The play afforded O'Neill a second look at his brother, depicted in "Long Day's Journey" as a 33-year-old, cynical, second-rate actor, alcoholic but still functional.

As the editor of a nonexistent Los Angeles magazine, he conducts bogus interviews with a slew of second-rate actors, musicians and comedians.

She once referred to Ronald Reagan as "a second-rate actor and a second-rate President."

It was Vasya I married, not some second-rate actor.

He gives his work to a second-rate illiterate actor, who adopts it as his own.

She felt like a second-rate actor running lines backstage.

It is respectable, at all events, and I'd rather be a second-rate doctor than a second-rate actor.

He is Alec Loding, a second-rate actor.

But much of the work is tedious and could be done as well by any second-rate actor.

He is a second-rate actor in a traveling Shakespearean company.