Sentence examples for playing a director from inspiring English sources

It seems fitting that Gosling's return to acting, when it happens, will be playing a director.

This an actor of Mr. Murray's formidable vocal power must do when he is playing a director in a tacky little theatre?

Fans of "Day for Night" (1973) will remember the brisk, cheery "Coupez!" with which François Truffaut — the director of the work but also an actor playing a director — interrupted the flow of the action.

And so he returns to a bar, a woman and situations that are always the same and yet always different — snow falls during one kiss but not another — playing a director whose life resembles a movie he keeps remaking.

For that matter, the movie opens with an actor addressing the viewer, identifying himself as an actor playing a director who has come to Koker to choose an actress for a film.

The 1994 film "Through the Olive Trees" starts with a man addressing the camera and introducing himself as an actor playing a director; in the next shot, he's seen wandering amid a group of young women who are seeking roles in the film.

Keith Reddin, the noted playwright and actor, plays a director in all three parts.

Orson Welles plays a director who is filming the Passion on a hillside near Rome.

And Jean-Pierre plays a director who desperately misses his double — François.

Of course, the one film in which Bogart and Gardner were together was Joseph Mankiewicz's "The Barefoot Contessa" — in which he played a director and she an actress.

In "One Leg Too Few", Pete played a director for whom Dud's hopping, mono-legged Mr Spiggott auditioned for the part of Tarzan.