Sentences with phrase «straight dramatic role»
It's great to see Jason Bateman get to be darker and meaner than ever before in what's basically a straight dramatic role.
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A more unexpected choice was Forte, of «Saturday Night Live» fame, for the straight dramatic role of the son, David Grant.
American actor Franklin Pangborn spent most of his theatrical days playing straight dramatic roles, but Hollywood saw things differently.
Not exact matches
Occasionally, Pangborn longed for more dramatic roles, so to satisfy himself artistically he'd play non-comic parts for Edward Everett Horton's Los Angeles - based Majestic Theatre; Pangborn's appearance in Preston Sturges» Hail the Conquering Hero (1942) likewise permitted him a few straight, serious moments.
Honeycutt isn't so diplomatic, offering straight out that Ferrell «is not quite up to his first dramatic role» and that the performance is «too one - note... Ferrell isn't able to track the ups - and - downs in the story's dramatic beats.
Taking a role as a fairly straight - laced, if imposing stepdad, was a departure for the firebrand comedian back in 1993, but he would eventually move into far more dramatic roles on «Rescue Me» and more.
There are a lot of Cushing fans who have never seen him in a straight dramatic [non-horror] role.
The former is particularly memorable for featuring comic actors Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson in dramatic roles played dead straight.