But he was a solid actor in the late '50s and '60s, and those gifts deserve some acknowledgment.
A solid actor often seen at New Jersey Rep, Mr. Pollard gives Alfred an apologetic stoop, a beleaguered cheeriness and a vapid laugh.
Pearce, always a solid actor, is stuck playing a guy who seems implausibly preoccupied.
The solid actor Jeremy Shamos plays the college buddy of Hecht's son.
He's always been known as a solid actor, an Image Award and Independent Spirit Award nominee, and one of the stars of the classic television series Law and Order: Criminal Intent, but rarely has been given the opportunity to really shine.
The role of the Time Lord has graduated from solid character actors – including the Bakers, Tom and Colin, and Sylvester McCoy – to attracting the sort of performers who play Hamlet on stage, such as Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant.
Instead there's a lot of shooting the breeze, which can get pretty weird and very funny, particularly when the conversations taking place are between two solid comedy actors like Brammall and Darren Gilshenan, who play the cops.
WRP acolytes such as Vanessa and Corin Redgrave were often around, and the cream of top 70s and 80s Beeb lefties were family friends: legendary producer Kenith Trodd, Ken Loach, producer Tony Garnett, plus "very solid Shakespearean actors", miners, Palestinian activists, trades union bigwigs and shop stewards.
Set in New York and San Francisco, Blue Jasmine is bicoastal, beautifully filmed, and features a cast of solid character actors ranging from Bay area veteran Joy Carlin to comedians Louis C.K. and Andrew Dice Clay.
