Round 7: Tossup 11

This actor smiles in flashing negative shots in reaction to mishaps like a pig breaking its leg. Bernard Hermann arranged the sinister version of “Pop Goes the Weasel” that this actor fiddles in a barn after the birth of a farmer’s son. This actor was supposedly forced to remove his dentures for a role in which he saves the life of a Native American boy and is fanned in gratitude while relaxing in a hammock. This actor argues against Edward Arnold (15[1])as Old Scratch in the 1941 version of The (10[1])(*) Devil and Daniel Webster. A wheezy laugh and a crazed dance are among the prospector stereotypes this actor originated in an adaptation of a B. Traven novel. For 10 points, the old miner in Treasure of the Sierra Madre was played by what father of director John? (10[1])■END■

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