Supporting actor

Supporting Role is a concept from the theater culture and the film industry. In a movie or a play there in the Personage ( occupation ) in addition to or the few leading roles usually still several supporting roles.

Importance

The English name for Supporting Role is Supporting Act and describes the essential task, the support of the main roles that would otherwise have purpose and lackluster. Often supporting roles are considered the " more colorful " and interesting roles because they also have the responsibility to make the film more colorful and interesting, while the main characters often have to go straight through the film: Doctor Watson at Holmes Holmes as narrator, Papageno in The Magic Flute as Buffopart, Ron and Hermione for Harry Potter as a secondary main roles, as are also the respective antagonist ( opponent ) of the hero. To differentiate is the supporting role in their independence from the pure extras.

While the main characters on the posters and print media, as well as the opening credits of a movie usually appear clearly highlighted in color and shape, the so-called supporting actors are usually stated in the supporting roles only marginally and, correspondingly less conspicuous. Nevertheless, Best Supporting Actor will also award prizes in the film industry for the category.

There are actors who almost exclusively play supporting roles and played. For example, Peer Schmidt, Hubert von Meyerinck, Elisabeth Flickenschildt or Stanislav Ledinek have never received the lead role in a feature film and have been known and famous just by it. On the other hand, there are also famous actors that occur consciously in smaller supporting roles, either because they are connected to the director in friendship or they receive appropriate fees in order to give the necessary application to the public a so-called B-movie. The playwright Bertolt Brecht said, according to a statement of actor Martin Bramstedt: " The better the quality in filling the supporting role, the better the production. "