2002, Fay Vincent, The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 70:
He was not the pompous university president from central casting, always pontificating; he was more like a charming professor who walked around his campus wearing the navy blue cap of his beloved Boston Red Sox and who just happened to be university president.
2009, John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure[1], Crown Publishers, →ISBN:
Luckily for Giacomo, he had Marzia, an Italian grandmother straight from central casting.
2014 April 1, Roger Cohen, “The case for Scotland”, in International New York Times, page 9:
The fact that David Cameron, the conservative prime minister, is a plummy-voiced, Eton-educated, upper-class Brit from central casting has played into [Alex] Salmond's hands.
