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 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 (15[1])actor. (-5[1])This star of Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life and Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out (15[1])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 (10[1])to resemble Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and is built into a cliff (10[1])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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