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词条 Gene Saks
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

  4. Awards, nominations and honours

  5. Filmography

     Actor  Director 

  6. References

  7. External links

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|11|08}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|03|28|1921|11|08}}
| death_place = East Hampton, New York, U.S.
| occupation = American actor, stage/film director
| years_active = 1949–2015
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Gene Saks (November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015) was an American stage, film director, and actor. An inductee of the American Theater Hall of Fame, his acting career beginning with a debut on Broadway in 1949. As a director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three for his direction of I Love My Wife, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. He also directed a number of films during his career. He was married to Bea Arthur from 1950 until 1978, and subsequently to Keren Saks, from 1980 to his death in 2015.

Early life

Saks was born Jean Michael Saks in New York City, the son of Beatrix (née Lewkowitz) and Morris J. Saks.[1] Saks first became involved in theater as a student at Hackensack High School.[2]

He studied at Cornell University and trained for acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the German director Erwin Piscator.

Career

Saks made his acting debut on Broadway in South Pacific in 1949. On stage he also appeared in A Shot in the Dark, The Tenth Man and A Thousand Clowns, in the role of Leo "Chuckles The Chipmunk" Herman, which he reprised in the film version. He portrayed Jack Lemmon's brother in the screen adaptation of Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue, and also appeared in Nobody's Fool starring Paul Newman.[3]

Saks shared a long-term professional association with playwright/comedy writer Neil Simon,[4] directing Simon's plays Biloxi Blues, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Jake's Women, Rumors, Lost in Yonkers, Broadway Bound, The Odd Couple and California Suite. His additional Broadway credits included Enter Laughing; Half a Sixpence; Nobody Loves an Albatross; Mame; I Love My Wife; Same Time, Next Year and Rags.

Among Saks' film directing credits were Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower (which won Goldie Hawn the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Mame, Brighton Beach Memoirs, A Fine Romance, and the 1995 television production of Bye Bye Birdie.[3]

Personal life

Saks was married to fellow Actors Studio member actress Bea Arthur,[4] from 1950 until 1978. The couple had two sons, by adoption: Matthew (born in 1961), an actor, and Daniel (born in 1964), a set designer. He also had a daughter by his second wife Keren Saks.[4] Saks succumbed to pneumonia at East Hampton residence on March 28, 2015, aged 93.[5]

Awards, nominations and honours

Awards
  • 1977 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – I Love My Wife
  • 1983 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play – Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • 1985 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play – Biloxi Blues
Nominations
  • 1965 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – Half a Sixpence
  • 1966 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – Mame
  • 1969 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Movie – The Odd Couple
  • 1975 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – Same Time, Next Year
  • 1975 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play – Same Time, Next Year
  • 1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical – I Love My Wife
  • 1985 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – Biloxi Blues
  • 1987 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play – Broadway Bound
  • 1991 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play – Lost in Yonkers
Honours
  • Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1991.[6]

Filmography

Actor

Year Title Role Notes
1951Out ThereEpisode: “Misfit”
1954OmnibusTraveling salesmanEpisode: “Hilde and the Turnpike”
1955DangerEpisode: “Precinct Girl”
1955You Are TherePvt. LambertEpisode: “D-Day (June 6, 1944)”
1955Producers' ShowcaseWaiterEpisode: “Reunion in Vienna”
1955Pond's TheaterEpisode: "The Ways of Courage"
1955The Elgin HourMitchell SandersEpisode: “Mind Over Momma”
1955Playwrights '56Mr. BaumgartenEpisode: “Snow Job”
1956Playwrights '56DoctorEpisode: “The Center of the Maze”
1956Playwrights '56EmceeEpisode: “You Sometimes Get Rich”
1958Kraft TheatreEpisode: “Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned” Anthology series
1958Where Is Thy Brother?Mr. Kalish
1959Bachelor FatherFredEpisode:”Bentley, the Organizer”
1959Mike HammerGobo McCoy”See No Evil”
1959BrennerVinnie HarperEpisode: “Small Take”
1959RendezvousEpisode:” The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit”
1960Play of the WeekMikoel”The Dybbuk”
1961Great Ghost TalesEpisode: “Bye Bye Baby”
1961The United States Steel HourWillieEpisode: “Man on the Mountain Top”
1963Armstrong Circle TheatreArthur VernonEpisode: “The Embezzler”
1965A Thousand ClownsLeo
1975The Prisoner of Second AvenueHarry Edison
1978The One and OnlySidney Seltzer
1983LovesickFrantic Patient
1984The Goodbye PeopleMarcus Soloway
1991The Good Policeman
1994Nobody's FoolWirf
1994I.Q.Boris Podolsky
1996On Seventh AvenueSol Jacobs
1997Deconstructing HarryHarry's Father
1998Law & OrderJudge Carl SamuelEpisode: “Castoff”

Director

Year Title Notes
1967Barefoot in the Park
1968The Odd Couple
1969Cactus Flower
1972Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1974Mame
1986Brighton Beach Memoirs
1991A Fine Romance
1995Bye Bye BirdieTV Movie

References

1. ^Gene Saks profile, FilmReference.com, accessed August 23, 2011.
2. ^Staff. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LYpIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22hackensack+High+School%22+%22Gene+Saks%22 "Who's Who in the Cast"], Playbill, 1981. Accessed August 13, 2018. "Gene Saks (Director) began his theatrical career playing Lord Fancourt Babberley in the Hackensack High School's production of Charlie's Aunt."
3. ^{{IBDB name|16060}}
4. ^Gene Saks/Beatrice Arthur at the University of Wisconsin's Actor Studio audio collection {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502211533/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-tape00339a |date=2014-05-02 }}
5. ^{{cite web| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/theater/gene-saks-actor-and-director-of-stage-and-film-dies-at-93.html|title=Gene Saks, Tony-Winning Director of Neil Simon Hits, Dies at 93| first=Bruce| last=Weber| work=The New York Times| date=March 29, 2015| accessdate=March 29, 2015}}
6. ^{{cite web| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/06/theater/on-stage-and-off.html| title=On Stage, and Off| work=The New York Times| date=December 6, 1991}}

External links

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  • Gene Saks at the University of Wisconsin's [https://web.archive.org/web/20140502211533/http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-tape00339a Actors Studio audio collection]
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