What actor/actress comes to mind?

[KayFrancis]

This has been hanging out for over 24 hours unanswered so here's one

Suzanne Somers in Three's Company. It was based on a British tv show Man About the House

Next : actress who had success in a few long running comedy tv series

[Dargo2]

Mary Tyler Moore

(...btw Kay, thanks for answering my next...although I was SURE Swithin would hop on that one before now...that anglophile must be back in jolly ol' Blighty at the moment, and 'cause I've not seen hair nor hide of the guy for the past few days around these here parts)

Next: smooth operator

[laffite]

Steve McQueen

n: funny stumble bum

[KayFrancis]

You're welcome, dargo

Peter Sellers , Lou Costello also comes to mind

Next : actor equally good in drama or comedy

[laffite]

Jack Lemmon

next : can play characters years younger that his/her actual age

[Dargo2]

Jerry Lewis

Next: a villain in swashbucklers (and let's say other than Basil Rathbone)

[KayFrancis]

Mel Ferrer in Scaramouche

Next : plays a nurse in a golden age movie

[Swithin]

Jane Adams



Next: Took a pill in a movie

[Cinemaspeak59]

Warren Beatty in Reds. If I recall, his character was downing lots of pills.

Next: actor/actress you associate with camp, as in campy.

[Dargo2]

Vincent Price

Next: she always seemed excessively vain or at least played characters such as that

[j.lunatic]

Next: she always seemed excessively vain or at least played characters such as that

Gloria Swanson

Next: Played a "homme fatal"

[nakanosunplaza]

Alain Delon in Purple Noon

Another homme fatal

[laffite]

Matt Damon
the talented mr ripley

next : another homme fatal

[LostHorizons]

Dennis Hopper in the American Friend if we are just going by Highsmith adaptations cause I am pretty sure Homme fatal isn’t a real word

Next: played a villain one time but most often was the protagonsit

[Dargo2]

Next: played a villain one time but most often was the protagonsit

Hank here...


(...although this one could also probably apply to his close friend Jimmy as well)

Next: played a lady in waiting