He gives us a bit of Frank Langella in his dark brooding hero.

The brooding hero with wealth and position, and a tragic secret.

He became a major star as the brooding hero of the revenge drama Qeysar (1969).

Josh went from a cad to a brooding young hero.

And when this brooding hero actually manages to drag himself out to a local restaurant - wouldn't you know - somebody firebombs the place.

Action movies are so much more fun when you have a haunted, brooding hero.

The reluctant, brooding hero, playfully named Quirke, makes a career of performing autopsies.

"I emerged with the theme of my life's work - betrayal," the brooding hero recalls of this affair.

And he searches for his missing past without turning into the brooding hero.

Unlike psychiatrists, readers often get impatient with a brooding, obsessive hero.