I'm thinking of a person

[PastaJoe]

14 minutes ago, 4merper4mer said:

Was thinking of Hammill

On TV?

No, best known for movies.

9 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

    Musician?

No, but played one in a movie.

[Greybeard]

7 minutes ago, PastaJoe said:

No, best known for movies.

No, but played one in a movie.

       Did the actor die young?

 

[PastaJoe]

1 hour ago, Greybeard said:

       Did the actor die young?

 

No, he lived into his 80s.

[qwksilver]

Did he win any Academy Awards?

[SinceThe70s]

3 hours ago, PastaJoe said:

No, best known for movies.

No, but played one in a movie.

 

Was the musician he played in the movie a fictional character?

[Greybeard]

2 hours ago, PastaJoe said:

No, he lived into his 80s.

         Did he ever play in a movie with Kirk Douglas?

[PastaJoe]

1 hour ago, qwksilver said:

Did he win any Academy Awards?

Yes

1 hour ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Was the musician he played in the movie a fictional character?

No

[SinceThe70s]

1 hour ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Was the musician he played in the movie a fictional character?

 

Was he the lead actor in the movie where he played a musician? 

[PastaJoe]

54 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

         Did he ever play in a movie with Kirk Douglas?

Not that I’m aware of.

2 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Was he the lead actor in the movie where he played a musician? 

Yes

[qwksilver]

What decade did he die?

[PastaJoe]

9 hours ago, qwksilver said:

What decade did he die?

1990’s

[Greybeard]

1 hour ago, PastaJoe said:

1990’s

   Did he play a classical musician, rock musician or a jazz/swing musician.?

[PastaJoe]

1 hour ago, Greybeard said:

   Did he play a classical musician, rock musician or a jazz/swing musician.?

jazz/swing musician

[ExiledInIllinois]

Cab Calloway. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

Crap... Previous post... That's a whiff!  I missed some early clues early on.  Actor, playing a musician, right? NOT a musician as an actor,  playing a musician.   LoL... I am so confused! 😆 

Edited November 30, 2020 by ExiledInIllinois

[Greybeard]

2 hours ago, PastaJoe said:

jazz/swing musician

       This is a long shot.   When I was in first grade, the class saw a movie, I think the name of it was "the life of Benny Goodman."   If that wasn't the name of it, that is what it was about.  I always thought the guy looked like Steve Allen but I saw the movie on TV in the last couple of years and I thought I was wrong.  No doubt in my mind who the leading lady was in that movie.  So I am guessing Steve Allen, but I don't think he ever won an award for that.  Maybe TV. 

     By the way, I saw a drummer movie back then also.  I know the drummer but I have no idea who played him.

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 hour ago, Greybeard said:

       This is a long shot.   When I was in first grade, the class saw a movie, I think the name of it was "the life of Benny Goodman."   If that wasn't the name of it, that is what it was about.  I always thought the guy looked like Steve Allen but I saw the movie on TV in the last couple of years and I thought I was wrong.  No doubt in my mind who the leading lady was in that movie.  So I am guessing Steve Allen, but I don't think he ever won an award for that.  Maybe TV. 

     By the way, I saw a drummer movie back then also.  I know the drummer but I have no idea who played him.

Steve Allen died in 2000.  I thought of Benny  Goodman first. Forgot all about Steve Allen!

 

My mother really liked Glenn Miller... And loved all that era's music. 

 

I mean,  Cab Calloway fits.  But he was a musician being an actor.  Are the clues wrong?

[Greybeard]

25 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Steve Allen died in 2000.  I thought of Benny  Goodman first. Forgot all about Steve Allen!

 

My mother really liked Glenn Miller... And loved all that era's music. 

 

I mean,  Cab Calloway fits.  But he was a musician being an actor.  Are the clues wrong?

          He wasn't a musician but played one.  That rules out Cab.  There is also still Gene? Krupa.  I don't know who played Glenn Miller in the Glenn Miller movie or Gene in his movie, so I couldn't guess them.  I thought we were not suppose to look things up.  

        So he is looking for the actor that played them.  There may be others, but those are the only two other movies about musicians I can recall.

 

       I also like swing.  If you ever get a chance to see a band called Voodoo Daddy, use it.   I saw them at Turning Stone casino and they were great.

[PastaJoe]

1 hour ago, Greybeard said:

       This is a long shot.   When I was in first grade, the class saw a movie, I think the name of it was "the life of Benny Goodman."   If that wasn't the name of it, that is what it was about.  I always thought the guy looked like Steve Allen but I saw the movie on TV in the last couple of years and I thought I was wrong.  No doubt in my mind who the leading lady was in that movie.  So I am guessing Steve Allen, but I don't think he ever won an award for that.  Maybe TV. 

     By the way, I saw a drummer movie back then also.  I know the drummer but I have no idea who played him.

Bigger star than Steve Allen. Sal Mineo played drummer Gene Krupa, but it’s not him.

 

2 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Crap... Previous post... That's a whiff!  I missed some early clues early on.  Actor, playing a musician, right? NOT a musician as an actor,  playing a musician.   LoL... I am so confused! 😆 

Actor played musician.

1 minute ago, Greybeard said:

          He wasn't a musician but played one.  That rules out Cab.  There is also still Gene? Krupa.  I don't know who played Glenn Miller in the Glenn Miller movie or Gene in his movie, so I couldn't guess them.  I thought we were not suppose to look things up.  

        So he is looking for the actor that played them.  There may be others, but those are the only two other movies about musicians I can recall.

So close. It will be a wonderful thing when you get it.

[Greybeard]

2 minutes ago, PastaJoe said:

Bigger star than Steve Allen. Sal Mineo played drummer Gene Krupa, but it’s not him.

 

Actor played musician.

     For some reason I want to say James Stewart, but I have no idea why.