He said they were making a protest against what they saw as a climate that too readily condemned the police while casting criminals in sympathetic roles.

This sympathetic, welfare-orientated role was illustrated well when the fieldworker accompanied two neighbourhood men to a local children's home.

A wonderful actress in sympathetic comic roles, she has, in the Marquise, a chance to hit new notes.

From 1953-1956 he played Jake Goldberg in The Goldbergs, one of his few sympathetic roles.

One of his most sympathetic roles was as the belatedly attentive father in Captains Courageous (1937).

He also had sympathetic roles in the 1990 horror thriller Jacob's Ladder and the 1991 comedy-drama 29th Street.

In the drama Georgia, he played Mare Winningham's husband, one of his most sympathetic roles.

Might as well continue the sympathetic role.

She has done vampish-comedy and sympathetic roles.

She acts the sympathetic, gutsy role with spirit and heart", wrote Variety.