- Robert Lewis
Robert Lewis was an American actor, director, drama teacher, author and founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. In addition to his accomplishments on Broadway and in Hollywood, Lewis' greatest and longest lasting contribution to American theater may be the role he played as one of the foremost acting and directing teachers of his day. - Carroll Baker
Carroll Baker (born Karolina Piekarski on May 28, 1931) is a Golden Globe Award winning and Oscar nominated American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, a movie sex symbol. Despite being cast in a wide range of roles during her heyday, Baker's beautiful features, blonde hair, and distinctive drawl made her particularly memorable in roles as a brash, flamboyant woman. - Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain (born 13 September 1931) is an American actress. Bain was born Millicent Fogel in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and moved to New York City where she was a dancer and high fashion model. Bain studied with Martha Graham, thus cementing her interest in dancing. After attending Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, she changed careers to acting. - Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 - February 13, 1996) was an American actor. Balsam was born in The Bronx in New York City to Albert Balsam and Lillian Weinstein. He studied dramatics at The New School in New York City and then served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In 1947, … - Jack Garfein
Jack Garfein, born July 2 1930 in Mukacevo, Carpathian Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia (now Mukacheve, Ukraine), is an acting teacher and former motion picture and theater director. Garfein survived imprisonment at Auschwitz and came to the US at the end of World War II. He joined the Actors Studio and married his fellow student, actress Carroll Baker. Garfein's film directorial debut, "The Strange One", is an ensemble piece set in a sadistic Southern military academy. - John Strasberg
John Strasberg (b. May 20, 1941 in New York) is the son of Lee and Paula Strasberg of the Actors Studio, and brother of Susan Strasberg. He has launched productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O'Neill, Odets and Aristophanes. He teaches the Organic Creative Process, which is said to go Stanislavsky. He has written a book, "Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting, and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity". - Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell (April 29, 1909 - September 12, 1994) was a Tony Award-winning American actor. Born Samuel Yewell Tompkins in Owensboro, Kentucky, Ewell began acting in Summer Stock in 1928 with Don Ameche, before moving to New York in 1931. He enrolled in the Actors Studio alongside classmates Montgomery Clift and Karl Malden. He made his Broadway debut in 1934 and his film debut in 1940, and for several years played comic supporting roles. - Tina Louise
Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American model, singer, and film and television actress, best known for her portrayal of Ginger Grant on television's "Gilligan's Island". - Michael V. Gazzo
Michael Vincente Gazzo (born April 5, 1923 in Hillside, New Jersey; died February 14) is a noted Broadway playwright who later in life became a prominent American film and television actor. He was a member of the Actors Studio, (and would later go on to train such actors as Henry Silva and Tony Sirico) and was author of the notable Broadway play on drug addiction "A Hatful of Rain", … - Michael J. Pollard
Michael J. Pollard (born May 30, 1939) is an American actor. Pollard was born Michael John Pollack, Jr. in Passaic, New Jersey to Sonia Dubanowich and Michael John Pollack. He attended the Montclair Academy and the Actors Studio. Pollard played the character C. W. Moss in the film "Bonnie and Clyde", … - Viveca Lindfors
Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 - October 25, 1995), better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish and later American stage and film actress. She was born in Uppsala, Sweden, and trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros. and began working in Hollywood films. - Karina Lombard
Karina Lombard (born on January 21, 1964 in Tahiti) is an actress. Lombard's mother is from Tahiti. Lombard is a naturalized U.S. citizen, but when she was one, her father, who is of Russian, Italian and Swiss descent, took her to Barcelona, Spain. She later attended a number of Swiss boarding schools where she became fluent in Spanish, English, Italian, French, and German. She came to New York when she was 18 and began modeling and taking acting classes. - Christopher Jones
William "Billy" Frank Jones, better known as Christopher Jones, is an American character actor, born August 18, 1941 in Jackson, Tennessee. With looks and a manner strikingly reminiscent of the late James Dean, Jones came from a similar background to Dean's, but his interest in the arts began with drawing, which earned him an Art school scholarship in his teens. Jones's enjoyment of movies interested him in acting, and he began to study filmed performances, … - Inger Stevens
Inger Stevens was a Golden Globe-winning, Emmy-nominated Swedish-American movie and TV actress. Stevens, born Inger Stensland, in Stockholm, Sweden, was an insecure and often ill child. Her parents divorced while living in Sweden and she moved with her father to the United States. She attended high school in Manhattan, Kansas. At 16 she left home and started to work in New York City as a showgirl in low-budget performances. - Lenka Peterson
Lenka Peterson (born October 16, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, as Betty Ann Isacson) is an actress of stage, film and television. She was nominated for a 1985 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in "Quilters". She guest starred in such early TV productions broadcast as "Hallmark Hall of Fame" (1952), "The Philco Television Playhouse" (1955), and "Actors Studio" (1949 and 50). - John Gilmore
John "Jonathan" Gilmore (born July 5, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American novelist and gonzo journalist. - James Tolkan
James Tolkan (born June 20, 1931) is an American character actor. Tolkan is known for his role in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" as Hill Valley High School principal Mr. Strickland. He reprised the role in the 1989 sequel "Back to the Future Part II" and, in 1990, he played the part of Mr. Strickland's grandfather in "Back to the Future Part III". Other well known films include WarGames and the 1986 box office hit "Top Gun". - Rosemary Murphy
Rosemary Murphy is a German-born American actress of stage, film, and television. She was born on January 13, 1925 (some sources cite 1927), in Munich, Germany to a U.S. diplomat and his wife, who left Germany at the beginning of World War II. She attended Manhattanville College and acting school at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio before beginning her career on stage. She made her stage debut in Germany, in a 1949 production of Peer Gynt. - Frank Silvera
Frank Silvera was an American actor and theatrical director. Jamaican-born, he attended Northeastern Law School before becoming an actor after studying his craft at the Actors Studio. As a light-skinned African American, Silvera escaped the professional ghetto many black actors found themselves in during the 1950s and 1960s. Because of his appearance, and possibly because of his surname (which connoted an Portuguese heritage), … - Alex Nicol
Alex Nicol (January 20, 1916 - July 29, 2001) was a film actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The red-haired actor appeared in many tough-guy cowboys in Westerns including "The Man from Laramie", in a memorable role as a bad guy that menaced Jimmy Stewart. - Bill McKinney
Bill McKinney (born September 12, 1931 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American character actor whose most famous role was Don Job, the mountain man who abused and then sodomized Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty) in the movie "Deliverance". He had an unsettled life as a child, moving twelve times. Once when his family moved from Tennessee to Georgia, he was beaten by a gang and thrown into a creek. At the age of 19, he joined the Navy during the Korean War. - O. L. Duke
Orville Lewis Duke (August 12 1953 - September 10 2004) was an American stage, television and film actor. He was a member of the renowned Actors Studio and was the interim Artistic Director of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) from 2002-2004. In keeping with the tradition of the NEC, Duke helped young Black actors hone their skills by sharing his work experiences and teaching classes using the method acting technique. Duke lost his life in a car crash in New York City, … - Steve Rogers
Steve Rogers a.k.a. Steve Lewis (born 1959) is an English actor and screenwriter. He was born in London. He studied acting at the American Theatre Arts under Don Eitner and Bette Ferber and the Actors Studio in Los Angeles. His first television appearance was in 1982 on Radio Phoenix playing the role of "record rep" Roger. His first movie role was playing Barry Sheene's racing mechanic in "Space Riders". - Arnold Schulman
Arnold Schulman (born August 11, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -) is an American screenwriter and producer. He attended the University of North Carolina, and was a stage actor, long associated with the American Theatre Wing and the Actors Studio. He was also a playwright for the stage and television, a songwriter and novelist. However, he is best known for his contributions as a screenwriter and producer. - Jack Betts
Jack Betts (born in Miami, Florida) is an American stage, movie, and television actor.<br /> He is sometimes credited as Hunt Powers. A graduate of the Actors Studio, he started his career as a leading man in spaghetti westerns, before taking a career in supporting roles in American films. - Arnold Weinstein
Arnold Weinstein (1927-2005) was an American playwright and librettist, best known for his collaborations with composer William Bolcom, including the operas McTeague, A View From the Bridge (with Arthur Miller) and A Wedding (with Robert Altman). Weinstein was born in 1927 in New York City, growing up in Harlem and the Bronx. He enlisted in the Navy during World War II and served on a destroyer. After the war, he attended Hunter College on the GI Bill, … - Jacqueline Pearce
Jacqueline Pearce (born 20 December 1943 in Byfleet, Surrey, England) is an actress, best known for her role as Servalan in the British science fiction television series "Blake's 7". Pearce trained at the British stage school RADA and at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio in Los Angeles. As well as appearing in the BBC children's programmes "Dark Season" and "Moondial", she has appeared in the "Doctor Who" serial "The Two Doctors" as Chessene, … - Cheryl Boyd Waddell
Cheryl Boyd Waddell (died April 27, 2002), was an American opera singer. An agile lyrical soprano, the singer established in Atlanta, Cheryl Boyd Waddell was dedicated to recitals throughout the United States. Her extensive credits in recitals, oratory, chamber music and musical theater were the result of a vocal training that began at the tender age of 16 under the direction of the lyrical-coloratura French singer, Alice Mock. - Pat Corley
Pat Corley was an American actor. He was perhaps best known for his role as bar owner Phil on the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" from 1988-1996, where he served sage advice along with drinks. He also had a recurring role as Chief Coroner Wally Nydorf on the television drama "Hill Street Blues" (1981-1987). Additionally, he had supporting roles in a number of films, including "Night Shift" (1982), "Against All Odds" (1984), and "Mr. - Jo Anderson
Jo Anderson was born on June 29, 1958 in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up in suburban Tenafly, New Jersey and was one of four children in her family. She has naturally red hair and blue eyes. She is 5'7 1/2" tall. Jo began to write poetry and prose at age fourteen. She attended Adelphi University on Long Island, NY. She is a woman of many talents. She studied dance for years, and is a writer and a poet, as well as being an actress. She began her acting and dancing career in Manhattan. - Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene) (13 February 1883 - 29 May 1922) was a renowned Russian director who was associated with the State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow in the early 20th century, and founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was one of Konstantin Stanislavski's most renowned students, and a mentor of Mikhail Chekhov. Vakhtangov was born to Armenian parents in Vladikavkaz. - Peter Weller
Peter Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor, director and lecturer. - Robert Maschio
Robert Maschio (born August 25, 1966) was born in New York, and grew up in Syosset, Long Island. He attended Columbia University in New York City, class of 1988. During his junior year he studied abroad, and in his senior year he began performing musical theatre, appearing in plays such as Pippin, Anything Goes, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. After college, Robert joined the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he studied acting under Sanford Meisner, … - Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman (born April 14, 1930 in San Francisco, California) is a retired American film and television actor. Born to Dean and Josephine Dillman, he graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English Literature. Following this he served with the U.S. Marines in Korea (1951-1953) before focusing on acting as a profession. Studying with the Actor's Studio, he spent several seasons apprenticing with the Sharon, … - Jeane Manson
Jeane Manson, born Jean Manson, (born October 1, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American model, singer and actress. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1974 issue. (The pictorial opens with her nude in the ocean while lying in the sand.) Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. Jean's father was a writer; her mother was a signer. She attended The American School in Mexico, where she spent much of her childhod, … - Sarah Biasini
Sarah Magdalena Biasini (born July 21, 1977 near Saint-Tropez) is a French actress, the daughter of Romy Schneider and Daniel Biasini. She studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris and theater at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles and the Actor's Studio in New York. Biasini made her film debut in 2004 starring in the Emmy-nominated French mini-series, "Julie, Chevalier de Maupin", … - Susan Anspach
Susan Anspach (b. November 23 1942) is an American stage and motion-picture actress. She was raised in Queens, New York; She graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City in 1960. Paul Simon was a neighbor. She is a critically acclaimed actress who starred off-Broadway in "A View from the Bridge" with Robert Duvall, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. She went on to star in several Broadway and off-Broadway shows, … - Gene Frankel
Gene Frankel (c. 1920 - April 20, 2005) was a United States theater director and acting teacher who was notable for directing the off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's play "The Blacks" which is regarded as a seminal production in African-American theatre. Born Eugene Frankel in New York in 1919 or 1920 he spent his life in the city. During WWII he served in the military but rarely discussed this later in life. - Steven Hill
Steven Hill is an American film and television actor who was a founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio. He is best known as Adam Schiff in the NBC TV drama series "Law & Order", a part that he played for ten seasons (1990–2000). At the time of his departure, he was the longest-serving cast member. After a four-year hitch with the Naval Reserve, Hill made his first New York stage appearance in Ben Hecht's "A Flag is Born" (1946), … - Meghan Andrews
Meghan Andrews (born September 2 1979) is an actress and singer from New York City. She has been a studio singer and actress ever since the age of nine. Andrews is most notable for playing the role of Mallory Pike from "The Baby-Sitters Club" television series. She is an alternative folk/pop guitarist and singer-songwriter. She starred in the off-Broadway show "The Trip to Bountiful" and released her debut album "Center of Gravity".
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