Sentence examples for actor manager from inspiring English sources

And in style and temperament, he was an actor manager.

He returned happily to Broadway in 1981, playing the bombastic actor manager "Sir" (based on Donald Wolfit) in Ronald Harwood's The Dresser, opposite a marvellously mincing Tom Courtenay.

He was an ambitious actor-manager.

In seven years, applying his actor-manager skills, he raised that figure to more than £20m.

There is, however, a vast difference between Olivier and Branagh as actor-manager.

Sweeping things along in his own image, he looks and behaves like a Victorian actor-manager.

It was like having a great actor-manager and his ensemble as lodgers.

You also functioned as actor-manager, helping to put the production together.

The words "actor-manager" have, in Britain, a faintly pejorative ring.

The 19th century was the heyday of the actor-manager system: star, licensee of the theatre, and arranger of the performance, the actor-manager dominated every aspect of a play's production.

He trained at Rada, and worked as a dresser for actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit.