Sentence examples for stock actor from inspiring English sources

John Lane O'Connor, eminent stock actor gave Lloyd small parts in 8 of his productions, while newsboy.

Despite the rigid conventions of the stock actor, Wang also succeeded in creating a convincing character in the maid, Hongniang; the dialogue is also excellent.

"The two of them looked like stock actors from the background of a Mozart troupe where they needed some rustic peasants," Mr. Bergdoll said.

Sturges kept a company of stock actors, some of them relicts of the stage or of silent movies, who crop up like faithful hounds in one film after another.

The film was partially cast with stock actors that Corman had used in previous films.

Later that year, Booth played the part of an Indian, Uncas, in a play staged in Petersburg, Virginia, and then became a stock company actor at the Richmond Theatre in Virginia, where he became increasingly popular with audiences for his energetic performances.

Mr. Carey was one of the last surviving members of a group known informally in Hollywood as the John Ford stock company, actors cast by that director in many of his best-known films.

He was one of the last surviving members of "a group known informally in Hollywood as the John Ford stock company" — actors whom the director John Ford cast frequently in his films; he was not the last.

Ballen's book, originally published in 2001, shows a freak show and a fun house, stocked with actors willing to enact his vision of a society… Vince Aletti previews a photography exhibition that includes work by Maurice Tabard and Willi Ruge.

Ballen's book, originally published in 2001, shows a freak show and a fun house, stocked with actors willing to enact his vision of a society on the brink of a nervous breakdown.

Characters drop like tech stocks, and actors resolutely deliver the lines in tones stripped of everything except a need to get them out with as little emotion as possible.