You were a leading character in an early movie of a particular director; your name later appeared, slightly changed, in dialogue for a later movie by the same director. Who were you? - The title character of THX-1138, mentioned in Star Wars, too (minus a “1,” if memory serves)
Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”? - Yes, the great Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas
Did you hold Cmdr. Spock’s job in an alternate timeline? - Cmdr. Thelin
DQs:
Best known the Arts?
Last name starts with T?
IQs:
Were you Odysseus’s fine young son?
Were you a noted writer who attended Oberlin College but didn’t graduate?
Were you a noted Athenian statesman and admiral?
Correct, Thornton Wilder, and close enough - it’s Themistocles.
DQ:
Native English speaker?
IQs:
Did you play Capt. Frank Furillo of Hill Street Station?
Are you playing Sherlock Holmes in a new TV series?
Did you have a long, epic rant about the shortcomings of American culture while driving?
Did you play Capt. Frank Furillo of Hill Street Station? - Yes, Daniel J. Travanti, on Hill Street Blues
Are you playing Sherlock Holmes in a new TV series? - David Thewlis, on Sherlock & Daughter
Did you have a long, epic rant about the shortcomings of American culture while driving? - Terry Thomas in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
DQs:
Has won a top award in his field?
Considered handsome?
IQs:
Were you killed with an ice pick, probably on Stalin’s orders?
Were you name-checked, once and only once, in a song in Grease?
Did you not take your husband’s last name of Dragon professionally?
Were you killed with an ice pick, probably on Stalin’s orders? - Yes, Leon Trotsky
Were you name-checked, once and only once, in a song in Grease? - Yes, Troy Donahue
Did you not take your husband’s last name of Dragon professionally? - The latter of Captain & Tennille
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Was knighted or ennobled?
IQs:
Did you star in The Limey?
Were you the odd butler in Manos: The Hands of Fate?
Did you arrange for the remains of John Paul Jones to be reburied at the U.S. Naval Academy?