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character actor

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Noun1.character actorcharacter actor - an actor who specializes in playing supporting roles
actor, histrion, thespian, role player, player - a theatrical performer


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With more than 100 acting credits to his name, Frank Campanella was the consummate character actor, portraying bad guys and cops, judges and sea captains.
Back in 1975, when the Star Wars epic was little more than a gleam in Lucas's eye, the director offered the role of Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi to Guinness, a sixty-one-year-old stage and film veteran who had occasionally been mentioned in the same breath as Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, but had more often been classed, in critic Kenneth Tynan's words, as "the best living English character actor.
Best of all, veteran character actor Raymond Ma (Old School, Starsky & Hutch) brings real gravity to the role of Ethan's dad.
 
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