Skip to content
226,923 profiles ranked

Lee Strasberg

American theatre director, actor and acting teacher (1901-1982) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 80

Lee Strasberg was an American acting coach and actor. Born in Budzanów, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he immigrated to the United States in 1909.

Lee Strasberg is read about 1,366 times a day, in 47 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare

A life in dates

1982Died17 February 1982Night of 100 StarsFilm, 19821979...And Justice for AllFilm, Grandpa Sam1978The Last TenantFilm, Frank1977Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for TelevisionSeries, Hyman Roth1976The Cassandra CrossingFilm, Herman Kaplan1971Film '72Series1966The Legend of Marilyn MonroeFilm1962The Merv Griffin ShowSeriesJaneFilm, 19621953China VentureFilm, Patterson1937ParnellFilm, Pat1901Born17 November 1901

People around Lee

Lee Strasberg

Partners

Children

Is this everyone?

Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong. A marriage is drawn as ended only where its end is recorded, so a spouse drawn here may be a former one.

Correct this family

Known for

View all 22 titles
  • The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 1992
  • The Godfather Part II 1974
  • ...And Justice for All 1979
  • Going in Style 1979
  • The Cassandra Crossing 1976

Also in Deutsch Français

Filmography 22

26 credits on file

Television 3

Media & music

Awards

Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

About this person

He co-founded, with theatre directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective". In 1951, he became director of the nonprofit Actors Studio in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school," and, in 1966, he was involved in the creation of Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1982 · aged 80

In the same film or series as Lee

Ruth GordonAlso in Boardwalk (1979)George BurnsAlso in Going in Style (1979)Eddie AlbertAlso in The Gun Runners (1958)Dominic ChianeseAlso in The Godfather Part II (1974)Alida ValliAlso in The Cassandra Crossing (1976)Bruno KirbyAlso in The Godfather Part II (1974)