Julian Beck
Julian Beck (born May 31, 1925 in Washington Heights (New York City) , † September 14, 1985 in New York City ) was an American actor , director , painter and poet .
Life
The father came from a German-Jewish family from Sambir in Galicia , while the American-born mother had German-American parents. Trained at New York City College, Beck briefly attended Yale University , but dropped out of college to devote himself to writing and the arts. He published some of his poems that contained anarchist ideas, including first published in the magazine Hotcha edited by Urban Gwerder .
In the 1940s he tried his hand as an expressionist painter. In 1943 he met his future wife, the actress Judith Malina , with whom he shared his passion for the theater and with whom he was married from 1948. In the same year he founded his own theater with her, a subscription stage in a basement on Wooster Street. Because the police suspected a brothel here, the name was changed to The Living Theater , which began in the couple's apartment in August 1951. It was a radical, revolutionary theater group that experimented with new forms and content. Though the theater kept getting into trouble with the authorities, it became one of the most famous off-off Broadway theaters.
In 1983 Beck was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He died in 1985 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, while the film Poltergeist II was being made .
Filmography (selection)
- 1967: Edipo Re - Bed of Violence (Edipo re)
- 1969: Candy
- 1969: love and anger (Amore e rabbia)
- 1984: Cotton Club (The Cotton Club)
- 1985: Poltergeist II : The Other Side
- 1986: 9½ weeks (9½ weeks)
literature
- Horst Schumacher: Beck, Julian . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 50 f.
Web links
- Julian Beck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Julian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor, director, painter and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington Heights (New York City) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1985 |
| Place of death | New York City |