Alvin Epstein1925 - 2018

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Actor

Popularity

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Famous

Biography

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.

Credits

My America
My America

2014

Documentary

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Engram
Engram

2014

Drama

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0.2
The Brooklyn Heist
The Brooklyn Heist

2009

Action • Adventure • Comedy

as Officer Clerk

3.8
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Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York

2008

Drama

as Man with Nose Bleed

7.5
3.2
Never Met Picasso
Never Met Picasso

1996

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Uncle Alfred

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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

1991

Animation • Family • Fantasy • Romance

as Bookseller (voice)

7.7
13
Age Isn't Everything
Age Isn't Everything

1991

Comedy • Drama • Fantasy

as Dr. Hirsch

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0.2
Doing Life
Doing Life

1986

Drama • TV Movie

as Lou Rosenberg

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Everybody Rides the Carousel
Everybody Rides the Carousel

1975

Animation

as Prologue (voice)

5.8
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Story Theatre
Story Theatre

1969

as Ensemble Member

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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot

1961

Comedy • Drama

as Lucky

6
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