Sentence examples for supporting player for from inspiring English sources

Daniel Brühl has been brilliant as a supporting player for quite some time (he's the drunken Nazi oaf in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds).

In that capacity, he was a striking supporting player for 15 years or so - from his Amish farmer in Witness to the blouse-seller in Tony Goldwyn's A Walk on the Moon, where Viggo gave every hint of changing Diane Lane's life expectancy.

While star Chiwetel Ejiofor has been a reliable supporting player for many years now in films such as Serenity and Inside Man, he will likely rocket straight to leading man status after his stirring turn as Solomon Northup, a free man who is sold into slavery during the 1840s.

But he amiably goes along with things, and they assemble a gallery of hirsuite, laid-back, cigarette-smoking supporting players for their new drama of communal living.

Matthew Maher stands out among the supporting players for his complacently doltish Acaste, preening himself on his own stupidity like a cat licking its fur after lapping up a saucer of milk.

Nowhere are Rezzori's sympathies more in evidence than in the novel's ribald, byzantine cast of supporting players, for whom the author saves the bulk of his affection.

After the triumph of Sir Humphrey, Hawthorne became that apparently contradictory thing, a star supporting player- as, for instance, Clarence in Ian McKellen's modernised Richard III (1995).

He was promoted to supporting player, billed as Tony Curtis for the first time, in the 1950 western "Kansas Raiders," and became, he recalled, first prize in a Universal promotional contest, "Win a Weekend With Tony Curtis".