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
Bellaver
surface form: Harry Bellaver
John
surface form: John McGiver
John Diehl
Stanley Townsend
Don McManus
Jackie Gayle
Edward Arthur Sparkman
Sparkman
surface form: Ned Sparks
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Alec Craig
Mary Forbes
James Hayter
Brandon Hurst
Kenneth Tobey
Paul Chubb
Nicholas Pryor
Frank Fenton
Ned Dennehy
William Edmunds
Wensley Pithey
David Burns
John Randolph
Edward Andrews
Jason Watkins
Winifred Natzka
surface form: Charles Coburn
American character actor
Rosing
surface form: Bodil Rosing
character actress
David Landau
John Benfield
Brijendra Kala
J. M. Kerrigan
Peter Kwong
Anthony Bate
Guy Doleman
Richard Carter
Donald MacBride
Reta Shaw character actress
Mark Boone Junior
George Morfogen
Julio Oscar Mechoso
William Forsythe
Mark Margolis
Gus Schilling
Walter Brennan
Shirl Bernheim
Clive Morgan
Stanley Fields
Evelyn Varden
Lew Harvey
Peter Woodthorpe
Bud Jamison