For as James Marsh noted on Robert's birthday in this Have-Your-Say article, he is "arguably the greatest American actor of his generation". And when you wanted to go see a film, and Robert De Niro was in it, for a few decades that was (quoting James again) "a solid gold stamp of thespian quality in what was probably going to be a pretty damn good film too".
So true. Even when I started browsing for screenshots I noticed how many classics weren't even going to be in this quiz. There are just too many of them!
Therefore, once again I'm going to use fifteen pictures of one of my favourite thespians to make a quiz. Click through the images, and guess which movies or shows they're from. No competition, no prizes, just for fun, try to see how far you get without using IMDb!
And I'll post the answers next Thursday, or earlier if someone gets all fifteen of them right.
Here he is as the intern in The Intern.
This picture doesn't count yet for the quiz, but all others do. So please browse through the gallery: click on the edge of the picture to get the next one, and see how many of them all you can identify!
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