As he aged Faversham continued to take on classic roles and contemporary parts.

He was among the first to use minority actors in major Shakespearean and other classic roles.

Yet he brings to this classic French role an idiomatic sense of style and language.

He often played classic roles in regional theatre.

Fishing for cod with huge diamond jigs in deep water is perhaps the handline's classic role.

As Third World capitalism develops, the working class is destined to play its classic revolutionary role.

Sellers's President Muffley was the first of his two classic political roles.

It is unusual for an actor to play the same classic role in two different productions, especially within such a short period of time.

"Most of the large classic roles for women are destroyers," she explained.

By contrast, the same critics held Richardson up as peerless in classic comic roles.