Possible Clues:

• *1956 Burt Lancaster film, with "The"
• Expert at increasing profits
• Profit-generating pro
• Big earner at a business
• Successful US employee who's responsible for cats and dogs?
• Misplaced remark about a sort of patient — one causing fall?
• Law-firm hotshot
• *One seeding clouds
• Who could make one build marine ark?
• Indian tribe V.I.P.