Round 8: Tossup 10

This actor, James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli, and the notorious agent-cum-mobster Pat DiCicco were alleged to have beaten Three Stooges creator Ted Healy to death together. It’s not James Cagney, but this male actor first came to prominence by starring in nearly 30 films as the female maid Sweedie, one of which co-starred his first wife Gloria Swanson. The Coens claimed to be unaware of William Faulkner’s script doctoring on this actor’s movie Flesh when they referenced him as the star of the (*) “wrestling picture” to be written by Barton Fink. This actor, who played Professor Challenger in The Lost World and the Villain in Buster Keaton’s triptych Three Ages, was the second-billed male star under John Barrymore in Dinner at Eight and Grand Hotel. For 10 points, what highest-paid actor of the 1930s won a Best Actor Oscar for The Champ? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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