Movie Marathon (Part 2)

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Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
  3. Doctor Strange (2016)
  4. Shirley Valentine (1989)
  5. Ben-Hur (1959)
  6. Erin Brockovich (2000)
  7. Major Payne (1995)
  8. Stella Dallas (1937)
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Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
  3. Doctor Strange (2016)
  4. Shirley Valentine (1989)
  5. Ben-Hur (1959)
  6. Erin Brockovich (2000)
  7. Major Payne (1995)
  8. Stella Dallas (1937)
  9. Superman (1978)
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Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
  3. Doctor Strange (2016)
  4. Shirley Valentine (1989)
  5. Ben-Hur (1959)
  6. Erin Brockovich (2000)
  7. Major Payne (1995)
  8. Stella Dallas (1937)
  9. Superman (1978)
  10. Batman (1989)

Pass

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Just curious, but wouldn’t ‘Superman’ (real name either Kal-El or Clark Kent) or ‘Batman’ (real name Bruce Wayne) be titles or nicknames, not actual names?

-“BB”-

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IMO Batman and Superman are alter egos and not just nicknames. I would say those fit the category.

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Those are the names that everyone knew them by and called them. Very few people knew them by any other name. If we object to those then we must also revisit Major Payne and Doctor Strange, where Major and Doctor are a rank/title/honorific, not a name.

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
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By Non-Actor I mean someone who is better known in another field and not generally remembered as an actor.

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
    (never made another movie in his life, so I think we can consider him a non-actor)

-“BB”-

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
  3. United 93 - Ben Sliney

He plays himself, the FAA operations center director on 9/11. More than a cameo, he’s prominently featured in several scenes.

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
  3. United 93 - Ben Sliney
  4. The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison

He was, in fact, the lead in the film, in which he played a Confederate spy during the Civil War, who had a bullet-shooting guitar.

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
  3. United 93 - Ben Sliney
  4. The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison
  5. The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor

Ngor was a doctor and refugee from Cambodia who survived Khmer Rouge.

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
  3. United 93 - Ben Sliney
  4. The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison
  5. The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor
  6. Two-Lane Blacktop - James Taylor

Bonus: His co-star was Dennis Wilson, of the Beach Boys.

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
  3. United 93 - Ben Sliney
  4. The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison
  5. The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor
  6. Two-Lane Blacktop - James Taylor
  7. Oh, God - John Denver
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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
  3. United 93 - Ben Sliney
  4. The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison
  5. The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor
  6. Two-Lane Blacktop - James Taylor
  7. Oh, God - John Denver
  8. Finding Forrester - Rob Brown

The then-16-year-old only attended the casting call because he owed his mother $300 for cellphone bills and hoped he might get a role as an extra that would help him pay her back.

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
  3. United 93 - Ben Sliney
  4. The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison
  5. The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor
  6. Two-Lane Blacktop - James Taylor
  7. Oh, God - John Denver
  8. Finding Forrester - Rob Brown
  9. Airplane! - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Yeah, I wouldn’t consider Superman or Batman to be two words, but whatevs.

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Of course, the category was 1 or 2 words…

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Right you are! My bad. Game on.

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Movies with a Non-Actor in a Prominent Role

  1. True Grit - Glen Campbell
  2. Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory - Peter Ostrum
  3. United 93 - Ben Sliney
  4. The Fastest Guitar Alive - Roy Orbison
  5. The Killing Fields - Haing S. Ngor
  6. Two-Lane Blacktop - James Taylor
  7. Oh, God - John Denver
  8. Finding Forrester - Rob Brown
  9. Airplane! - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  10. The Best Years of Our Lives - Harold Russell

NEXT: Movies that were an actor’s "Big Break"

  1. Alien – Sigourney Weaver