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coached Marlon Brando for his groundbreaking role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and later for his Oscar®-winning performance in "On the Waterfront." His own acting career broke ground in the late sixties with his role opposite Robert De Niro in "Greetings." Garfield is best known for his performance in such films as Francis Ford Coppola's "the Conversation," Wim Wenders' "The State of Things," Robert Altman's "Nashville," Richard Rush's "The Stunt Man," and Michael Ritchie's "The Candidate." Garfield is a Life Member of The Actors Studio. He is also a founding director of The Actors Shelter in Los Angeles where he has taught actors, writers, and directors since 1982. His first long-term student was Oscar®-winning director Quentin Tarantino, with whom he has now done two films. He studied acting for years in New York under Lee Strasberg, Harold Olurman, Elia Kazan, and Jack Garfien at the Actors Studio, and is currently a charter member of the Saturday Master Class in Beverly Hills. |
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