lostwanderer02

lostwanderer02 t1_jdtwnf1 wrote

I think Jack Nicholson and Bette Davis are the best of the actors with no schooling that didn't start out when they were kids or teenagers. Most of the actors on the list who are not trained at school started working as minors and already had a foot in the door by the time they achieved success as adults.

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lostwanderer02 t1_jdpzmjv wrote

Montgomery Clift could easily be placed on either list because he started as a child actor and was already an accomplished and fully formed actor before he reached his 20's. At 23 he took acting classes at The Actors Studio under Robert Lewis who is probably the most forgotten of the three original method acting teachers. The other two were Stella Adler (who Marlon Brando studied under) and Lee Strasberg (who James Dean studied under).

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