Sentence examples similar to playing grandfather from inspiring English sources

Hackman declared this week that he doesn't want to play grandfathers or doddering old men, and says he won't miss movie-making.

These days, Stamp mostly plays grandfathers and pensioners (scoring a rare lead role recently, opposite Gemma Arterton and Vanessa Redgrave, in the surprisingly moving pensioner-choir yarn Song for Marion, for which Stamp drew on memories of his emotionally closed-off stoker dad Tom), and seems happy with his lot.

Margaret Hoover recently told him, when he described his hope of playing his grandfather onstage, "You should totally do that".

I was filming a Disney remake of the classic children's story Heidi, in which he was playing her grandfather and I her doctor.

Occasionally Falk took on more demanding roles, playing a grandfather over three decades in the sentimental Roommates (1995), and appeared in many television movies, including A Storm in Summer (2000), directed by the veteran Robert Wise.

Afterwards, Carney thanked Bradley "for playing my grandfather so wonderfully".

Playing multiple grandfathers, he works his way through two dinners at each performance.

To give credit where credit is due, Ms. Twyford also plays Orestes' grandfather Tyndareus.

Michael Caine plays the grandfather, and the efforts at repartee between his character and Mr. Johnson's occasionally amuse.

3 Michael Caine plays the grandfather of The Rock's stepson.

While she and Harriet played, the grandfather, with other reading material banned, sat in a corner rocking chair poring over the children's books.