Sentence examples for playing authority from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Rather, it was on account of his track record in playing authority figures (being cast as the president of the United States in both Deep Impact and The Sum of All Fears, for instance), together with his gift for conveying wisdom and sense of comic timing, that Freeman was considered, from very early in the movie's development, an ideal actor to take on the role.

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

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

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

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

For a short spell, I did ponder playing the authority card.

He has a beautiful sound on good nights, and he had it on Thursday, playing with authority: slowly and darkly, in short, shrewd figures.