James Lipton

James Lipton ( born September 19, 1926 in Detroit ) is an American author and actor who achieved particularly through his television under the title Inside the Actors Studio sent ( in German Ungeschminkt ) interviews with filmmakers awareness.

Biography

Lipton was born in 1926 in Detroit. His mother was a teacher, his father, the journalist and writer Lawrence Lipton. Lipton was the only child of the couple who divorced in the late 1930s. Lipton's career began in the early 40 's, when he participated in radio productions and among other things, the nephew of the Lone Rangers lent his voice. After the Second World War Lipton lived for some years in Paris, where he hired himself, among other things as a translator for prostitutes.

Lipton returned to the United States and worked as an actor in various television series. In the 50s, 60s and 70s, he was involved as an author on the production of several soap operas, including at Springfield story. He worked further in 1967 on a Broadway musical, produced in 1977, Jimmy Carter's inauguration gala for television as well as several specials for birthday and with Bob Hope and Barry Manilow wrote in 1985 produced television movie Copacabana.

In the 90 years he was dean of the Actors Studio Drama School, a collaboration of universities Actors Studio and New School in New York City. As part of a course offered there Lipton began to interview actors, directors and other filmmakers. The recorded interview Inside the Actors Studio are broadcast in many countries, for example in Central Europe on 3sat under the title Unvarnished.

In 1954 he married actress Nina Foch, the marriage lasted until 1958. Kedakai Turner With his second wife he married in 1970.

Works (selection)

• An exaltation of larks, or, The venereal game. 3rd edition, Penguin Books, New York 1993, ISBN 0-14-017096-0 ( Nachdr d ed New York 1968).
• An Exaltation of Romance & Revelry. Random house, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-517-16472-3.
• Inside Inside. Dutton, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-525-95035-6 ( autobiography).
• Mirrors. New English Library, New York 1981, ISBN 0-450-04852-7.