Sentence examples for a distinguished actor from inspiring English sources

After an unexceptional early career he developed into a distinguished actor and by 1824 was leading player at the Chatham Garden Theatre, and later at the Covent Garden.

She has come to seek the help of an acting teacher who was once a distinguished actor and now has a major chip on his shoulder.

His father, Sir Michael, was both a great classical actor and a popular film star; his mother, Rachel Kempson, was also a distinguished actor.

Austrian by birth, Swiss by circumstance and international by reputation, Maximilian Schell, who has died aged 83, was a distinguished actor, director, writer and producer.

Pendleton is also a distinguished actor and director; he relishes the world he describes, and he knows well the games that actors play with one another and with themselves.

Among the reasons: it is the first movie adaptation of Anna Leonowens's own account of her experiences; it is the Hollywood film debut of Mr. Harrison, already a distinguished actor in Britain; and it earned five Oscar nominations.

A distinguished actor-director had been invited by a local theatre to direct a season of classical and avant-garde plays, taking several lead roles himself.

I love the Academy Awards and I'm always a "sap" when it comes to watching an accomplished and distinguished actor moved to tears of emotion or maybe a rambling, discombobulated speech because of the fact the OSCAR meant so much to the him or her.

A notorious 1849 riot in New York pitted supporters of a distinguished British actor's production of "Macbeth" against a working-class American actor's turn in the role it was billed, in a contemporary pamphlet, as a clash of "the aristocracy against the people".

John Drew Devereaux, the young actor who has been playing one of Clarence Day's sons for almost a decade, was introduced to a distinguished British actor, recently arrived, "This is John Drew Devereaux," said the intermediary, "the grandson of that great American actor John Drew, of whom you have doubtless heard".

The New Yorker, December 4 , 1948P. 25 John Drew Devereaux, the young actor who has been playing one of Clarence Day's sons for almost a decade, was introduced to a distinguished British actor, recently arrived, "This is John Drew Devereaux," said the intermediary, "the grandson of that great American actor John Drew, of whom you have doubtless heard".