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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, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Julie Harris, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and director Elia Kazan.