Sentence examples for play authority from inspiring English sources

Onscreen, he tended to play authority figures who, whatever their flaws, were in control.

The rawness with which his torso lurches off balance here and there catches the newness at the heart of this story, in which art is happening for the first time; and the rhythmic immediacy with which he dances to music has elements of play, authority and explosiveness.

Gandolfini often played authority figures: not cops so much as top-ranking army officers.

Saleh has created videos in the past that involved staged scenes on airplanes and with actors playing authority figures.

He is tall, he has a deep, gravelly voice and he has played authority figures (including three presidents) in a variety of movies.

The character actor Richard Dysart crowned a long stage and screen career playing authority figures by starring in LA Law as Leland McKenzie, senior partner of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney & Kuzak.

For the first 30 years of his career, he built his reputation playing authority figures such as the captain of the ill-fated cruise ship in The Poseidon Adventure.

A character actor with a long career on stage and screen, Kenneth Gilbert spent much of his working life jumping from one role to another, often playing authority figures, but he had a longer run as self-made business executive Oliver Banks in Crossroads.

Jane Lynch knows a thing or two about playing authority figures.

Cast as David Caulder was Donald Houston, an experienced character actor, who had appeared in 633 Squadron, The Longest Day and The Sea Wolves, and was known for playing authority figures.

Morell had a reputation for playing authority figures, such as Colonel Green in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and had previously worked with Kneale and Cartier when he appeared as O'Brien in their BBC television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954).