Sentence examples for playing a newspaper from inspiring English sources

He starred in the 1957 "Count Max," playing a newspaper vendor who pretends to be a Roman count, and two years later in Mr. Monicelli's "Great War," by some considered one of the best Italian comedies.

Then in 2003, at the age of 53, he became highly bankable almost overnight when he won two Baftas, one for playing a newspaper editor in the TV drama State of Play, and another for his role as a washed-up but endearing rock star in the Richard Curtis romcom Love Actually.

Twice in the early 1950s he played a newspaper editor, in "The Captive City" (1952) and "It Happens Every Thursday" (1953).

In this show, which was inspired by a true story, Pine plays a newspaper reporter inspired by tabloid fantasy.

Paul Tyler Liberal Democrat, House of Lords In Citizen Kane, Orson Welles plays a newspaper tycoon who is running for public office.

Here Dabney Coleman plays a newspaper columnist whose young daughter is brought in to make his column hip again.

Ben Goodman, 69, from north London, was hired to play a newspaper vendor who hands a paper proclaiming the breaking "Royal scandal" to Mrs Simpson, played by Andrea Riseborough.

"It's like watching Jimmy Stewart play a newspaper editor in 'It's a Wonderful Life,' " Mr. Browne recalled telling a fellow editor at the meeting.

Chris Pine plays a newspaper reporter in the TNT miniseries "I Am the Night," which is inspired by the historical events surrounding L.A.'s infamous Black Dahlia murder.

The first is 28 Days, a comedy in which an improbably cast Sandra Bullock plays a newspaper columnist who crashes her car while drunk- and gets sent to rehab.

Mike Binder, who also writes the show, plays a newspaper columnist, married and with a small child, who finds himself badly afflicted with wandering-eye disease.