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Morris Carnovsky
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Actor Born: September 5, 1898 in St. Louis, MO Death: September 1, 1992 in Easton, CT Biography:The son of a St. Louis grocer, "Morris Carnovsky" was briefly associated with the Yiddish Theatre before attending Washington University. Carnovsky spent his earliest professional years in the Henry Jewitt and E. E. Clive stock companies, and also worked at the legendary Provincetown Playhouse. In 1931, he was among the charter members of the Group Theatre, remaining with that organization for nearly a decade. Carnovsky's work in Awake and Sing (1936) and "Golden Boy" (1938) helped solidify the reputation of the Group's foremost playwright, Clifford Odets. During his tenure with the Group, Carnovsky took time out to appear in the Theatre Guild's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Men In White"(1933); he also made his first film appearance, playing Anatole France in the 1937 Oscar-winner "The Life of Emile Zola". A Hollywood resident from 1940, Carnovsky was intimately involved with the Actor's Laboratory, a... Full Biography
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