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person_profile-Lee Strasberg

Lee Strasberg Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Lee Strasberg

Date of Birth:

Sep 17, 1901

Country of birth:

Austria-Hungary

Died:

Feb 17, 1982

Biography of

Lee Strasberg

    ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

    Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American actor, director and acting teacher.  He cofounded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective".  In 1951, he became director of the non-profit Actors Studio, in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school".  In 1969, Strasberg founded the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City and in Hollywood to teach the work he pioneered. He is considered the "father of method acting in America," according to author Mel Gussow, and from the 1920s until his death in 1982 "he revolutionized the art of acting by having a profound influence on performance in American theater and movies".  From his base in New York, he trained several generations of theatre and film's most illustrious talents, including Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.  Former student Elia Kazan directed James Dean in East of Eden (1955), for which Kazan and Dean were nominated for Academy Awards. As a student, Dean wrote that Actors Studio was "the greatest school of the theater [and] the best thing that can happen to an actor".  Playwright Tennessee Williams, writer of A Streetcar Named Desire, said of Strasberg's actors, "They act from the inside out. They communicate emotions they really feel. They give you a sense of life." Directors like Sidney Lumet, a former student, have intentionally used actors skilled in Strasberg's "Method".  Kazan, in his autobiography, wrote, "He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... [H]e was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them 'permanent.'"  :61 Today, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, and Harvey Keitel lead this nonprofit studio dedicated to the development of actors, playwrights, and directors.

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Filmography of

Lee Strasberg

Found 14 Movies in total

... 1997

Night of 100 Stars

Self ( Actor )

... 1982

Skokie

Morton Weisman ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1981

Going in Style

Willie ( Actor )

... 1979

Boardwalk

David Rosen ( Actor )

... 1979

...And Justice for All

Grandpa Sam ( Actor )

... 1979

The Last Tenant

Frank ( Actor )

... 1978

The Cassandra Crossing

Herman Kaplan ( Actor )

... 1976

The Godfather Part II

Hyman Roth ( Actor )

... 1974

Jane

Self ( Actor )

... 1962

The Gun Runners

Rhett ( Actor )

... 1958

China Venture

Patterson ( Actor )

... 1953

Parnell

Pat ( Actor )

... 1937