What is "nonspeaking"

Usage examples of "nonspeaking".

With his acting skills, it was bad enough accepting a nonspeaking role to begin with.

Moral Qualities, in mass, that have been distributed, a single distinguishing characteristic at a time, among the nonspeaking animal world -- courage, cowardice, ferocity, gentleness, fairness, justice, cunning, treachery, magnanimity, cruelty, malice, malignity, lust, mercy, pity, purity, selfishness, sweetness, honor, love, hate, baseness, nobility, loyalty, falsity, veracity, untruthfulness -- each human being shall have all of these in him, and they will constitute his nature.

Or, better yet, a nonspeaking role where all he had to do was drape himself picturesquely across a saddle.

Myron Grunton in a nonspeaking role, a blurry extra like the rest of them.