Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

Her acting began with the Birmingham Repertory Company and she soon became the toast of the West End.

In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.

Bruce Campbell began acting as a teenager and soon began making short Super 8 movies with friends.

Chaplin quickly began work in another role, touring with his brother — who was also pursuing an acting career — in a comedy sketch called Repairs.

Love began a budding acting career in the late 1980s, landing roles in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately dissatisfied with it and returned to stripping, where she was recognized and photographed by customers at a bar in McMinnville, Oregon.

In 1996, Love began obtaining small acting parts again in Basquiat and Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), before landing the co-starring role of Larry Flynt's wife, Althea, in Miloš Forman's 1996 film The People vs. Larry Flynt, against Columbia Pictures ' reluctance due to her low profile and " troubled " past.

Starting in 1996, Guest began writing, directing and acting in his own series of heavily improvised films.

People began recognizing Flockhart's acting ability when William Esper ( Mason Gross ' theatre director and Flockhart's acting teacher ) made an exception to policy by allowing Flockhart to perform on the main stage.

At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.

She became his girlfriend shortly thereafter and began acting in his films.

With the introduction of the third actor ( an innovation attributed to Sophocles ), acting also began to be regarded as a skill to be rewarded with prizes, requiring a long apprenticeship in the chorus.

In 1956, Hackman began pursuing an acting career ; he joined the Pasadena Playhouse in California.

Connick began his acting career as a tail gunner in the World War II film, Memphis Belle, in 1990.

After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 1964 the acting mayor, Erik Jonsson, began working to change the community's image.

He also began acting at Baltimore's Holliday Street Theater, owned by John T. Ford, where the Booths had performed frequently.

He also developed an interest in acting as a career while in college but began thinking seriously about directing when he was in the Air Force.

Alexander began his acting career on the New York stage and is an accomplished singer and dancer.

His acting career began when he signed a seven year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and played the role of Tarzan in Tarzan the Ape Man ( 1932 ).

Brandauer began acting onstage in 1962.

He then began an amateur Off-Broadway acting career in New York City and served as an understudy in Broadway productions.

His professional career began when he was twenty ; ;

He returned to New York to work for The New Yorker, to edit a Western pulp, to `` duck the war in the OWI '', to write publicity for Paramount Pictures and commentary for a newsreel, then he began his career as critic for various magazines.

And the career of Konrad Adenauer, who upheld Germany's tradition of rock-like leaders which Bismarck began, draws near the end.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

He began his coaching career at Pittsburgh Central Catholic High School in 1949.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

However, he continued his slave trading career until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether and began studying Christian theology.

Later joining the Roman army, he began his career under the Gothic soldier Gainas.

* Clark Gable, actor, began his career at the Astoria Theatre in 1922.

In the 1960s Korner began a media career, working initially as a show business interviewer and then on ITV's Five O ' Clock Club, a children's TV show.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

In 1904, he travelled to Berlin to study philosophy, but set aside his studies soon and began a career as a professional chess player that same year.

He began his career fighting the revolutionary armies of France.

His youth was spent in Tuscany, at Vienna and in the Austrian Netherlands, where he began his career of military service in the war of the French Revolution.

The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Thackeray began his professional career as a cartoonist with the English language daily the The Free Press Journal in Mumbai, but left it in 1960 to form his own political weekly Marmik.

Walsh began his pro coaching career in 1966 as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

His caps record lasted until 1973 when Bobby Moore overtook him, and Charlton currently lies fourth in the all-time England appearances list behind Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton, whose own England career began in the first game after Charlton's had ended.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

He began his professional career in this way, as the group toured English music halls from 1899 to 1902.