in Best Picture winners?" You are looking for the name of a movie, not an actor. Also, you need to fix the spelling of movies in the instructions.

	druhutch:	Jan 23rd, 2011 at 04:15 GMT	1 point
	I believe it's George "Dzundza".

	rockgolf:	Jan 23rd, 2011 at 13:21 GMT	1 point
	I got what you were looking for right away, and it fairly obvious that in several cases the "Best Picture" would have to pre-date the TV series. Before Lost debuted, the big news was that the cast an actor from Lord of the Rings. Great stuff. Think about "running a reversal", too. That is identifying a list of characters & their TV series and getting us to name the Best Picture they were in. Example: Title character in Julie, Alexander Addington in Counterstrike, Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man (1977), Penny Robinson in Lost In Space - all from Sound of Music.

	agstilp:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 19:00 GMT	1 point
	I loved it. Five minutes would suffice.