So it goes as well with Mr. McGowan, a burly young actor who was a good incidental clown in the James Lapine "Winter's Tale" at the Public Theater two seasons ago.

ON a dreary weekday afternoon this winter, the burly, gregarious actor Paul Sorvino sat in a darkened hotel meeting room here, working on the next act in his long-running career in show business.

The burly, bearded actor was known early in his career as a leading television villain.

Yet there was another, more subtle, reason for casting the burly Irish actor as the mobster.

Gloucester has a rather inactive role in this production; Mr. Versnel, a burly actor, purposely makes him into something of a potato sack, weary of life, a dead weight awaiting disposition.

Stanley J. "Tiny" Sandford (February 26, 1894-October 29, 1961) was a tall, burly actor who is best remembered for his roles in Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin films.

"He's a person who really wants to be good and saintly," said Levi Lee, the burly, silver-maned actor who plays the Reverend Ed.

Last year, the burly actor spent his energies demonstrating against United States military aid to El Salvador.

But on a recent picture-perfect afternoon, the burly comic actor found himself in a deli in this squeaky-clean Los Angeles suburb, near the rented house he shares with his wife and young son.

The burly, red-faced British actor David Calder is brilliant as cynical, self-deluding Charles, whose sexual transactions with Gina provide the film with its moments of greatest cruelty and rawest emotion.