Lee Strasberg, founder of the Actors Studio, New York
Nov. 11, 1976 - 75th Birthday of Lee Strasberg: On November 17th 1976, Lee Strasberg will be 75 years old. The American who was born in Poland, is known as a film director and actor but mainly as the founder (together with Elia Kazan) and leader of the world famous Actors Studio in New York from which many famous stars have come. Marlon Brando, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, G Page, Paul Newman, J Woodward,s Winters, Rod Steiger, Dustin Hofmann and Jane Fonda are only some of them. Lee Strasberg directed the Sidney Kingsley film Men in White, which won the Pulitzer award and further directed amongst others The Fifth Column, Clash by Night and The Country Girl'. 1969 he founded the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York and Los Angeles, in order to make his work, previously confined to the Actors Studio'. available to a wider public
