Were you the tough-guy field reporter on FYI? - Yes, Frank Fontana on Murphy Brown
Did you star in $ky Heist? - Frank Gorshin; it was a TV movie from the Seventies that I still remember.
Were you GHWB’s White House press secretary? - Ari Fleischer was GWB’s press secretary; GHWB’s was Marlin Fitzwater.
DQs:
Generally considered a “good guy” nowadays?
Born before 1700?
IQs:
Did your first name inspire the name of an Eighties pop group?
Were you Eva Braun’s brother-in-law, executed in the last days of the Third Reich?
Were you one of a pair of criminal twins in Serenity?
Correct on Fulton and Fox. Philip Jose Farmer wrote one book under the nom de plume of Vonnegut’s SF author Kilgore Trout. Since SCAdian already guessed him, I won’t claim the DQ.
1: Michael Faraday worked with Sir Humphrey Davy, subject of the original Clerihew:
“Sir Humphrey Davy,
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium,
Of having discovered sodium.”
2: Saint Francis of Assisi
3: I only know Fourier’s last name.
IQ1: Were you the best known member of the British political party, Respect?
IQ2: Did you write Porgy and Bess?
IQ3: Was the actor who played you referred to by your nickname after achieving greater fame in another field?
Did your first name inspire the name of an Eighties pop group? - Yes, Frank Sinatra and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Were you Eva Braun’s brother-in-law, executed in the last days of the Third Reich? - Fegelin; I forget his first name. He was close to Himmler, and Hitler came to suspect him of conspiring with Himmler to surrender to the Allies.
Were you one of a pair of criminal twins in Serenity? - Yes, Fanty; his twin was Mingo IIRC.
On to the Gs…
IQs:
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?
Does the best-known bust of you capture your expression, acc. to the sculptor, of the moment when you reacted to a too-high price quoted for a horse?
Did you write about radio station WLT?
Bugger. And I was just explaining “penny for the Guy” to someone at work a couple days ago…
Correct on Flamel.
Faron.
Halley was the second - John Flamsteed was the first.
G…
IQ1: Were you the first French ace to reach a score of fifty enemy aircraft?
IQ2: Were you and Jonas Grumby the crew of a shipwrecked vessel?
IQ3: Were you commonly known as “Possum”?
