on-screen

on-screen
/on"skreen", awn"-/, adj.
1. occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life: a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.
2. displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television: an on-screen course in economics.
adv.
3. in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life: On-screen he's a villain.
[1950-55]

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