Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard of names like John Wayne, Cary Grant, Julie Andrews, and Paul Newman—but do you know what these vintage actors and actresses look like? See how many you can identify with this quiz.
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John Wayne
John Wayne and nicknamed Duke was an American actor and filmmaker who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films made during Hollywood’s Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies. One of Wayne’s most popular roles was in The High and the Mighty (1954), directed by William Wellman, and based on a novel by Ernest K. Gann.
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, and author. Between 1964 and 1986, Andrews starred in various films working with directors including her husband Blake Edwards, George Roy Hill, and Alfred Hitchcock. Films she starred in include The Americanization of Emily (1964), Hawaii (1966), Torn Curtain (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), and Star! (1968).
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Clint Eastwood
Clinton Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, film director and producer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy” of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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Dan Aykroyd
Harrison Ford is an American actor. He is widely known for his portrayal of Indiana Jones in the titular film franchise, beginning with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and for playing other characters in different franchises, most notably Rick Deckard in the dystopian science fiction films Blade Runner (1982).
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Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot often referred to by her initials B.B. is a French former actress, singer and model. She started her acting career in 1952. She achieved international recognition in 1957 for her role in And God Created Woman (1956), and also caught the attention of French intellectuals.
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Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, race car driver and entrepreneur. Newman’s major film roles include The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1966), Cool Hand Luke (1967), and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
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Robert De Niro
Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is an American actor, producer, and director. His first major role was in Greetings (1968), and gained recognition with his role as a baseball player in the sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly (1973). His first collaboration with Scorsese was Mean Streets (1973), where he played small-time criminal “Johnny Boy”.
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he also starred as the romantic lead. Douglas reprised this role in the sequel in 1985, The Jewel of the Nile, which he also produced.
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Frank Sinatra
Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. He initially gained acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for reprising the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, a role that he originated successfully on Broadway.
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Sean Connery
Sir Sean Connery was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. Originating the role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions’ entries and made his final appearance in Never Say Never Again.
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino is an American actor and filmmaker. He gained favorable notice for his first lead role as a heroin addict in The Panic in Needle Park (1971). Wide acclaim and recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he would reprise the role in the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).
Name This 80s Vintage Actress!
Sigourney Weaver
Susan Alexandra “Sigourney” Weaver is an American actress. Weaver rose to fame for playing Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s science fiction film Alien (1979), which earned her a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She reprised the role with a critically-acclaimed performance in Aliens (1986), directed by James Cameron, for which she received nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, and model. Her subsequent roles included a critically acclaimed performance in Bus Stop (1956) and her first independent production in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in Some Like It Hot (1959), a critical and commercial success. Her last completed film was the drama The Misfits (1961).
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Richard Burton
Richard Burton was a Welsh actor. Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. By the late 1960s, Burton was one of the highest-paid actors in the world, receiving fees of $1 million or more plus a share of the gross receipts.
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Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor, director, and producer. In the mid-1970s, Hopkins started a collaboration with Richard Attenborough who called him “the greatest actor of his generation”. In 1973, he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace.
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Meryl Streep
Mary Louise “Meryl” Streep is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for starring as a Holocaust survivor in Sophie’s Choice (1982) and had her biggest commercial success to that point in Out of Africa (1985).
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Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. He portrayed more mature characters at odds with the world in films such as The Fountainhead (1949) and High Noon (1952). In his final films, he played non-violent characters searching for redemption in films such as Friendly Persuasion (1956) and Man of the West (1958).
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Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country’s greatest male film stars. Sharif played opposite Peter O’Toole as Sherif Ali in the David Lean epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and portrayed the title role in Lean’s Doctor Zhivago (1965), earning him the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama.
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Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson is an American retired actor and filmmaker. His most known and celebrated films include dramas such as the road drama Easy Rider (1969), the drama Five Easy Pieces (1970), and the psychological drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).
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Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a production company, which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called “an alternative to the studio system”. Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama Gallipoli (1981), which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute, as well as a reputation as a serious, versatile actor.
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James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart was an American actor and military pilot. In the 1950s, Stewart played darker, more morally ambiguous characters in movies directed by Anthony Mann, including Winchester ’73 (1950), The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and The Naked Spur (1953), and by Alfred Hitchcock in Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958).
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Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall was a British actor, film director and photographer. As an adult, McDowall appeared most frequently as a character actor on radio, stage, film, and television. For portraying Octavian in the historical drama Cleopatra (1963), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
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Sophia Loren
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone is an Italian actress. She holds the record for having earned seven David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress: Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963); Marriage Italian Style (1964, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar); Sunflower (1970); The Voyage (1974); A Special Day (1977) and The Life Ahead (2020).
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Glenn Close
Glenn Close is an American actress. Her film debut came in the comedy drama The World According to Garp (1982), which was followed by supporting roles in the films The Big Chill (1983) and The Natural (1984); all three films earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956. She gained stardom from her performance in John Ford’s adventure-romance Mogambo (1953), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin was an American singer, actor and comedian of Italian descent. By the mid-1960s, Martin was a movie, recording, television, and nightclub star. Martin was acclaimed as Dude in Rio Bravo (1959), directed by Howard Hawks and also starring John Wayne and singer Ricky Nelson. He won a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in the 1960 film comedy Who Was That Lady?.
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Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, director, and narrator. His breakout role was in Street Smart (1987), playing a hustler, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He achieved further stardom in Glory (1989), the biographical drama Lean on Me (1989), and comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy (1989), the latter of which garnered him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
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Kathleen Turner
Mary Kathleen Turner is an American actress. Turner rose to fame during the 1980s, after roles in Body Heat (1981), The Man with Two Brains (1983), Crimes of Passion (1984), Romancing the Stone (1984), and Prizzi’s Honor (1985), the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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William Holden
William Holden was an American actor, one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood’s most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), and Picnic (1955).
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Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. His stardom and film career declined considerably after 1960. His most significant dramatic part came in 1968 when he starred in the true-life drama The Boston Strangler, which some consider his last major film role.
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Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor and filmmaker. He gained success in the 1970s crossing genres effortlessly in the western Little Big Man (1970), the prison drama Papillon (1973), and thriller Marathon Man (1976). He also played real life figures comedian Lenny Bruce in Bob Fosse’s Lenny (1975), and journalist Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men (1976).
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Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer is an American actress. Born and raised in Santa Ana, California, Pfeiffer briefly studied court stenography before deciding to pursue acting. Beginning her career with minor television and film appearances in 1978, she attained her first leading role in Grease 2 (1982), a critical and commercial failure in which she was distinguished as a positive exception.
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Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. She went on to star in a number of successful films such as Sabrina (1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden compete for her affection; Funny Face (1957), a musical where she sang her own parts, and the drama The Nun’s Story (1959).
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III was an American actor. His best known films include Mister Roberts (1955, for which he won the year’s Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Apartment (1960), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Irma la Douce (1963), and The Great Race (1965).
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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. is an American actor, director, producer and activist. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a reunion with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were.
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Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. In 1980, Fonda starred in 9 to 5 with Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. The film was a huge critical and box office success, becoming the second highest-grossing release of the year. Fonda continued to appear in feature films throughout the 1980s, winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her portrayal of a Kentucky mountain woman in The Dollmaker (1984), and starring in the role of Dr. Martha Livingston in Agnes of God (1985).
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British-American actress. She transitioned to mature roles in the 1950s, when she starred in the comedy Father of the Bride (1950) and received critical acclaim for her performance in the drama A Place in the Sun (1951).
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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor who had a career that spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villain in the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a box office success in Europe, now regarded as one of the best Westerns of all time.
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Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen Hackman is an American retired actor and novelist. Nominated for five Academy Awards, Hackman won Best Actor for his role as Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the critically acclaimed thriller The French Connection (1971) and Best Supporting Actor as “Little” Bill Daggett in Clint Eastwood’s Western film Unforgiven (1992).
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Bill Murray
William James Murray is an American actor and comedian, who is known for his deadpan delivery. He starred in comedy films such as Meatballs (1979), Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981), Tootsie (1982), Ghostbusters (1984), Scrooged (1988), and Ghostbusters II (1989).
Your score wasn’t good enough
You still have a lot to work on!
You just need to do a little better
You will surely passed next time!
You smashed it!
Great job!
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