Sentence examples for actor against from inspiring English sources
LA court dismisses sex abuse claim by UK actor against Bryan Singer.
The programs are narrated by an actor against a background of music by the composer and others of the era, performed by Chamber Music Plus and guest musicians.
It won Borgnine not only the Oscar as Best Actor (against strong competition from James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, James Dean and Frank Sinatra), but the British Film Academy Award, the New York Critics Award and the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
There are few days that I don't think of his notion of "panging" to other worlds, or fail to remember him hurling an actor against a wall and screaming in his all too imitable voice, like a whining exhaust pipe with a broken silencer, "Act proper!" Or recall his description of a certain kind of hyper-realistic performance as "tie acting".
Trying on a range of accents that might give even Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean" pause, a guitar-strumming, increasingly growly Mr. Hawke suggests Johnny Cash and Tom Waits in turn, and the same actor against the odds cuts a commendably low-key, unsentimental Trofimov, the eternal student, in "The Cherry Orchard".
The decision to cast a renowned stage actor against type as a backwater racist is the one of which Saulnier is most proud.
First he used digital video cameras to shoot his actors against a plain background.
But, of course, unlike the Delluc and Vigo prizes, the Césars go to movie artists in all categories, offering France, too, a welcome chance to pit actors against actors and technicians against technicians.
He has made a few public missteps, like filming a TV spot in violation of the recent strike by unionized actors against commercial production.
But he is open to casting intelligent actors against type and then letting them bend, without breaking, the mold of archetypal parts in ways that seem surprisingly, ineffably right.
Wright could just as well have put his actors against a blank wall while pointing at them from the edge of the frame without diminishing the impact of their performance.
