Born
Harold Saul Guskin
Died
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Actor, acting coach
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Sandra Jennings
Harold Saul Guskin (May 25, 1941 – May 10, 2018) was an American actor and acting coach.[1] He coached Glenn Close, James Gandolfini and Gabriel Macht.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
He learned playing the trombone in high school but replaced it with theatre, then he started attending acting classes and did bachelor's degree in drama at Rutgers University, then earned a master's from Indiana University Bloomington.[8]
In 1970, Guskin began teaching at Illinois Wesleyan UniversityinBloomington, then moved to the New York University Tisch School of the Arts,[9] where he was not happy with academic world. In the 1980 he joined the Public Theater for three years where he did workshops to introduced his acting techniques.[10]
He published a book "How to Stop Acting" (2003) a book about acting techniques.[5]
On May 10, 2018, he died in Park Ridge, New Jersey. His wife reported the cause of death as a pulmonary embolism. He had contracted primary progressive aphasia, a rare form of dementia, over decade before his death.[5]
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