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Name Dropping #49: Best Actor Oscars (1951-1960)

Complete the name of each actor by evaluating the hints and selecting the actor’s surname from among the choices provided. The principle hint is the actor’s forename(s). The additional hint contains a designation of whether the Oscar Award earned was for Best Actor (BA) or Best Supporting Actor (BSA), the year of the awards ceremony and the title of the film for which the performance was recognized.

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Alec
BA, 1957, The Bridge on the River Kwai
Karl
BSA, 1951, A Streetcar Named Desire
Red
BSA, 1957, Sayonara
William
BA, 1953, Stalag 17
Anthony
BSA, 1952, Viva Zapata!
Frank
BSA, 1953, From Here to Eternity
Jack
BSA, 1955, Mister Roberts
Burt
BA, 1960, Elmer Gantry
Yul
BA, 1956, The King and I
David
BA, 1958, Separate Tables
Peter
BSA, 1960, Spartacus
Edmond
BSA, 1954, The Barefoot Contessa
Marlon
BA, 1954, On the Waterfront
Hugh
BSA, 1959, Ben-Hur
Humphrey
BA, 1951, The African Queen
Gary
BA, 1952, High Noon
Ernest
BA, 1955, Marty
Charlton
BA, 1959, Ben-Hur
Anthony
BSA, 1956, Lust for Life
Burl
BSA, 1958, The Big Country
Bogart
Borgnine
Brando
Brynner
Buttons
Cooper
Griffith
Guinness
Heston
Holden
Ives
Lancaster
Lemmon
Malden
Niven
O’Brien
Quinn
Sinatra
Ustinov
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