Sentence examples for speaking actor from inspiring English sources

And he used only one speaking actor, as both narrator and the hotheaded Gen. William Alexander, whose regiment of 400 doomed but stouthearted Marylanders held off 2,000 British soldiers for hours on Aug. 27, 1776, to buy George Washington's army time to escape and regroup.

He planned to become a speaking actor, but he studied under Etienne Decroux, a master of miming, who had taught the noted mime Jean-Louis Barrault.

Mr. Fisher has scanned the original backgrounds from an old print and, through some kind of green-screen magic, put living, speaking actors into them.

Set in a Victorian theatre, it has only two speaking actors, one of them shifting with the twist of a cap from one character to another.

Two speaking actors (Zachary Linnert and Caroline Burrow) inhabit the scenes as unobtrusive extras — at a back table in restaurant scenes, for instance — and speak the lines that the main actors are signing.

The entire company signs the performance in ASL (American Sign Language), including the speaking actors within the cast.

Six speaking actors flesh out the wartime characters, of whom the most striking are Paul Bäumer, Remarque's doomed protagonist, and Nurse Elisabeth, who is based on Ellen La Motte, the author of a brutal memoir of nursing on the Western Front.

Whit Stillman speaking with actor Freddy Asblom while shooting The Cosmopolitans in Nanterre, outside Paris.

Officials fear that Mr. Veerappan's demands could inflame old linguistic and cultural antagonisms between the Tamil-speaking minority and the Kannada-speaking majority in Karnataka, for whom the Kannada-speaking actor, Mr. Rajkumar, is a mythic figure.

Every English-speaking actor over six foot was being seen for the part.

Brook's Hamlet (1955), which became known as the Moscow Hamlet because of its run in the USSR where Scofield was the first English-speaking actor to play the role since 1917, was truly a Hamlet for a generation; although Scofield had already played the role to considerable acclaim in 1948 for director Michael Benthall at Stratford.