character actor
Britishnoun
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The youngest son of prolific character actor John Carradine, Robert Carradine was born on March 24, 1954, in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
She attended Manhattan’s Professional Performing Arts School and started honing her skills as a character actor from an early age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Paying tribute, entertainment writer Jay Bobbin said he was "heartbroken to learn about the passing of superb character actor".
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Back in the late 1950s and 1960s, my dad was a popular character actor who appeared on dozens of TV shows, including “Bonanza,” “I Dream of Jeannie” and “The Twilight Zone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Promptly there came to Herr Timothy a capable twentieth-century young character actor by the name of Highsmith, who besought engagement as "Sol Haytosser," the comic and chief male character part in "Paresis by Gaslight."
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
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