Possible Clues:

• Assumed identity with no spare material
• A minor figure's agent raised his image?
• One who is diplomatically acceptable
• No spare change? That's in character
• Son in Evita, a character on the stage?
• No pears (anag.)
• Classic Bergman film
• One's outward character
• Public image not entirely proper, so nasty
• Through your boy, a character