actor-manager

American  

[ak-ter-man-uh-jer] / ˈæk tərˈmæn ə dʒər /

noun

1. a leading actor who produces and usually stars in their own productions.

   Sir Henry Irving was one of the first actor-managers.

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Etymology

Origin of actor-manager

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

His son, the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier, was Daphne's father.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2022

Eventually, according to Kelly Burdick Carter — Brandon’s wife — a management committee of six department managers, representing production, engagement and other units, replaced the actor-manager model as the company’s essential supervisors.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2021

The author, Bram Stoker, was the devoted and long-suffering business assistant to the Lyceum’s capricious actor-manager, Sir Henry Irving, who angrily refused to read the part of the saber-toothed count.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2020

Increasingly, the production begins to resemble a standoff between Sir Henry Irving, the Victorian-era actor-manager, and the auteur world of Peter Brook.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2016

He familiarly took his place by the side of the actor-manager, who gave him his middle finger on which shone a ring with a large cornelian.

From The Red Room by Strindberg, August