Sentence examples for as a dramatic actor from inspiring English sources

Success in comedy kindled Mr. Curtis's ambitions as a dramatic actor.

He was given the lead in the play The Yankee Tourist and subsequently worked for several years as a dramatic actor in touring and stock theatrical companies.

Especially in his histories, he conceived of it as a dramatic actor: the vehicle of emotive as well as optical illumination; the agency of romantic disorientation or, in its absence, the demon of eclipse.

Stiller admits it is an uphill struggle to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor, despite the fact that his first big screen break was in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun in 1987.

Mr. Curtis made one final, ambitious attempt to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor with "The Boston Strangler" in 1968, putting on weight to play the suspected serial killer Albert DeSalvo.

Blake Edwards also had two movies released in 1962: a stylish thriller, "Experiment in Terror," and an uncompromising study of alcoholism, "Days of Wine and Roses," which was Jack Lemmon's first triumph as a dramatic actor.

After "Monster's Ball," people viewed Ledger in a different way, as more of a "dramatic actor," Alexander said. . "When I read 'Spiderman,' I talked to him about it and it was almost immediate that he said, 'That makes no sense for me.

As for Johnson, there's a dramatic actor waiting to break out of his sometimes comic, sometimes fiercely violent persona.

Rubin speaks in a tone that's both nasal and chipper — she's accessible, and not a dramatic actor, as most audiobook readers are.

Washed up for years, unsuccessful in his mid-90s attempts to get taken seriously as either a comic or a dramatic actor, the desperate, irrelevant Stallone has now slapped together Rocky Balboa, the sixth entry in this inane series.

Mr. Irons, a dramatic actor who has joked that he hopes he sings as well as Rex Harrison, did a fair amount of talk-singing.