Round 3: Tossup 9

A teacher played by this actor locks his wife in a closet and tries to re-enact Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac by stabbing his son in a frenzy induced by his addiction to cortisone. This actor starred in Roman Polanski’s (15[1])favorite film, a 1947 noir in which a cabbie, a painter, a birdman, and other commonfolk try to thwart Belfast police from capturing an injured nationalist played by this actor. This star of Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life and Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out played a villain who remarks “that wasn’t very sporting, using (*) real bullets” when a park ranger shoots a man holding a Mexican statue filled with film reels. That villain played by this actor owns a building that was designed to resemble Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and is built into a cliff near Mount Rushmore. For 10 points, name this actor who played the villain of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. ■END■ (0[1])

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