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Reference to famous black actor/singer.
Gentleman actor is British theatre slang for a bland but handsome actor or actress.
Person with remarkably high forhead, bald person ( from Adverts on tv whose actors were shown with have "high" foreheads.
Black actor who sells out to get laughs from white people.
The official march of the Royal Canadian Navy. It is also the official march of several Commonwealth navies including the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy. It was once the official march of the Royal Australian Navy, but has now been replaced by a new march. Originally written as an opera, it was composed by Dr. William Boyce. The words were written by the 18th-century English actor David Garrick. It was first performed on New Year's Eve, 1760.
A light hearted expression amongst friends. Meaning, I'm more deserving of this (thing) than you! Made famous in a television show by the respected Australian actor, Paul Hogan
Actor is slang for someone accomplished at playing a role, or bluffing.
Rude name for an actor.
In Star Wars Episode 1, the computer-generated character Jar Jar Binks was filled with stereotypical black behavior. The actor who did the voice was also Black.
Woman clothing worn by male actors playing female roles.
Gay (homosexual). He's a bit Ted. Ted Ray was an actor/comedian in the sixties. This association actually comes from a particularly bad movie "My Wife's Family" where he played a character called Jack Gay.
Stage name of American actor Lincoln Perry, type cast as a slow, uneducated & easily frightened Black man. Derogatory term also used to suggest the toady behavior of Black civil servants.
Show-off
Starvin'. I'm Lee Marvin... if you're really hungry you could say, "I'm Hank, and his brother Lee". Lee Marvin was an American actor. See other entry for starvin' (Hank Marvin). And no - they're not related.
A gay man who is responsible for keeping porno actors with stiff hardons during takes. The fluffer uses all his talents between shots to ensure the best erections for filming.
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An actor.
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A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.
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The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
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Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.
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The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.
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Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
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Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
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To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.
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A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
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The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
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A subordinate actor.
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An actor or player in tragedy.
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A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
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An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
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A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
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The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
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To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
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A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.
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A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.
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A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.
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