Can You Name These 60s Actors?
By Sophia Maddox | May 19, 2023
Can You Name These 60s Actors?
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Ellen Burstyn or Audrey Hepburn?
Correct Answer: Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian. Recognized as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood, and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Barbra Streisand or Annette Funicello?
Correct Answer: Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Linda Blair or Claudia Cardinale?
Correct Answer: Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale is an Italian Tunisian film actress and sex symbol who appeared in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in several English films. Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Clint Eastwood or Robert De Niro?
Correct Answer: Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. 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 1960s.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Gena Rowlands or Diane Keaton?
Correct Answer: Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands is an American actress, whose career in film, stage, and television has spanned over six decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Sissy Spacek or Anouk Aimée?
Correct Answer: Anouk Aimée
Anouk Aimée is a French film actress, who has appeared in 70 films since 1947, having begun her film career at age 14. In her early years she studied acting and dance besides her regular education. Although the majority of her films were French, she also made a number of films in Spain, Great Britain, Italy and Germany, along with some American productions.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Annette Funicello or Margot Kidder?
Correct Answer: Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello was an American actress and singer. Funicello began her professional career as a child performer at the age of twelve. She rose to prominence as one of the most popular Mouseketeers on the original Mickey Mouse Club.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Karen Black or Catherine Deneuve?
Correct Answer: Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model and producer. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties for various directors, including Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut and Roman Polanski. In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, France's national symbol of liberty.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Steve McQueen or Gene Hackman?
Correct Answer: Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen was called "The King of Cool", whose "anti-hero" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s and made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Elizabeth Taylor or Veronica Cartwright?
Correct Answer: Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Julie Andrews or Jessica Harper?
Correct Answer: Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, and author. Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend (1954). She rose to prominence starring in Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady (1956), playing Eliza Doolittle, and Camelot (1960), playing Queen Guinevere.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Carol Kane or Natalie Wood?
Correct Answer: Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood was a Russian-American actress. Wood began her career in film as a child and became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult, receiving three Academy Award nominations before she turned 25 years old.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Jack Nicholson or Warren Beatty?
Correct Answer: Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Shelley Duvall or Brigitte Bardot?
Correct Answer: Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot is a French actress, singer, dancer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials, B.B.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Susannah York or Janet Leigh?
Correct Answer: Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at age eighteen by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Susannah York or Nancy Kyes?
Correct Answer: Susannah York
Susannah York was an English film, stage, and television actress. She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film, and won the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for Images.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it P.J. Soles or Vera Miles?
Correct Answer: Vera Miles
Vera Miles is a retired American actress who worked closely with Alfred Hitchcock, most notably as Lila Crane in the classic 1960 film Psycho, reprising the role in the 1983 sequel Psycho II. Other films in which she appeared include Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955), The Searchers (1956), and Follow Me, Boys! (1966).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Paul Newman or Dustin Hoffman?
Correct Answer: Paul Newman
Paul Newman was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Isabelle Adjani or Shirley MacLaine?
Correct Answer: Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine is an American film, television, and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author. An Academy Award winner, MacLaine received the 40th AFI Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 2012, and received the Kennedy Center Honors for her lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts in 2013.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Anne Bancroft or Carrie Fisher?
Correct Answer: Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft was an American actress, director, screenwriter and singer associated with the method acting school, having studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was acknowledged for her work in film, theatre and television.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Marilyn Burns or Katharine Ross?
Correct Answer: Katharine Ross
Katharine Ross is an American film and stage actress. She had starring roles in three of the most popular films of the 1960s and 1970s: as Elaine Robinson in The Graduate (1967), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; as Etta Place in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Teri Garr or Julie Christie?
Correct Answer: Julie Christie
Julie Christie is a British actress. An icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has received such accolades as an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films that were ranked in the British Film Institute's 100 greatest British films of the 20th century.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Piper Laurie or Deborah Kerr?
Correct Answer: Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr was a Scottish film, theatre and television actress. During her career, she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the musical film The King and I (1956) and a Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy (a role she originated on Broadway).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Amy Irving or Vanessa Redgrave?
Correct Answer: Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress of stage, screen and television, and a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and received the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Olivia Hussey or Sandy Dennis?
Correct Answer: Sandy Dennis
Sandy Dennis was an American theater and film actress. At the height of her career in the 1960s she won two Tony Awards, as well as an Oscar for her performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Sophia Loren or Sandra Milo?
Correct Answer: Sandra Milo
Sandra Milo is an Italian actress. She won a Silver Ribbon best supporting actress award for each of her roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits. She made her film debut in 1955 alongside Alberto Sordi in The Bachelor. Her first major role came in 1959 thanks to the producer Moris Ergas, in General della Rovere, directed by Roberto Rossellini.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Rock Hudson or Burt Lancaster?
Correct Answer: Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Viewed as a prominent "heartthrob" of the Hollywood Golden Age, he achieved stardom with roles in films such as Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Giant (1956).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Goldie Hawn or Sophia Loren?
Correct Answer: Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren, Dame of the Grand Cross, O.M.R.I., is an Italian film actress and singer. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career in 1950 at age 16. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Charlton Heston or Jean-Paul Belmondo?
Correct Answer: Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and one of the biggest French film stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. His best known credits include Breathless (1960) and That Man from Rio (1964).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Jack Lemmon or Sean Connery?
Correct Answer: Sean Connery
Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award). Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Kirk Douglas or Rod Steiger?
Correct Answer: Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas is an American actor, producer, director, and author. He is one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he had his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Peter Fonda or Robert Redford?
Correct Answer: Robert Redford
Robert Redford is an American actor, director, producer, and businessman. He is the founder of
the Sundance Film Festival. Redford began acting on television in the early 1960s. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Jane Fonda or Jane Seymour?
Correct Answer: Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She is a two-time Academy Award winner, two-time BAFTA Award winner, and four-time Golden Globe Award winner. In 2014, Fonda was the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2017, she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice Film Festival.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Martin Sheen or Peter O'Toole?
Correct Answer: Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole was a British stage and film actor of Irish descent. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company before making his film debut in 1959.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Kris Kristofferson or Richard Beymer?
Correct Answer: Richard Beymer
Richard Beymer is an American actor, filmmaker and artist who is best known for playing the roles of Tony in the film version of West Side Story (1961), Peter in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and Ben Horne on the television series Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Anthony Perkins or Roy Scheider?
Correct Answer: Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins was an American actor and singer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his second film, Friendly Persuasion, but is best known for playing Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and its three sequels.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it John Cassavetes or Michael Douglas?
Correct Answer: John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. Cassavetes was a pioneer of American independent film, writing and directing over a dozen movies, which he partially self-financed, and pioneered the use of improvisation and a cinéma vérité style.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Stefania Sandrelli or Brooke Shields?
Correct Answer: Stefania Sandrelli
Stefania Sandrelli is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from the 1960s. She was 14 years old when she starred in Divorce, Italian Style, as Angela, the cousin and love interest of Ferdinando, played by Marcello Mastroianni.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it John Travolta or Alain Delon?
Correct Answer: Alain Delon
Alain Delon is a French actor and businessman. Delon became one of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols in the 1960s. He achieved critical acclaim for roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Purple Noon (1960), L'Eclisse (1962), The Leopard (1963), The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965), Lost Command (1966) and Le Samouraï (1967).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Richard Chamberlain or Peter Graves?
Correct Answer: Peter Graves
Peter Graves was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Jim Phelps in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 (original) and from 1988 to 1990 (revival). His elder brother was actor James Arness (1923–2011).
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Dennis Hopper or Greg Morris?
Correct Answer: Greg Morris
Greg Morris was an American actor. He was best known for portraying Barney Collier in Mission: Impossible. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, to the jazz trumpeter Francis Williams, Morris served in the United States Army during the Korean War. Morris began his acting career in the 1960s making guest appearances on many TV shows such as The Twilight Zone, Branded and Ben Casey.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Burt Reynolds or Elvis Presley?
Correct Answer: Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply the "King". His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Jayne Mansfield or Sally Field?
Correct Answer: Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actress. She was also a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol during the 1950s and early 1960s, while under contract at 20th Century Fox.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Klaus Kinski or George Takei?
Correct Answer: George Takei
George Takei is an American actor, director, author, and activist. He is best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek. He also portrayed the character in six Star Trek feature films and one episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it John Cleese or Dick Van Dyke?
Correct Answer: Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, writer, and producer. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke and father of Barry Van Dyke, and his entertainment career has spanned seven decades. He first gained recognition on radio and Broadway, then he became known for his role as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran from 1961 to 1966.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Frankie Avalon or Richard Pryor?
Correct Answer: Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon is an Italian American actor, singer, and former teen idol. Avalon was born in Philadelphia, the son of Mary and Nicholas Avallone. In December 1952, Avalon made his American network television debut playing the trumpet in the Honeymooners "Christmas Party" sketch on The Jackie Gleason Show.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Peter Fonda or George Peppard?
Correct Answer: George Peppard
George Peppard was an American film and television actor. Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964). On television, he played the title role of millionaire insurance investigator and sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s mystery series Banacek.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it George Segal or William Shatner?
Correct Answer: William Shatner
William Shatner is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director. In his seven decades of television, Shatner became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the Star Trek franchise. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek, and has co-written several novels set in the Star Trek universe.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Keir Dullea or Warren Oates?
Correct Answer: Keir Dullea
Keir Dullea is an American actor best known for his portrayals of astronaut David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact. His other film roles include Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) and Black Christmas (1974). He studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.
Name This 60s Actor!
Is it Jeff Bridges or Dustin Hoffman?
Correct Answer: Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman is an American actor and director. Hoffman has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters. He is the recipient of various accolades including; two Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Genie Award.
