The phrase "an old role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a position or function that someone has held in the past, often implying that it is no longer current or relevant.
Example: "After years of working in marketing, she decided to return to an old role in sales that she had enjoyed."
Alternatives: "a previous position" or "a former role".
Each songwriter has taken up an old role, culturally ordained.
It's an old role for him and still doesn't look codified.
As he suspended his dyspeptic and somnolent campaign for president, former Virginia senator Jim Webb rediscovered an old role: a source of pride for Republicans.
Elena is clinging to an old role, the person in charge of the hotel, when she needs to abandon that and find what she has to do now that one's profession and loyalty to an employer has been rendered obsolete.
The affable comic actor talked to us about returning to an old role, Judd Apatow's style of working and why he doesn't share Pete's problems.
In November she returned to an old role as the Egyptian queen in a scene from "Antony and Cleopatra" at the 50th anniversary of Britain's National Theatre, where she got her start.
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I realised, after time, that I was not, of course, the queen of an exclusive coterie of admirers that I had thought myself, but entirely normal in my love for an older role model.
And if Wiggins seems too inexperienced to feel completely natural onscreen, the patented mix of ache and rage that Paul honed for years on "Breaking Bad" serves him well in an older role.
He even reverted, for a single evening, to his old role as a cello virtuoso at a command performance before Emperor Franz Joseph.
Birdman stars Michael Keaton as a Hollywood actor struggling to shake off his old role in a superhero franchise by staging an adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story.
