Entertainers

tragedian
an actor who specializes in tragic roles
 
Laszlo Lowestein
United States actor (born in Hungary) noted for playing sinister roles (1904-1964)
 
telepathist
a magician who seems to discern the thoughts of another person (usually by clever signals from an accomplice)
 
William Clark Gable
United States film actor (1901-1960)
 
gambist
a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba
 
Sir Alec Guinness
English stage and screen actor noted for versatility (1914-2000)
 
end man
a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor
 
Peter Seamus O'Toole
British actor (born in Ireland in 1932)
 
Dame Joan Sutherland
Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926)
 
Agnes George de Mille
United States dancer and choreographer who introduced formal dance to a wide audience (1905-1993)
 
Edmund Kean
English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833)
 
operatic star
singer of lead role in an opera
 
William John Clifton Haley Jr.
United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981)
 
Mae West
United States film actress (1892-1980)
 
baton twirler
someone who twirls a baton
 
songster
a person who sings
 
sitar player
a musician who plays the sitar
 
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933)
 
Paul Simon
United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942)
 
Rose Louise Hovick
United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
 
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