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Gene Frankel was born on 23 December, 1919, is an American actor, theater director, and acting teacher. Discover Gene Frankel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?
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20 April, 2005 |
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Gene Frankel Height, Weight & Measurements
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Gene Frankel Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Gene Frankel worth at the age of 85 years old? Gene Frankel’s income source is mostly from being a successful actor. He is from American. We have estimated Gene Frankel's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Eugene V. Frankel (December 23, 1919 – April 20, 2005) was an American actor, theater director, and acting teacher especially notable in the founding of the off-Broadway scene.
Frankel served in the Army during World War II in entertainment and as a member of an aerial crew.
Frankel was awarded the first Obie Award for directing, with his production of Volpone (1958) and then won two more also for directing.
He also received the first Lola d'Annunzi and Vernon Rice awards for outstanding achievement in theater.
Frankel's direction of the off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks was regarded as a crucial production in promoting African-American theater during the civil-rights movement which opened in 1961 and ran at St. Mark's Theatre for more than 1,400 performances, the longest-running Off-Broadway non-musical of the decade.
He began his own career as an actor and was one of the earliest members of the Actors Studio.
He moved behind the scenes and became a theater director on and off Broadway.
His other Broadway productions included A Cry of Players (1968), Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars (1972) and Harry Chapin's The Night That Made America Famous (1975).
He directed an Arthur Miller play when Miller was married to Marilyn Monroe.
As well as directing over 200 shows and managing at least twelve theaters throughout his career, Frankel taught acting, writing and directing.
His last stage was the Gene Frankel Theatre and Film Workshop at 24 Bond Street in Greenwich Village.
Frankel said that the heart of successful acting was, "Truth. I don't let my actors tell lies. The camera doesn't lie, the stage doesn't let you lie."
He was a visiting professor in theater at various institutions of higher learning including Columbia University, Boston College, and New York University.
His most notable Broadway production was Arthur Kopit's Indians starring Stacy Keach, who was nominated for the 1970 Tony Award as Best Actor for his portrayal of Buffalo Bill.
The production was also nominated for a Tony Award for best play of 1970.
On August 4, 1973, his Mercer Arts Center, a complex of seven small theaters, which had been located on the first two floors of the residential Broadway Central Hotel, physically collapsed.
Frankel, who had been conducting a rehearsal at the time, noticed the ceiling and walls beginning to buckle and heroically led the actors and several residents to safety; five people died in the collapse.
Only his last theater was a financial success, serving as home to artistic director Christopher Groenwald's New Mercury Players and as a satellite location for artistic director Marilyn Majeski's Grove Street Playhouse.
His son, an aspiring actor, who studied at his father's school had struggled with psychiatric illness which led him to leap off the top of a Manhattan 17-floor-building in 1995 during a psychosis from which he survived.
After a lengthy coma and therapy to learn to walk again Ethan was placed in a group home in the Bronx where he was murdered by a fellow resident the following year.
Frankel created a scholarship at his theater in his son's name.
In 2003 Frankel made Gail Thacker Managing Director of the Gene Frankel Theatre and Film Workshop at the Bond Street location.
Upon Frankel's death his legacy passed into Thacker's trust.