• actor Peter Falk, the affable detective in the long-running TV series Columbo, was propelled to stardom by portraying a vicious killer in the 1960 film Murder, Inc.?

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James Stewart (actor)

• It's a Wonderful Life actors Jimmy Stewart and William Edmunds appeared in two other movies together, The Shop Around the Corner and The Mortal Storm?
• actor Michael Sharrett played the grandson of Clovis, played by Jimmy Stewart, in the 1978 musical film The Magic of Lassie?
• the bombing of Zurich in World War II led to court martial proceedings with Jimmy Stewart as presiding officer?

Laurence Olivier

• Broadway producer Jed Harris was the inspiration for both Laurence Olivier's interpretation of Richard III, and Walt Disney's Big Bad Wolf?