David Andrew Seaman, MBE (born 19 September 1963) is a retired England international football goalkeeper who played for Arsenal, Queens Park Rangers and Birmingham City, among others, during a career lasting from 1981 to 2004.
 Seaman was awarded the MBE in 1997 for services to Football.
 Seaman retired seven years later following a recurring shoulder injury.
David Paul Fry (born 5 January 1960 in Bournemouth) is an English former professional football goalkeeper.
 He began his career at Weymouth as an amateur and in January 1977 signed for Crystal Palace.
 Fry was initially understudy to firstly, John Burridge and then Paul Barron but in the second half of the 1982–83 season, became first choice 'keeper after Barron left the club.
 In July 1983, however, he was transferred to Gillingham and later went on to play for Torquay United.
John Brooks born 11 November 1977 was a rugby union player for Harlequins in the Guinness Premiership.
 He also played for the England Saxons, including starting all the matches in the victorious Churchill Cup team of 2007, beating the New Zealand Maori in the final.
 One of his career highlights was playing understudy to Brendan O'Reilly in the Loughborough University League team, a player from whom he learnt a great deal.
The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
 It opened on October 15, 1942 at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18, 1942.
 It was produced by Michael Myerberg and directed by Elia Kazan.
 The play is a three-part allegory about the life of mankind, centering on the Antrobus family of the fictional town of Excelsior, New Jersey.
 The original production starred Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, and Montgomery Clift.
 Bankhead won a Variety Award for Best Actress and the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Actress of the Year for her role as Sabina.
 When she left the production in March 1943, she was replaced by Miriam Hopkins.
 Hopkins was in turn replaced by Gladys George.
 For two performances, while George was ill, Lizabeth Scott, who had been Bankhead's understudy, was called in to play the role.
 Scott then played the role for the production's run in Boston.
 Originally billed in New York as "Elizabeth Scott", she dropped the "E" before taking the part in Boston, and it became her breakthrough role.
Fred, born in Cajuri, Minas Gerais started his career at Cruzeiro.
 He then left for another team inside the state, for Ipatinga.
 In 2005, he was loaned to another minor team Valeriodoce.
 He was the understudy of Rodrigo Posso in 2007 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B.
 However, he obtained the starting role in mid-season, made 21 appearances.
 The team promoted as the runner-up.
 Fred remained as the first choice in 2008 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, made 19 appearances.
 In mid-season Fernando took the starting role.
 Ipatinga relegated at the end of season.
 Fred shared the starting role with Marcelo Cruz in 2009 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, which Fred played 14 times.
Vera Farmiga is an American actress, director, and producer.
 She began her career on stage as an understudy in Ronald Harwood's play "Taking Sides" (1996) on Broadway.
 The following year, she starred in the Off-Broadway play "Second-Hand Smoke" (1997) by Mac Wellman.
 Farmiga made her film debut in Joseph Ruben's drama-thriller "Return to Paradise" (1998).
 She had supporting roles in Joan Chen's romantic drama "Autumn in New York" (2000), the crime drama "The Opportunists" (2000), and John Herzfeld's action thriller "15 Minutes" (2001).
 Farmiga's breakthrough role came in 2004, when she was cast in Debra Granik's drama "Down to the Bone".
 For her performance, she won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Acting and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
 She then starred in Jonathan Demme's political thriller "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004), and Wayne Kramer's crime thriller "Running Scared" (2006).
In theater, an understudy, referred to in opera as cover or covering, is a performer who learns the lines and blocking or choreography of a regular actor or actress in a play.
 Should the regular actor or actress be unable to appear on stage because of illness, emergencies or death, the understudy takes over the part.
 Usually when the understudy takes over, the theater manager announces the cast change prior to the start of the performance.
 Coined in 1874, the term "understudy" has more recently generally been applied only to performers who can back up a role, but still regularly perform in another role.
Monica Anne Esteva Wilson (born May 4, 1970), usually credited as Monique Wilson, is a Filipina theater and film actress and women's rights activist.
 She began her professional career at the age of nine.
 At 18 she was understudy for the lead role of Kim in the original London West End production of "Miss Saigon", later starring in the role.
Vincent Lee "Vince" Bartram (born 7 August 1968) is an English former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper.
 As a player, he notably played in the Premier League for Arsenal, where he was understudy to David Seaman throughout the majority of his time at Highbury.
 He also played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Blackpool, Cheltenham Town, West Bromwich Albion, Bournemouth, Huddersfield Town and Gillingham.
 He is of current the development goalkeeping coach at Premier League side Southampton F.C.
Ian Bruce Deans (born 25 November 1960) is a former New Zealand rugby union player.
 He played for Canterbury during the 1980s and played for two seasons for New Zealand.
 He was selected to be the understudy to half-back David Kirk in the All Black squad for the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 although he didn't play a match.
 His first selection came during an end of seasons tour of Japan.
 Deans also played cricket for Canterbury Country in the Hawke Cup.

Question: What role did the player that Vince Bartram was an understudy of play during his career?
Answer: goalkeeper