Sentence examples for as a comic actor from inspiring English sources

Lowe's career as a comic actor was kickstarted a decade ago, after Richard Ayoade saw her in a play and cast her in the stage production of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

As a comic actor, David Haig can do no wrong.

As a comic actor, George C. Scott was, of course, aware of them.

Born in Dublin, he achieved fame as a comic actor and impresario in London.

Do you find that you have been slotted as a comic actor?

Mr. Rudd's arrival as a comic actor was also a return to his first love.

No, but he does suffer as intensely as Williams the hollowness of a comic actor running out of time and popular favour.

The younger George followed his father, first as a reporter and later on the stage; the 7-years-younger Weedon studied at the West London School of Art and had some success as a portrait painter before becoming a comic actor.

Without Falstaff the plays would be all but unthinkable, and in the current Stratford productions Falstaff is played by Desmond Barrit, who established a reputation as a great comic actor with his successes as Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" and Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Ron Moody, who has died aged 91, saw himself not as a great comic actor – above all as Fagin in Lionel Bart's Oliver! on stage and screen – but as a writer and as a composer of musicals.

It was a supporting role, yet it revealed her as a consummate comic actor.