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Best British and Irish Actors

Name the British Actors, given the clues of their initials and one of their many films
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Actor's Initials
One of their Films
Answer
JA (female)
The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews
RA (male)
Johnny English
Rowan Atkinson
RA (male)
Jurassic Park
Richard Attenborough
CB (male)
Dark Knight
Christian Bale
SB (male)
Lord of the Rings
Sean Bean
KB (female)
Pearl Harbor
Kate Beckinsale
PB (male)
Priest
Paul Bettany
HB (female)
Goldfinger
Honor Blackman
BB (female)
Saving Grace
Brenda Blethyn
OB (male)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Orlando Bloom
EB (female)
The Devil Wears Prada
Emily Blunt
DB (male)
A Bridge Too Far
Dirk Bogarde
HBC (femald)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Helena Bonham Carter
HB (male)
Downton Abbey
Hugh Bonneville
KB (male)
Henry V
Kenneth Branagh
JB (male)
Hot Fuzz
Jim Broadbent
PB (male)
Goldeneye
Pierce Brosnan
RB (male)
Where Eagles Dare
Richard Burton
GB (male)
Olympus has Fallen
Gerard Butler
MC (male)
Zulu
Michael Caine
SC (male)
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Simon Callow
RC (male)
Trainspotting
Robert Carlyle
CC (male)
The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin
HC (male)
Man of Steel
Henry Cavill
JC (male)
A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese
OC (female)
The Crown
Olivia Colman
RC (male)
Harry Potter series
Robbie Coltrane
SC (male)
The Untouchables
Sean Connery
BC (male)
Mrs Brown
Billy Connolly
TC (male)
Shirley Valentine
Tom Conti
DC (male)
Casino Royale
Daniel Craig
BC (male)
The Imitation Game
Benedict Cumberbatch
TC (male)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry
PC (male)
Dracula
Peter Cushing
TD (male)
Licence to Kill
Timothy Dalton
CD (male)
Gosford Park
Charles Dance
WD (male)
Willow
Warwick Davis
DDL (male)
There Will be Blood
Daniel Day Lewis
JD (female)
Skyfall
Judi Dench
CE (male)
28 Days Later
Christopher Eccleston
CE (male)
12 Years a Slave
Chiwetel Ejiofor
IE (male)
Beasts of No Nation
Idris Elba
TE (male)
Heat of the Sun
Trevor Eve
RE (male)
My Best Friend's Wedding
Rupert Everett
CF (male)
The Gentlemen
Colin Farrell
RF (male)
The Great Budapest Hotel
Ralph Fiennes
PF (male)
Network
Peter Finch
FF (male)
The Pianist
Frank Finlay
AF (male)
Erin Brockovich
Albert Finney
CF (male)
The King's Speech
Colin Firth
EF (female)
The Soul Keeper
Emilia Fox
EF (male)
The Day of the Jackal
Edward Fox
JF (male)
The Remains of the Day
James Fox
MF (male)
The Hobbit
Martin Freeman
AF (female)
Land of the Lost
Anna Friel
MG (male)
Gosford Park
Michael Gambon
CG (male)
North by Northwest
Cary Grant
HG (male)
Love Actually
Hugh Grant
JG (male)
Richard III
John Gielgud
AG (male)
Star Wars
Alec Guinness
SH (female)
Monte Carlo or Bust
Susan Hampshire
RH (male)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Robert Hardy
TH (male)
Inception
Tom Hardy
RH (male)
Unforgiven
Richard Harris
RH (male)
My Fair Lady
Rex Harrison
TH (male)
The Avengers
Tom Hiddlestone
TH (male)
The Impossible
Tom Holland
AH (male)
Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins
BH (male)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Bob Hoskins
TH (male)
Brief Encounter
Trevor Howard
JH (male)
Elephant Man
John Hurt
CI (female)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Celia Imrie
JI (male)
Lolita
Jeremy Irons
JI (male)
The Death of Stalin
Jason Isaacs
GJ (female)
Women in Love
Glenda Jackson
Actor's Initials
One of their Films
Answer
DJ (male)
Gladiator
Derek Jacobi
TJ (male)
Divergent
Theo James
TJ (male)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Toby Jones
BK (male)
The Mummy
Boris Karloff
BK (male)
Gandhi
Ben Kingsley
KK (female)
Atonement
Kiera Knightley
CL (male)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Charles Laughton
HL (male)
Flight of the Phoenix
Hugh Laurie
JL (male)
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jude Law
CL (male)
The Wicker Man
Christopher Lee
DL (male)
Spy Wars
Damien Lewis
AL (male)
The Walking Dead
Andrew Lincoln
JM (male)
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
James Mason
JM (male)
Filth
James McAvoy
MM (male)
Clockwork Orange
Malcolm McDowell
MM (male)
Frost/Nixon
Matthew Macfadyen
EM (male)
Moulin Rouge
Ewan McGregor
IM (male)
Lord of the Rings
Ian McKellan
IM (male)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Ian McShane
HM (female)
The Parent Trap
Hayley Mills
HM (female)
The Queen
Helen Mirren
KM (male)
The 39 Steps
Kenneth More
RM (male)
Live and Let Die
Roger Moore
LN (male)
Schindler's List
Liam Neeson
AN (male)
Doctor Doolittle
Anthony Newley
ONJ (female)
Grease
Olivia Newton-John
BN (male)
The Boat That Rocked
Bill Nighy
DN (male)
The Guns of Navarone
David Niven
GO (male)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman
LO (male)
Hamlet
Laurence Olivier
POT (male)
Lawrence of Arabia
Peter O'Toole
CO (male)
Gemini Man
Clive Owen
SP (male)
Shaun of the Dead
Simon Pegg
AP (male)
Psycho
Anthony Perkins
DP (male)
Halloween
Donald Pleasance
PP (male)
The Usual Suspects
Pete Postlethwaite
RP (male)
Jesus of Nazareth
Robert Powell
AQ (male)
Ice Cold in Alex
Anthony Quayle
DR (male)
The Woman in Black
Daniel Radcliffe
CR (female)
45 Years
Charlotte Rampling
BR (male)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Basil Rathbone
VR (female)
Atonement
Vanessa Redgrave
ER (male)
The Theory of Everything
Eddie Redmayne
OR (male)
The Devils
Oliver Reed
AR (male)
Die Hard
Alan Rickman
DR (female)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diana Rigg
TR (male)
Reservoir Dogs
Tim Roth
MR (female)
Murder, She Said
Margaret Rutherford
KST (female)
The English Patient
Kirstin Scott Thomas
PS (male)
The Pink Panther
Peter Sellers
DS (male)
The Cruel Sea
Donald Sinden
MS (male)
Underworld
Michael Sheen
MS (female)
Gosford Park
Maggie Smith
MS (male)
Dr. Who
Matt Smith
TS (male)
Sweeney Todd
Timothy Spall
TS (male)
Superman II
Terence Stamp
JS (male)
Fast & Furious
Jason Statham
AS (female)
Life is Sweet
Alison Steadman
PS (male)
Logan
Patrick Stewart
DS (male)
Murder on the Orient Express
David Suchet
TS (female)
We Need to Talk about Kevin
Tilda Swinton
ET (female)
Cleopatra
Elizabeth Taylor
DT (male)
Doctor Who
David Tennant
DT (male)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
David Thewlis
ET (female)
Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson
RT (male)
The Dam Busters
Richard Todd
DT (male)
Mary Poppins
David Tomlinson
PU (male)
Death on the Nile
Peter Ustinov
JW (female)
Mamma Mia
Julie Walters
EW (female)
Little Women
Emma Watson
HW (male)
Lord of the Rings
Hugo Weaving
TW (male)
Michael Clayton
Tom Wilkinson
KW (female)
Titanic
Kate Winslet
MY (male)
Cabaret
Michael York
CZJ (female)
Chicago
Catherine Zeta Jones
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Level 26
Dec 17, 2021
Pierce Brosnan

Gerard Butler

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Level 50
Dec 18, 2021
Thank you so much for your corrections - all better now.
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Level 48
Dec 25, 2022
Dirk Bogart is wrongly spelled , its Dirk BOGARDE

Bogart is another actor....that went by Humphrey

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Level 50
Jan 1, 2023
Thank you so much for your correction - all as it should be now!!
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Level 23
Jul 6, 2023
A fun quiz to play. Just a note on Colin Farrell, Pierce Brosnan, and Richard Harris though, who are all Irish and so not British
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Level 50
Jul 7, 2023
Of course they are - silly me. Will amend quiz title. Thank you !!