FOG Academy - Greatest Actor Ever.

[Zaph]

Just a quick update. I have added Sean Bean to the entrants as I discovered tonight I had Steve Carell and Steve Caell in the draw.

[Kol]

William Shatner
Ava Gardner
Daniel Radcliff
Olivia de Havilland

[quickbeam]

Sandra Oh v William Shatner - not even a fan really, but he is a legend, and something about Oh really annoys me in everything she's in.
Chris Pratt v Ava Gardner - sorry not to go old school here, but I've just preferred the Crisp Rat's movies.
Mandy Patinkin v Daniel Radcliffe - Patinkin is great, and if you disagree, then "prepare to die"!
Ryan O'Neal v Olivia de Havilland - classy lady who lived to a grand old age, and O'Neal is a dick.

[Wichita Lineman]

last - Despite a late rally Sandra Oh heads for the final frontier instead of Captain Kirk. Chris Pratt beating Ava Gardner is bad enough but seriously if Ryan O'Neal had knocked out Olivia de Havilland I think I'd have taken my ball and gone home.  (wink here - cant put one due to picture limit!)



next - Another mix of classic actors and those not fit to tie their shoelaces. It's up to you to decide who's who.  (big grin here - cant put one due to picture limit!)
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Results: 
Sandra Oh 6 v 4 William Shatner
Chris Pratt 6 v 4 Ava Gardner
Mandy Patinkin 5 v 4 Daniel Radcliffe
Ryan O'Neal 2 v 4 Olivia de Havilland

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Round 1 - Matches 109 - 112

Jim Broadbent - His role in Hot Fuzz (2007) was written specifically for him after he approached Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg at the BAFTA's in 2005 and asked if they would consider him for a role in their next film.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000980/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Michael Chiklis - His worst job was "unloading 18 wheel trucks for 12 hours a day". 
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004821/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Chris O'Dowd - Quote - "I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1483369/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

David Niven - Niven wound up with the deepest pool in Europe due to a miscommunication with the builders. They thought he meant 15 meters when all he wanted was 15 feet. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000057/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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Glenn Ford - Took up hang gliding at the age of 64.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001229/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Michael Weatherly - Son of Michael Manning Weatherly, Sr., who made millions as the American importer of the Swiss Army Knife, and Patricia, a hospital administrator.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915762/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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Daniel Day Lewis - In Gangs of New York (2002) his character "The Butcher" throws a knife at a picture of President Abraham Lincoln, hitting him right between the eyes. Ten years later he starred in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), playing the president himself. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000358/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Gene Kelly - He loved playing volley-ball at home, with his friends, on a concrete floor. His villa was never closed, always opened day and night for visitors.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000037/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Voting on post 29 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 30 arrives.
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Jim Broadbent v Michael Chiklis
Chris O'Dowd v David Niven
Glenn Ford v Michael Weatherly
Daniel Day Lewis v Gene Kelly

[nothing]

Jim Broadbent
Chris O'Dowd
Abstain
Gene Kelly

[quickbeam]

Jim Broadbent v Michael Chiklis
Chris O'Dowd v David Niven
Glenn Ford v Michael Weatherly
Daniel Day Lewis v Gene Kelly

[Necro]

Michael Chiklis
Abstain
Abstain
Daniel Day Lewis

[Kol]

Jim Broadbent
David Niven
Glenn Ford
Daniel Day Lewis - Wouldn't be a fan though he is obviously a good actor and Gene did mostly musicals which don't really interest me.

[Trigger]

Jim Broadbent
Chris O'Dowd
Glenn Ford
Daniel Day Lewis - extremely tough decision

[cee_jay]

Jim Broadbent
Chris O'Dowd
Glenn Ford
Gene Kelly

[davetherave]

Jim Broadbent
Chris O'Dowd
Michael Weatherly - Just so poor DiNozzo doesn't go out without a single vote.
Daniel Day Lewis

[Sawduck]

Michael Chiklis
David Niven
Glenn Ford
Daniel Day Lewis

[RSOAPS]

Jim Broadbent
Chris O'Dowd
Michael Weatherly
Daniel Day Lewis

[ShaneU]

Jim Broadbent
David Niven
Glenn Ford
Daniel Day Lewis

[Wichita Lineman]

last - 

next - 
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Results:

Jim Broadbent 8 v 2 Michael Chiklis
Chris O'Dowd 6 v 3 David Niven
Glenn Ford 6 v 2 Michael Weatherly
Daniel Day Lewis 7 v 3 Gene Kelly

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Round 1 - Matches 113 - 116


Brent Spiner - Released the album "Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back" (based on an old crooner song of the 1940s) with his male co-stars from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) singing backup vocals. The album's title refers to Data, whom he plays on the series.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000653/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

George Clooney - A renowned practical joker, of whom Brad Pitt is often a target, George Clooney revealed on The Graham Norton Show, that he had replaced the license plate frame on Brad Pitt's car with one that said, "Fuck Cops". Of course, Pitt was pulled over by the LAPD.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000123/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Will Poulter  - My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2401020/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Gary Cooper - In 1951, after 25 years in show business, his professional reputation declined and he was dropped from the Motion Picture Herald's list of the top 10 Box Office performers. The following year he made a big comeback at the age of 51 with High Noon (1952). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000011/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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Kirsten Dunst - Ever since her role in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), leading man Tom Cruise has sent her a coconut cake every year at Christmas which has become known as "The Cruise Cake" in the Dunst household.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000379/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Dennis Waterman - A singer as well as an actor, he had a number three single in the U.K. with the song "I Could Be So Good for You" in October 1980, which was the theme of Minder (1979). His duet with Minder (1979) co-star George Cole, "What Are We Gonna Get 'Er Indoors?", reached the number 21 position on the UK chart in 1983. He also sang the theme song for New Tricks (2003).
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913993/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Rutger Hauer - During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hauer became well known to the British mainstream for a series of Guinness commercials where he is clad in black. He publicly took a dislike for the drink and had to spit it out after each take.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000442/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Sean Bean - Of his many death scenes, his favorite is Boromir's in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), commenting that "you couldn't ask for a more heroic death". https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000293/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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Voting on post 30 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 31 arrives.
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Brent Spiner v George Clooney
Will Poulter v Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst v Dennis Waterman
Rutger Hauer v Sean Bean
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[Kol]

George Clooney
Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst
Rutger Hauer

[quickbeam]

Brent Spiner v George Clooney
Will Poulter v Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst v Dennis Waterman
Rutger Hauer v Sean Bean

[cee_jay]

George Clooney
Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst
Sean Bean

[Trigger]

George Clooney
Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst
Sean Bean

[Necro]

George Clooney
Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst
Sean Bean - one does not simply vote against Sean Bean

Edit: Apart from Kol evidently

[Mam of 4]

George Clooney
Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst
Rutger Hauer

Same here please WL.

Rutger Hauer will always be one of my favourite actors .

[Kol]

George Clooney
Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst
Sean Bean - one does not simply vote against Sean Bean

Edit: Apart from Kol evidently

The only beans I like are baked

[nothing]

George Clooney
Will Poulter
Kirsten Dunst
Sean Bean

[Trigger]

George Clooney
Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst
Sean Bean - one does not simply vote against Sean Bean

Edit: Apart from Kol evidently

The only beans I like are baked

[RSOAPS]

Brent Spiner
Will Poulter
Kirsten Dunst
Rutger Hauer

[Sawduck]

George Clooney
Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst
Rutger Hauer

[Wichita Lineman]

Apart from the tight Bean / Hauer clash a fairly routine set of results this time around with Clooney, Cooper, Dunst joining Bean in round 2. 

Some banana skins for big names potentially in the next lot.  

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Results:
Brent Spiner 1 v 8 George Clooney
Will Poulter 2 v 7 Gary Cooper
Kirsten Dunst 9 v 0 Dennis Waterman
Rutger Hauer 4 v 5 Sean Bean
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Round 1 - Matches 117 - 120


Steve Carell - Worked for a brief period at a post office in Massachusetts where he delivered mail using his own car since the post office did not have mail carrier vehicles. When he resigned from the position to move to Chicago, for months afterward he continued to find undelivered mail under his car seats.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136797/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Max Von Sydow - Had appeared in two films as a leading villain, in which plots include the use of eye replacement surgery as a means of fooling security eye scanners; as Blofeld in Never Say Never Again (1983) and Lamar Burgess in Minority Report (2002). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001884/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Sean Penn - His father Leo Penn, a writer was blacklisted during McCarthy era in Hollywood. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000576/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

David Tennant - Is a huge fan of The West Wing (1999).
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855039/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Sally Hawkins - Was obsessed with 1940s black and white films in her childhood.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1020089/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Karen Gillan - When she's not acting, she likes to play the piano and loves rummaging through vintage clothes shops.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2394794/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Jon Hamm - Attended Prince's very last concert, a 90-minute non-stop extravaganza at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia (April 2016).

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358316/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Walter Matthau - During the filming of Hello, Dolly! (1969), he clashed with Barbra Streisand and disliked her so intensely that he refused to be around her except when required to do so by the script. He is famously quoted as telling Streisand that she "had no more talent than a butterfly's fart."
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Voting on post 31 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 32 arrives.
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Steve Carell v Max Von Sydow
Sean Penn v David Tennant
Sally Hawkins v Karen Gillan
Jon Hamm v Walter Matthau

[RSOAPS]

Steve Carell
David Tennant
Karen Gillan
Jon Hamm

[Necro]

Steve Carell
Sean Penn
Abstain on the last two

[Neowise]

Sean Penn
Karen Gillan
Walter Matthau

[Kol]

Steve Carell
Sean Penn
Karen Gillan
Walter Matthau

[Trigger]

Steve Carell
Sean Penn
Karen Gillan
Walter Matthau

[Sawduck]

Max Von Sydow
Sean Penn
Sally Hawkins
Walter Matthau

[cee_jay]

Steve Carell
David Tennant
Karen Gillan
Jon Hamm

+1

[quickbeam]

Steve Carell v Max Von Sydow
Sean Penn v David Tennant
Sally Hawkins v Karen Gillan
Jon Hamm v Walter Matthau

[nothing]

Steve Carell
David Tennant
Karen Gillan
Jon Hamm

[ShaneU]

Max Von Sydow
Sean Penn
Karen Gillan
Jon Hamm

[Zaph]

Max Von Sydow
David Tennant
Karen Gillan
Walter Matthau

[Wichita Lineman]

Karen Gillan convincingly beats Sally Hawkins but all the others could have gone either way. 

One very tricky one to decide in the next set. Well it would be for me anyway. 
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Results:
Steve Carell 6 v 4 Max Von Sydow
Sean Penn 6 v 5 David Tennant
Sally Hawkins 2 v 8 Karen Gillan
Jon Hamm 4 v 6 Walter Matthau

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Round 1 - Matches 121 - 124
Domhnall Gleeson - Has a degree in media arts from the Dublin Institute of Technology. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1727304/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Mel Brooks - Claims the most flattering thing to happen to him during his long show business career was when Hedy Lamarr sued the producers of Blazing Saddles (1974) over the similar-sounding name of one of the lead characters ("Hedley Lamarr", who is mistakenly addressed as "Hedy", to his annoyance) because Brooks believes it is unusual for a "big name" actor to pay so much attention to such details. The suit was settled out of court. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000316/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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Laura Linney - Loves Meryl Streep. In The Truman Show (1998), her character was named Meryl and Laura was made up to look like her.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001473/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Kenneth Branagh - The last film he made with Emma Thompson was Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Their roles had previously been played in an earlier film by Robert Stephens and Maggie Smith, who were also a couple at the time.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000110/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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Gene Hackman - After initially turning down the role of Little Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992), Hackman finally accepted it, as its different slant on the western interested him. For his performance he won the Oscar and Golden Globe and decided that he wasn't tired of westerns after all.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Bill Murray - He is a diehard Chicago Cubs fan. During the Cubs playoff run in 2003, he was on location in Italy, but he had it written into his contract that he'd get a satellite feed of the playoffs. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

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Reese Witherspoon -  She collects antique linens and is crazy about old embroidery.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000702/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Kit Harington - Used to work in a book store where he often had to lift heavy copies of the ''A Song Of Ice and Fire'' series and grew to dislike George RR Martin as a result.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3229685/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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Voting on post 32 remains open for at least 3 hours / until post 33 arrives.
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Domhnall Gleeson v Mel Brooks
Laura Linney v Kenneth Branagh
Gene Hackman v Bill Murray
Reese Witherspoon v Kit Harington

[nothing]

Mel Brooks
Kenneth Branagh
Gene Hackman
Reese Witherspoon