Don Siegal Quiz Questions and Answers
1. In which city was Joseph Losey born?
a) New York City, New York
b) La Crosse, Wisconsin
c) Chicago, Illinois
d) Los Angeles, California
Answer: b) La Crosse, Wisconsin
2. What was Joseph Losey’s primary field of study before he pursued theatre and film?
a) Law
b) Medicine
c) Engineering
d) Literature
Answer: b) Medicine
3. Which famous theatre practitioner did Losey study with in Germany?
a) Konstantin Stanislavski
b) Antonin Artaud
c) Bertolt Brecht
d) Erwin Piscator
Answer: c) Bertolt Brecht
4. Why was Joseph Losey blacklisted in Hollywood during the 1950s?
a) Financial misconduct
b) Alleged Communist affiliations
c) Creative disputes with studios
d) Refusal to work with major actors
Answer: b) Alleged Communist affiliations
5. In which country did Losey primarily work after being blacklisted?
a) France
b) Italy
c) United Kingdom
d) Germany
Answer: c) United Kingdom
6. Which of Losey’s films won the César Awards for Best Film and Best Director?
a) The Servant
b) The Go-Between
c) Monsieur Klein
d) Accident
Answer: c) Monsieur Klein
7. Which playwright wrote the screenplays for Losey’s films The Servant and The Go-Between?
a) Tom Stoppard
b) Harold Pinter
c) David Mercer
d) John Osborne
Answer: b) Harold Pinter
8. What was the title of Joseph Losey’s first feature film?
a) The Boy with Green Hair
b) The Prowler
c) The Lawless
d) M
Answer: a) The Boy with Green Hair
9. Which film earned Losey a nomination for an Academy Award in 1945?
a) A Gun in His Hand
b) The Boy with Green Hair
c) Pete Roleum and His Cousins
d) The Sleeping Tiger
Answer: a) A Gun in His Hand
10. What pseudonym did Losey use for his first British film, The Sleeping Tiger?
a) Joseph Walton
b) Victor Hanbury
c) Alec C. Snowden
d) Andrea Forzano
Answer: b) Victor Hanbury
11. Which Losey film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1971?
a) The Servant
b) Accident
c) The Go-Between
d) Monsieur Klein
Answer: c) The Go-Between
12. In which year was Joseph Losey born?
a) 1905
b) 1909
c) 1912
d) 1915
Answer: b) 1909
13. Where did Losey die?
a) New York City, USA
b) Paris, France
c) London, England
d) Los Angeles, USA
Answer: c) London, England
14. Which Losey film is a remake of Fritz Lang’s M?
a) The Prowler
b) M (1951)
c) The Criminal
d) The Lawless
Answer: b) M (1951)
15. Which university did Losey attend for his undergraduate studies?
a) Dartmouth College
b) Yale University
c) Columbia University
d) University of Wisconsin
Answer: a) Dartmouth College
16. Which Losey film features a young Dean Stockwell as a war orphan?
a) The Lawless
b) The Boy with Green Hair
c) The Prowler
d) The Sleeping Tiger
Answer: b) The Boy with Green Hair
17. What was the name of the play Losey directed with Bertolt Brecht and Charles Laughton in 1947?
a) Mother Courage and Her Children
b) The Caucasian Chalk Circle
c) Galileo
d) The Good Person of Szechwan
Answer: c) Galileo
18. Which Losey film is a cinematic adaptation of a Mozart opera?
a) Don Giovanni
b) The Marriage of Figaro
c) The Magic Flute
d) Così fan tutte
Answer: a) Don Giovanni
19. What was the name of Losey’s first wife?
a) Dorothy Bromiley
b) Patricia Mohan
c) Elizabeth Hawes
d) Jeanne Moreau
Answer: c) Elizabeth Hawes
20. Which actor played the lead in Losey’s The Servant (1963)?
a) Alan Bates
b) Dirk Bogarde
c) Stanley Baker
d) Michael Caine
Answer: b) Dirk Bogarde
21. What was the title of Losey’s last film, completed in 1984?
a) Steaming
b) Don Giovanni
c) The Romantic Englishwoman
d) Monsieur Klein
Answer: a) Steaming
22. Which Losey film is a noir crime thriller made under a pseudonym?
a) The Sleeping Tiger
b) The Go-Between
c) Accident
d) Eva
Answer: a) The Sleeping Tiger
23. In which year did Losey visit the Soviet Union to study the Russian stage?
a) 1931
b) 1935
c) 1939
d) 1945
Answer: b) 1935
24. Which Losey film addresses racial prejudice?
a) The Prowler
b) The Lawless
c) The Criminal
d) Modesty Blaise
Answer: b) The Lawless
25. Who played the lead role in Losey’s Monsieur Klein (1976)?
a) Alain Delon
b) Dirk Bogarde
c) Stanley Baker
d) Jeanne Moreau
Answer: a) Alain Delon