character actor

C2747
concept

A character actor is a performer who specializes in playing distinctive, often supporting roles with strong, memorable personalities rather than conventional leading parts.

All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
character actor canonical 983
character actress 91
Supporting character 7

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: character actor
Generated description
A character actor is a performer who specializes in playing distinctive, often supporting roles with strong, memorable personalities rather than conventional leading parts.

Instances (1,094)

Instance Via concept surface
Robert Coote
Bruce Payne
Tonita Castro character actress
Joseph Ruskin
Don Beddoe
Bruce McGill
Atwill
surface form: Lionel Atwill
Ernest Torrence Thomson
William Schallert
Leon Errol
Ronnie Stevens
Irving Bacon
Dave King
Bill Erwin
Geoffrey Keen
Mrs. Fairfax Supporting character
Charlie Dell
William Sanderson
J.T. Walsh
Perry Benson
Esther Dale character actress
Rod Steiger (as a combined Jud/Andrew-type authority figure in some adaptations)
surface form: Rod Steiger
Barnard Hughes
Richard Riehle
Kitty McHugh character actress
Erskine Sanford
Elisabeth Fraser character actress
Murray Alper
Paul Gleason
Burt Young
Howard Wendell
Chris Alcaide
Rosalind Ivan character actress
Dan Seymour
John
surface form: John Warden Lebzelter Jr.
Eddie Boland
Frank Lanning
Bert Woodruff
Anna Townsend
Dick Sutherland
Spencer Charters
George Barbier
Alan Dinehart
Grant Mitchell
Joseph J. Spagnuolo
William Gillespie
Joseph Spinnell
surface form: Joe Spinell
Abraham Tilevitz
Leo Willis
Paul Weigel