James Lipton

James Lipton created and hosted 'Inside the Actors Studio' for twenty-five years, turning the craft interview into a form of its own and building an archive of several hundred conversations with actors, directors and writers. He was dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School. His father Lawrence was a Polish Jewish emigrant from Łódź whose family name had been Lipschitz; his mother Betty Weinberg was a teacher and librarian, and her own parents were Russian Jews.