'Why does every Negro in a film have to play a servant?'

It was disconcerting to recognize that the man now playing a servant had been one of the acolytes earlier in the play.

Burrowing in his pullover for a cigarette, Pigoreau took one of the two chairs, crossing the room bent over like somebody playing a servant in bad Chekhov.

Elisabeth Lewis Corley, the actress playing a servant who is the beneficiary of the miracle, said: "J's sexuality is not the point of the play.

Hettiarchchi began his film career in 1982 playing a servant in Kadawunu Poronduwa.

His son, also William (1844-1920) played football for Scotland in the first of the England v Scotland representative matches (1870-1872) and was later a senior civil servant.

In 2001 he had one of his few serious screen roles, playing a servant in the blockbuster supernatural thriller film The Others, starring Nicole Kidman.

However, the scene in which he plays a servant who accompanies a western doctor to a meeting with Shingen was cut from the foreign release of the film.

Anthony Zerbe played a servant of the devil in the episode "The Devil and Jonathan Smith".

Generally it played an innkeeper or a servant.