Sentence examples for silent actor from inspiring English sources

In an inventive stroke Krishna is portrayed by an agile, compelling and mostly silent actor, John Kelly.

Basil Rathbone is probably the best-known Holmes, if not the most prolific – that honour goes to silent actor Eille Norwood.

I've always thought of Pitt as a great silent actor whose line readings often come off as well-learned; in "Moneyball" he seems to speak for himself.

I've often greatly admired his performances but have found him a better silent actor than a speaker; here, though, the dialogue seems to emerge from within — it's a performance of rare spontaneity.

The Fates, represented by a chorus (women of the Westminster Choir), singing wordlessly at first, draw Proserpina inexorably into their midst, and the director here, Ken Rus Schmoll, has added a silent actor (Jason Bruffy) as a glowering and ultimately grasping Pluto.

A superb, dangerously over-worked, standing self-portrait, Painter Working, Reflection 1993 portrays the ageing artist wearing only unlaced boots, holding a palette and knife (he was left-handed), addressing the viewer like a silent actor; invariably paint applied imaginatively to the planes of walls and floor reads as though a leitmotif for the prevailing mood.

The great silent actors did so much more.

She invited friends — retired silent actors and actresses — to live there, in a five-star apartment house".

Performing behind a gauze screen to create the illusion of cinema, the silent actors put together a daily comic drama.

She invited friends—retired silent actors and actresses to live there, in a five-star apartment house".

A film historian, examining the careers of silent actors like Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino, argues that the stars were more versatile that is usually thought.