Sentence examples for leading actor of from inspiring English sources

James Quin, the leading actor of the generation that preceded Garrick, was likened to a great boat heaving from side to side with the ballast rolling under him.

During that time he made his reputation as a leading actor of great charm, vocal resource – with a fine singing voice – and versatility.

By the time cameras started to roll, Gosling had become the leading actor of his generation and – something far more pertinent to the role – he had begun to have a greater understanding of relationships.

By the early 1950s Mr. Scofield was established as the leading actor of his generation, the natural successor to the ruling triumvirate of Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson and Gielgud.

It was a hangover from the very earliest days of film production, when small crews pitched in together, with the leading actor of the film also doing the studio accounts or stitching costumes.

According to an entry dated March 13 , 1602 in the commonplace book of a law student named John Manningham, Shakespeare had a brief affair after he happened to overhear a female citizen at a performance of Richard III making an assignation with Richard Burbage, the leading actor of the acting company to which Shakespeare also belonged.

He had a similar part in Picnic two years later, which put him on the cover of Time magazine as the leading actor of his time, and then in 1957, in David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai he played another cynical reluctant hero almost identical to Sgt Sefton.

The Italian cinema's leading actor of the day, Marcello Mastroianni, gives a superb performance as Alfredo Martelli, an unscrupulous antiques dealer with a smart shop near the Spanish Steps, who one morning is picked up by some aggressive cops and accused of killing his wealthy sponsor and mistress (the beautiful Micheline Presle).