title role

He intended at first to use it as a movie to star his father in the title role.

So intrigued, in fact, that he even auditioned to play the title role.

Yet you root for the wonderful Oscar Isaac in the title role.

The Bachelor, she points out, has never had a person of color in the title role—a fact they were sued over in 2012.

It stars Hugh Dancy as damaged-goods special agent Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen in the title role of Hannibal Lecter.

Originally played by Mary Mannering, who created the title role.

Two dreams beset him in his momentary slumber—one of a play in which the title-role of the general manager was always unfilled.

But when Mr. Bacon, who also plays the title role, took it to the New York producers they refused it a try-out.

How he would have liked to hear it, with Lenormand in the title role.

About twenty years later Mayo dramatized "Pudd'nhead Wilson" and played the title role delightfully.