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Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982), born Israel Lee Strassberg in Budzanów, Austria-Hungary (now Budanov, Ukraine) to Ida and Baruch Meyer, was a Jewish-American actor, director, producer and acting teacher.

In 1931, he became one of the co-founders of the Group Theatre, a company which numbered such legends as Elia Kazan, John Garfield, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Franchot Tone, and Robert Lewis. In 1936, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1949, he began a lengthy career at the Actors Studio in New York City. Within two years, he was artistic director and the now-renowned institution's reputation flourished. Actors under his tutelage there included Geraldine Page, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Kim Stanley, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Eli Wallach, Eva Marie Saint, Robert DeNiro, Jill Clayburgh, Jack Nicholson, and Steve McQueen. In 1966, he took the Actors Studio west and founded a Los Angeles branch. In 1969, he began the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in the same city.

While rarely stepping in front of the camera himself (he appeared in only seven different films, or eight counting The Godfather Trilogy compilation), his most famous role was surely that of Hyman Roth in The Godfather: Part II. Playing an elderly Jewish organized crime figure retired to Miami and overlord of criminal enterprise in Cuba, he encounters the wrath of Michael Corleone – played by Strasberg's former student Al Pacino. For this performance, Strasberg received an Academy Award nomination. His legacy remains strong today, as he was one of the patriarchs of "method acting."

He was married to his second wife, the actress and drama coach Paula Strasberg from 1934 until her death from cancer in 1966, and they were the parents of the now-deceased actress Susan Strasberg, and John Strasberg. Lee Strasberg eventually remarried, this time to his third wife, the former Anna Mizrahi, a Sephardic Jew who was born in Venezuela, and the mother of his 2 youngest children. She remained his wife until his death on February 17, 1982 in New York from a heart attack at the age of 80. She had strained relationships with her adult stepchildren, Susan and John Strasberg.

Work on Broadway

Note: All works are plays and the original productions unless otherwise noted.

• Four Walls (1927) - Actor
• The Vegetable (1929) - Director
• Red Rust (1929) - Actor
• Green Grow the Lilacs (1931) - Actor
• The House of Connelly (1931) - Co-Director
• 1931 (1931) - Director
• Success Story (1932) - Director
• Men in White (1933) - Director
• Gentlewoman (1934) - Director
• Gold Eagle Guy (1934) - Director
• Paradise Lost (1935) - Produced by Group Theatre
• Case of Clyde Griffiths (1936) - Director, Produced by Group Theatre
• Johnny Johnson (1936) - Director, Produced by Group Theatre
• Many Mansions (1937) - Director
• Golden Boy (1937) - Produced by Group Theatre
• Roosty (1938) - Director
• Casey Jones (1938) - Produced by Group Theatre
• All the Living (1938) - Director
• Dance Night (1938) - Director
• Rocket to the Moon (1938) - Produced by Group Theatre
• The Gentle People (1939) - Produced by Group Theatre
• Awake and Sing! (1939), revival - Produced by Group Theatre
• Summer Night (1939) - Director
• Night Music (1940) - Produced by Group Theatre
• The Fifth Column (1940) - Director
• Clash by Night (1941) - Director
• A Kiss for Cinderella (1942), revival - Director
• R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1942), revival - Director
• Apology (1943) - Producer and Director
• South Pacific (1943, apparently no relation to South Pacific) - Director
• Skipper Next to God (1948) - Director
• The Big Knife (1949) - Director
• The Closing Door (1949) - Director
• The Country Girl (1950) - Co-Producer
• Peer Gynt (1951), (revival) - Director
• Strange Interlude (1963), (revival) - Produced by The Actors Studio - Tony Co-Nomination for Best Producer of a Play
• Marathon '33 (1963) - Production supervisor
• The Three Sisters (1964), (revival) - Director, Produced by The Actors Studio

External links

• Lee Strasberg official website
• The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute
• Lee Strasberg at the Internet Broadway Database
• John Strasberg Studios
• How Lee Strasberg Saved My Life by Michael Dare

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