Motivation usually makes the difference between " good " and " bad ," but motivation also includes the aspect of ignorance ; so a well-intended action from an ignorant mind can easily be " bad " in that it creates unpleasant results for the " actor.

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.

In many countries, most actors who regularly perform this duty are generally little-known outside of popular circles such as anime fandom, for example, or when their voice has become synonymous with the role or the actor or actress whose voice they usually dub.

* Leon Robinson ( born 1962 ), African-American actor usually credited just as Leon

Especially in daytime serials and those that are screened each weekday, there is some rotation of both storyline and actors so any given storyline or actor will appear in some but usually not all of a week's worth of episodes.

In the Making The Amazing documentary on the Spider-Man 2 DVD, both Tobey Maguire and Bruce Campbell jokingly describe Raimi's penchant for " abusing " actors: In order to get realistic closeups of a character getting hit by debris, Raimi usually stands just off-camera throwing items, swinging tree branches, etc., at the actor who is at the center of the shot.

Examples in English are the verbal nouns formed from verbs by the addition of-ing, nouns formed from verbs using other suffixes such as organization and discovery, agent nouns formed from verbs usually with the suffix-er or-or, as in actor and worker, feminine forms of nouns such as actress, lioness, nouns formed from adjectives such as happiness, and many other types.

As he declared in an interview, " in order to really create the character that one has in mind, it is necessary for the director to engage in a battle with his actor which usually ends with submitting to the actor's wish.

McClure is a washed-up actor, usually shown doing low-level work, such as hosting infomercials and educational films.

He is usually the link between the director and the rest of the company, and is responsible for the director ’ s visions being passed down to each actor and member of the running crew.

Studio co-workers noticed that even as a successful actor, MacMurray usually brought a brown bag lunch to work, often with a hard-boiled egg.

This would usually be a senior actor in a troupe who took the responsibility for choosing the repertoire of work, staging it and managing the company.

* Thierry Lhermitte ( born 24 November 1952 ), actor, co-writer ( usually with the band of the Splendid ), director, producer.

* Busy character actor John Fiedler ( 1925 – 2005 ) played usually bald and bespectacled officious types in hundreds of radio shows, TV episodes and movies starting in the 1940s.

They are also usually associated with witches, wizards and vampires ; the best-known stage version of Dracula, which first made actor Bela Lugosi prominent, featured him wearing it so that his exit through a trap door concealed on the stage could seem sudden.

In early films, robots were usually played by a human actor in a boxy metal suit, as in The Phantom Empire, although the female robot in Metropolis is an exception.

In S. W. A. T., for which the actor starred with Samuel L. Jackson in an ensemble cast that also included Michelle Rodriguez, Olivier Martinez and Jeremy Renner, Alan Morrison of Empire wrote, " Farrell can usually be relied upon to bring a spark to the bonfire.

The domestic situation varied, but Hancock usually portrayed a ' resting ' or hopeless down-at-heel actor and / or comedian ( though some episodes showed him having runs of success, while some episodes depict him pursuing professional careers as fantasies ), James was always on-the-fiddle in some way, Kerr gradually became dim and virtually unemployable ( although he had started out as a fast-talking American-style Australian ), and Hancock's ' secretary ', Miss Pugh, had such a loose job description that in one celebrated episode she had cooked the Sunday lunch.

The comedy actor Sidney James, as he was then billed, played Sid, a criminally-inclined confidant of Hancock, who usually succeeded in conning him each week ; Bill Kerr appeared as Hancock's Australian lodger, a character who became noticeably dim-witted in the later shows.

* Corpsing, the theatrical slang for an actor breaking character during a scene, usually by laughing

The show's format, which varied little over the decades, involved an actor reading from children's novels or folk tales, usually while seated in an armchair.

His younger brother Charlie O ' Connell, an alumnus of NYU who was most recently seen as The Bachelor, is also an actor who has appeared with Jerry in several productions, usually playing the brother of Jerry's character, such as in Sliders and Crossing Jordan.

He vows to fight and kill the rebel Hotspur, and orders Falstaff ( who is, after all, a knight ) to take charge of a group of " foot "-infantry, to which he cannot resist responding by saying he would have preferred horse-an obvious wordplay on " whores " usually missed by producer and actor alike-and proceed to the battle site at Shrewsbury.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

The original actor in the role of " Daniel Boone " was Ned Austin.

Children unseen on screen for a time might reappear portrayed by an actor several years older than the original.

" Roache was the only remaining member of the original cast until Dennis Tanner ( Philip Lowrie ) returned on 12 May 2011, and is currently the longest-serving actor in Coronation Street and in British and global soap overall.

Grierson's principles of documentary were that cinema's potential for observing life could be exploited in a new art form ; that the " original " actor and " original " scene are better guides than their fiction counterparts to interpreting the modern world ; and that materials " thus taken from the raw " can be more real than the acted article.

Dirk Benedict ( born March 1, 1945 ) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton " Faceman " Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

The procedure was sometimes practiced in musicals when the actor had an unsatisfactory singing voice, and remains in use to enable the screening of audio-visual material to a mass audience in countries where viewers do not speak the same language as the original performers.

Sometimes, a different actor is used from the original actor on set.

The track featured actor Patrick Allen, who recreated his narration from the Protect and Survive public information films for certain 12-inch mixes ( the original Protect and Survive soundtracks were sampled for the 7-inch mixes ).

* Sam Rockwell as Guy Fleegman, the actor who played " Crewman # 6 " in the original series and whose given name is as generic as his role.

Their elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and stage producer as Peter Cotes ; he was the original director of The Mousetrap.

The De Vere Code, a book by English actor Jonathan Bond, the author claims that Thomas Thorpe ´ s 30-word dedication to the original publication of Shakespeare's Sonnets contains six simple encryptions which conclusively establish de Vere as the author of the poems.

Direct causation is the only theory that addresses only causation, and does not take into account the culpability of the original actor.

Kimble in this version was portrayed by actor Timothy Daly, whose father James had guest starred in two segments (" Running Scared " and " The Evil Men Do ") of the original series.

Twenty times on the original Star Trek, McCoy declares someone or something deceased with the line, " He's dead ", " He's dead, Jim ", or something similar ; the phrase is considered a catchphrase of the character, although actor Kelley disliked repeating such lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death ; James Doohan as Montgomery Scott says " He's dead already " instead.

Philadelphia playwright and actor Anthony Lawton's original adaptation of The Great Divorce has been staged several times by Lantern Theater Company, including a weeklong run in February 2012.

Contrary to claims of homosexual terminology, Sir Donald Sinden, an actor who met two of the play's original cast ( Irene Vanbrugh, Gwendolen and Allan Aynesworth, Algernon ), and Lord Alfred Douglas, wrote to The Times to dispute suggestions that " Earnest " held any sexual connotations:

** Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer ( original voice of Goofy ) ( b. 1892 )