screen actor

collocation in English

meaningsofscreenandactor

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screen
noun[C]
uk
/skriːn/us
/skriːn/
a flat surface in a cinema, on a television, or as part of a computer, on which pictures or words ...
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actor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæk.tər/us
/ˈæk.tɚ/
someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a film, play, or television or ...
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(Definition ofscreenandactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He was also a prominent stage andscreenactor.
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As well as being ascreenactor, he also appears on the stage.
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He is a stage andscreenactor, director and writer, as well as a photographer and a musician.
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An accomplishedscreenactor, he has appeared in character roles in episodic television, movies of the week, international mini-series as well as in both major studio and independent feature films.
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He is primarily ascreenactor.
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Were these vandals on the screen actors?
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During cinema's formative years, silent screen actors were not named, because studio owners feared that fame might lead to demands for higher wages.
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Many people that have performed with the ensemble have gone on to become successful stage and screen actors.
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He was nominated for a screen actors guild award.
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One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played priests, cops, military figures, pilots, and reporters.
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He became one of the first screen actors to commit to working in the new field of television and continued to make occasional film appearances until the mid-1970s.
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The relatively unknown actors would be picked to guest star on the show, then they would have half-hour scenes of dialogue with established stage and screen actors.
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Fonda returned to both foreign and television productions, which provided career sustenance through a decade in which many aging screen actors suffered waning careers.
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