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James Lipton
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Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor Biography:Best known as the urbane and cultured host of the Bravo network's piéce-de-resistance, Inside the Actors Studio (where his manner prompted one publication to refer to him as a "polymath linguist"), James Lipton also served as the dean emeritus of the Actor's Studio Drama School at Manhattan's New School University while headlining that iconic television program. The son of a graphic artist-cum-writer father and a teacher mother, Lipton was born in Detroit in 1926 and began a career stint in the early '40s on radio highlighted by an ongoing performance on the drama The Lone Ranger. He spent the postwar years in Paris, and briefly worked as a mec, or an arranger of client services for French prostitutes. In subsequent years, Lipton returned to the United States, married actress Nina Foch (whom he subsequently divorced), and embarked on twin careers as a writer and actor in the soap opera venue. He... Full Biography
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