Sentence examples for comic eccentric from inspiring English sources

May 9, 1814 Dublin, Ireland June 7, 1880 New York City, New York John Brougham, (born May 9, 1814, Dublin, Ire. died June 7 , 1880 New York, N.Y., U.S ., Irish-born American author of more than 75 popular 19th-century plays, he was also a theatre manager and an actor who excelled in comic eccentric roles.

Kelly was a tall and flamboyant figure who was often cast as a comic, eccentric Irishman, notably as Albert Riddle, an incompetent, one-armed dish-washer in the late 1970s British sitcom Robin's Nest; he could always play up to stereotype, and beyond, in his extravagant facial and physical gestures.

There's no shortage of them; the modern cinema may even be said to have begun with several of these eccentrics, Georges Méliès and Max Linder among them, and French cinema is still producing comic eccentrics liberally.

She was a fine feminine foil as a young mother confronting two contrasted comic eccentrics - Edmund Gwenn's Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and Clifton Webb's Mr Belvedere in Sitting Pretty the following year.

Many new elements are introduced into Dickens's fictional world, but his handling of the old comic-eccentrics (such as Boffin, Wegg, and Venus) is sometimes tiresomely mechanical.

The trick here is to make this character an amusing eccentric but not a comic, and Delphi Harrington has a sure sense of the difference.

A younger contemporary of Duncan's was a vaudeville comic and eccentric dancer named Joe Frisco (1890-1958), who came to life again as a character in "Dirty Blonde," a portrait of Mae West that has been playing on Broadway since April.

During Amin's time in power, popular media outside of Uganda often portrayed him as an essentially comic and eccentric figure.

The first was a fairly ancient English comic standby: the eccentric, and the concept of eccentricity.

Swirling around him is an assortment of eccentric comic types.

The eccentric comic works that David Parker and the Bang Group presented on Thursday night were filled with tricky steps and deliberately cumbersome costumes.