Louis James Lipton (September 19, 1926 â€" March 2, 2020) was an
American writer, lyricist, actor, and dean emeritus of the Actors
Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the
executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television
series Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994. He retired
from the show in 2018.Lipton was born on September 19, 1926, in
Detroit, Michigan, the only child of Betty (née Weinberg), a teacher
and librarian, and Lawrence Lipton, a journalist and beat poet. Known
for writing the Beat Generation chronicle The Holy Barbarians,
Lawrence was a graphic designer, a columnist for the Jewish Daily
Forward, and a publicity director for a movie theater. Lawrence was a
Polish Jewish emigrant (from Šódź), whose surname was originally
"Lipschitz". Betty's parents were Russian Jews. His parents divorced
when Lipton was six, and his father abandoned the family.Lipton's
family struggled financially, and he started to work at age 13. He
worked in high school as a newspaper copy boy for the Detroit Times
and as an actor in the Catholic Theater of Detroit and in radio. After
graduating from Central High School in Detroit, he attended Wayne
State University for one year in the mid-1940s and enlisted in the
United States Air Force. In the 1950s, Lipton worked as a pimp when he
was living in Paris.
American writer, lyricist, actor, and dean emeritus of the Actors
Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He was the
executive producer, writer, and host of the Bravo cable television
series Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994. He retired
from the show in 2018.Lipton was born on September 19, 1926, in
Detroit, Michigan, the only child of Betty (née Weinberg), a teacher
and librarian, and Lawrence Lipton, a journalist and beat poet. Known
for writing the Beat Generation chronicle The Holy Barbarians,
Lawrence was a graphic designer, a columnist for the Jewish Daily
Forward, and a publicity director for a movie theater. Lawrence was a
Polish Jewish emigrant (from Šódź), whose surname was originally
"Lipschitz". Betty's parents were Russian Jews. His parents divorced
when Lipton was six, and his father abandoned the family.Lipton's
family struggled financially, and he started to work at age 13. He
worked in high school as a newspaper copy boy for the Detroit Times
and as an actor in the Catholic Theater of Detroit and in radio. After
graduating from Central High School in Detroit, he attended Wayne
State University for one year in the mid-1940s and enlisted in the
United States Air Force. In the 1950s, Lipton worked as a pimp when he
was living in Paris.
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