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 |
| American character actor | 5 |
| supporting film role | 5 |
| method actor | 2 |
| actor character | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Donald Meek | — |
|
Laura Mae Bullivant
surface form:
Dwight Frye
|
American character actor |
| Arthur Kennedy | — |
| Charles Bickford | — |
| Harry Dean Stanton | — |
| Tor Johnson | — |
|
Ritter
surface form:
Thelma Ritter
|
character actress |
|
Oates
surface form:
Warren Oates
|
— |
| Edmund Breon | — |
| Charles Durning | — |
| Josef Swickard | — |
| Jack Mullaney | — |
| Allan Garcia | — |
| Hank Mann | — |
| Marjorie Main | character actress |
| Gailard Sartain | — |
| Ward Bond | — |
| Billy Gilbert | — |
| Maurice Moscovitch | — |
| Jeffrey Jones | — |
| Mary Carr | — |
| Eduardo Ciannelli | — |
| Addison Richards | — |
| Bill Camp | — |
| Liam Sullivan | — |
|
Marljorie Main
surface form:
Marjorie Main
|
character actress |
| Ron Cook | — |
| Henry Hull | — |
| Leo Rossi | — |
| Graham Jarvis | — |
| Peter Boyle | — |
| Martin Balsam | — |
| Noble Johnson | — |
| Henry O'Neill | — |
| Victor Jory | — |
| Lionel Atwill | — |
| Max Perlich | — |
| Frank McHugh | — |
| Dwight Fry | — |
| Ernest Torrence | — |
| Mickey Jones | — |
| Murray Kinnell | — |
| Jack Warden | — |
| Joe Spinell | — |
| Leo Gordon | — |
| Alan Tilvern | — |
| Henry Travers | — |
| Norman Wooland | — |
| Charles McGraw | — |
| Liz Smith | character actress |