Who am I?

Kevin Kline

 

You da man....

A Cop (Pink Panther remake)
A Pirate (Pirates of Penzance)
A President (Dave; Wild Wild West)
A Cowboy (Silverado)
Won an Oscar (Fish Called Wanda)
Taught an Oscar Winner (In and Out)

 

This should be easy. I have played:
A robot
An Indian chief
A mad professor
A priest
A doctor
A king

 

Mel Brooks?

 

Bingo.

 

OK, I started this one, now I have to keep it going.

I'm alive, have been Oscar-nominated. You know me. Some of my major roles have been:

A villan in the original and the sequel

A vice-president

A conspirator in the highest levels of government

A homicidal maniac

An unpopular, numbers-crunching corporate henchman

the defense attorney to a murderder

a single parent, twice

but even with those roles, my most famous scene is one in which I didn't have a line of dialogue.

 

Glenn Close?

 

Wow, outstanding effort. I thought that would be a lot tougher.

A villan in the original and the sequel (101, 102 Dalmations)

A vice-president (Air Force One)

A conspirator in the highest levels of government (Dangerous Liasions)

A homicidal maniac (Fatal Attraction)

An unpopular, numbers-crunching corporate henchman (The Paper)

the defense attorney to a murderder (Jagged Edge)

a single parent, twice (GARP, The Natural)

but even with those roles, my most famous scene is one in which I didn't have a line of dialogue.

(The hat scene in The Natural).

 

I thought you were talking about the kitchen sink scene in Fatal Attraction. Can a chick be a henchman? And she was a single mom in Jagged Edge as well.

 

Probably would have been tougher if I hadn't watched the series premiere of "Damages" last night. She was probably in my subconscious.

I wasn't sure about the single parent roles, the defense attorney or the "most well-known scene." I actually figured her most well known scene would have come from 'Fatal Attraction.' But I knew about the other roles, so it sounded right.

 

I am alive.
I have played a senator and a power-hungry maniac, a gunslinger and a reverend.
I've been a great driver and a blind man, a sheriff and a fugitive from the law.
I've been an admiral, a captain, a major general, a major, a colonel, a lt. colonel, a sergeant and even defense secretary of the United States.
One of my characters had the same first name as the last name of a character I played three decades earlier.

Who am I.

 

Gene Hackman?