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Sanford Meisner (born August 31, 1905, New York City, died February 2, 1997, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California) was an actor and a teacher of acting. A founding member of the Group Theatre in New York during the 1930s and 1940s, he went on to teach at the Neighborhood Playhouse for more than 50 years. He developed the Meisner Technique of acting.

The goal of Meisner training is to get actors to "live truthfully under imaginary circumstances." Built on the work of Konstantin Stanislavski, grandfather of method acting, Meisner's work encourages a more specifically active, "moment-to-moment" spontaneity.

Some prominent actors who trained at The Neighborhood Playhouse under Sanford Meisner are Jeff Goldblum, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Grace Kelly, Gregory Peck, Joanne Woodward, Allison Janney, and Mary Steenburgen.

Meisner's last acting role was as Joseph Klein in a 1995 episode of ER, "Sleepless in Chicago". Noah Wyle later said that the scene in which his character, Dr. John Carter, reads a poem to Klein on his deathbed was one of the highlights of his career, since he got to work with the legend.

Filmography

Mikey and Nicky
(1976
)
Tender is the Night
(1962
)
The Story on Page One (1959
)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1985
)

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