Sentence examples for headliner actor from inspiring English sources

A.: Jimmy Durante, the big-nosed vaudeville headliner, actor, radio comedian and television star who died in 1980, never explained his signature farewell, but a number of theories have been advanced by Schnozzola scholars.

(Another headliner, the actor Gérard Depardieu, canceled only hours before the event, for unexplained reasons).

Mr. Rickles has fond memories of the small New Jersey clubs he played in places like Bayonne and Wildwood on his way to becoming a comic headliner and an actor.

His father, James, was the headliner, a ham actor, whose matinée-idol posturing and self-delusion prompted his brilliant son to run away and cook up a new kind of realism — fuelled by European-influenced ideas about angst and hopped up on the American vernacular.

Including such headliners as the post-Gray monologuist Eric Bogosian and the actor James Urbaniak, the ever-droll thinking woman's pinup, the evening — which will also include an art auction — honors Gray's commitment to the individuality of the artist.

When supporters did begin their push, their headliners were the rap group the Sugarhill Gang and Michael J. Fox, the actor with Parkinson's disease who also played a role in the passage of California's ballot measure.

A straight Canadian-born actor may seem an unlikely draw for an AIDS fund-raiser, whose headliners are typically gay icons like Liza Minnelli and Elton John.

But Jagr was the headliner.

It needs a challenging headliner.

Veal is the expected headliner.

Run-DMC was the headliner.