Definition of "play-actor" [play-actor]

• A stage-player; an actor. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He knows they believe he is a fake, a charlatan, an imposter, an abandoning hooligan and play-actor posing as a compassionate liberal of the genus Academicus."
• "Has it never occured to any of you that the point about Shakeseare's Richard is that he is a play-actor."
• "“Look here,” said the fierce republican, with humorous fierceness, “you can be a great writer, but a little play-actor you shall never be,” and he took up his hat and went out."