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.

  • Title: Alvin Epstein
  • Popularity: 1.684
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1925-05-14
  • Place of Birth: Bronx, New York, United States
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Alvin Epstein Movies

  • 1991
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    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

    7.7 1991 HD

    Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the...

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  • 1991
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    Age Isn't Everything

    Age Isn't Everything

    2 1991 HD

    Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.

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  • 2014
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    Engram

    Engram

    1 2014 HD

    An elderly woman enters a Manhattan subway station only to find herself sitting on a bench beside an elderly man of roughly the same age. As they sit...

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  • 2008
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    Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    7.6 2008 HD

    A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as...

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  • 1975
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    Everybody Rides the Carousel

    Everybody Rides the Carousel

    5.8 1975 HD

    Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one...

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  • 2014
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    My America

    My America

    1 2014 HD

    21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the...

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  • 1961
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    Waiting for Godot

    Waiting for Godot

    6 1961 HD

    Two derelicts, Vladimir and Estragon, occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.

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  • 1996
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    Never Met Picasso

    Never Met Picasso

    4.2 1996 HD

    Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to...

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  • 1969
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    Story Theatre

    Story Theatre

    1 1969 HD

    Brothers Grimm tales like "The Golden Goose," "The Bremen Town Musicians" and "The Blue Light" come to life in this stripped-down stage production,...

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  • 1986
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    Doing Life

    Doing Life

    3 1986 HD

    Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome "Jerry" Rosenburg, a self-professed "jailhouse lawyer" who defends himself against the homicide...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.933 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.392 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.392 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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