Name this actor

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:29 am

He was the only actor to receive two Academy Awards for the same role.

Name the actor, the movie and the role.

Funkywhiteboy · Post by **Funkywhiteboy** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:23 am

In the same film? :?

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:41 pm

I heard this trivia question prosed once before but I damn sure don't remember the answer

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:56 pm

Funkywhiteboy wrote:In the same film? :?

Yeah, it was in the same film.

The Assassin · Post by **The Assassin** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:57 pm

Clint Eastwood for Unforgiven?

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:21 pm

1946

Harold Russell as "Homer Parrish" in The Best Years of Our Lives.

http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_ ... 4294139250

Bobby42 · Post by **Bobby42** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:31 pm

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:1946

Harold Russell as "Homer Parrish" in The Best Years of Our Lives

Outstanding. Good job.

Russell was also the first and perhaps the only person to sell off his Oscar in 1992 for $60,000.00 when his wife was dying. Russell made occasional TV and movie roles since "The Best Years of Our Lives." One of them was "Inside Moves" directed by Richard Donner. Russell died in 2002 at the age of 88.

Russell's girlfriend Wilma (Cathy O'Donnell) in the TBYOL died in 1970.

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:00 pm

I wish I could say I knew it off the top of my head, but I was just the first (or perhaps, only) person to look it up.

My first guess before looking it up was Peter Sellers for Dr. Strangelove, but I knew that wasn't right because even if he had been nominated for best actor and supporting actor, it wouldn't have been for the same role. I'd never heard of Harold Russell or TBYOL before looking it up.

Funkywhiteboy · Post by **Funkywhiteboy** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:47 am

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Harold Russell as "Homer Parrish" in The Best Years of Our Lives.

Any relation to Jane, Kurt, or Nipsey? :P

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Fri May 06, 2005 1:06 pm

Toddowen wrote:He must've been that amputee.

Pretty pathetic of Hollywood to award two oscars to him.

rack. i laughed.

Funkywhiteboy · Post by **Funkywhiteboy** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:15 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:
Toddowen wrote:He must've been that amputee.

Pretty pathetic of Hollywood to award two oscars to him.
rack. i laughed.

Actually, it makes sense.
One for the dialogue, the other for one of his legs to act as if it was missing. :twisted: