Alvin Epstein

Actor
BirthdayMay 14, 1925 (93 years old)
DeathdayDec 10, 2018
Place of birthBronx, New York, United States
GenderMale

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.

Known for

Bookseller (voice)

Oct 22, 1991

Harold Lassiter

Sep 20, 1999

Man with Nose Bleed

Oct 24, 2008

Dr. Chester, Stuart Rubin

Sep 13, 1990

Prologue (voice)

Jun 8, 1975

Uncle Alfred

Jan 1, 1996

Dr. Hirsch

Jan 2, 1991

Lucky

Jan 1, 1961

Lou Rosenberg

Jan 1, 1986

Jan 1, 2014

Jul 4, 2014

Ensemble Member

Nov 28, 1969

Bookseller (voice)

Oct 22, 1991

Harold Lassiter

Sep 20, 1999

Man with Nose Bleed

Oct 24, 2008

Dr. Chester, Stuart Rubin

Sep 13, 1990

Prologue (voice)

Jun 8, 1975

Uncle Alfred

Jan 1, 1996

Acting


Participated in 10 movies, 2 TV series


2014


2008

Man with Nose Bleed


1999


1996

Uncle Alfred


1991

Bookseller (voice)


1991


1990

Dr. Chester, Stuart Rubin


1986

Lou Rosenberg


1975

Prologue (voice)


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