Alvin Epstein

Alvin Epstein

Alvin Epstein (May 14, 1925 – December 10, 2018) was an American actor and director. He was a founding member of both the American Repertory Theater and Yale Repertory Theatre. He was particularly admired for his performances in the plays of Samuel Beckett. He also served as Artistic Director at the Guthrie Theater. Born in the Bronx, Epstein was the son of Harry Epstein, a physician, and his wife Goldie Epstein (née Rudnick). He graduated from the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan and the Queens College, City University of New York. After serving in the United States Army during World War II in Germany, he studied dance in New York with Martha Graham and mime in Paris. His early performances in New York City included appearing in mimes with Marcel Marceau. In 1956 he made his Broadway debut as the Fool in Orson Welles’ 1956 production of William Shakespear's King Lear. That same year he portrayed the slave Lucky in the Broadway premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Epstein continued to appear in many productions of Beckett's plays, including Clov, the servant, in the United States premiere of Endgame in 1958. He portrayed two more characters in that play during his career: Hamm, Clov’s tyrannical blind master, in a 1984 Off-Broadway production that he also directed, at the Samuel Beckett Theater; and Hamm’s aged father, Nagg, who lives in a garbage can, performed at the Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan in 2005 and again, in 2008, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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  • Lauiloa: 1.249
  • Lauiloa mo: Acting
  • Aso fanau: 1925-05-14
  • Nofoaga fanau ai: Bronx, New York, United States
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Alvin Epstein Tifaga

  • 1991
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    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

    7.7 1991 HD

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  • 1991
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    Age Isn't Everything

    Age Isn't Everything

    2 1991 HD

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  • 2014
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    Engram

    Engram

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  • 2008
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    Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    7.56 2008 HD

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  • 1975
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    Everybody Rides the Carousel

    Everybody Rides the Carousel

    5.8 1975 HD

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  • 2014
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    My America

    My America

    1 2014 HD

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  • 1961
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    Waiting for Godot

    Waiting for Godot

    6 1961 HD

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  • 1996
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    Never Met Picasso

    Never Met Picasso

    4.2 1996 HD

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  • 1969
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    Story Theatre

    Story Theatre

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1986
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    Doing Life

    Doing Life

    3 1986 HD

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.9 1999 HD

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

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