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During his lifetime, James Lipton was a Guiding Light actor, a soap opera writer, a Broadway librettist and lyricist, a novelist, and Actors Studio dean — and it was in that lattermost capacity that the American public knew him best. From 1994 to his retirement in 2018, Lipton hosted Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo, asking Hollywood stars about their craft for the edification of his acting students and for his TV audience. “I am not sure that there had been a program prior to Inside the Actors Studio that gave such sustained, deep attention to the labor of screen performance,” Henry Svec, an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, told NBC News in 2020 following Lipton’s death. “Celebrity culture is so often about the private deeds or misdeeds of the people behind the images, but on Inside the Actors Studio, especially those first few seasons, there was a foregrounding of the...

Sadly, there is a significant number of the Glee cast who have passed away, either from causes later in life or from more tragic circumstances. Glee premiered in May 2009 and ushered in an era of Ryan Murphy TV shows that, collectively, may still not rival the cultural influence of his original hit series about a glee club at the fictional William McKinley High School. Though American Horror Story may now be more well-known, and American Crime Story more critically acclaimed, Glee, particularly the first season, was a phenomenon.

Glee utilized a fantastic ensemble cast of talented actors and singers who drove the tongue-in-cheek comedy of the teen show. However, they're better known for belting out Glee's incredible covers of songs. While the series' quality admittedly dipped quickly, the early seasons of the show are some of the best network TV has had to offer. Glee often brought in famed TV...

Steven Spielberg is known for his blockbuster-scale sci-fi films with a strong emotional core. While he has ventured into serious dramatic territory and has succeeded with films like Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and The Post, his contribution to genre-filmmaking is unparalleled.

Before the filmmaker made the iconic E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Spielberg ventured into sci-fi territory immediately after the Summer hit Jaws. With Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg seemed to have his first stint at the UFO film. Like E.T., the film seemed to connect to his parents, which he only to realize after an interviewer pointed it out.

Steven Spielberg Thanked An Interviewer For Noticing The Personal Connection In Close Encounters of the Third Kind A still from Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Credits: Columbia Pictures

After Jaws became the highest-grossing film of all time upon its release, Steven Spielberg went against type and...

I spent the first 37 years of my life on the East Coast, and even there, I knew who Sam Rubin was.

The beloved Ktla Los Angeles entertainment reporter, who died May 10 at age 64, was a Hollywood fixture for over 30 years, beloved, trusted and respected. Drawing heartfelt tributes ranging from industry veterans like Tom Hanks and Henry Winkler and rising stars like Charmaine Bingwa, I’ve never seen such an outpouring for an entertainment journalist since perhaps Roger Ebert in 2013. Sam greeted everyone with the same infectious enthusiasm and genuine curiosity, whether they were industry stalwarts or nervous newcomers. He was synonymous with Los Angeles but he was also known well outside of Southern California through his reporting for ITV and Australia’s 9 Network.

I was fortunate to spend time with Sam off-camera, serving with him on the board of the Critics Choice organization. On my first trip to Los...

Amid tributes from Brad Pitt, Carey Mulligan, and the 2024 Santa Barbara International Film Festival itself, “Maestro” director, co-writer, and star Bradley Cooper fit in his own send-ups to a few famous names he’s gotten to work with.

On Thursday evening, the multi-hyphenate was on hand to accept the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award, and the current Oscar nominee reflected on his career in conversation with Deadline’s Pete Hammond, including the period in which he was a student asking questions at tapings of “Inside the Actors Studio,” hosted by James Lipton.

Recalling when he got to query his future “Silver Linings Playbook” co-star Robert De Niro about whether an acting choice he made in the 1990 film “Awakenings” was inspired by someone he knew, or was organic, Cooper said, “I thought maybe he would laugh. You think all these weird things, that he was going to laugh at you.

There is a video of a young Bradley Cooper asking a deeply thoughtful question to Robert De Niro about his process for the film “Awakenings.” He was among those studying at The Actors Studio Drama School who were the audience for “Inside The Actors Studio” hosted by the late James Lipton. Bradley would guest on the show in 2011.

Through the 2000s, Cooper had great stints in television with a lead role on the Fox sitcom “Kitchen Confidential” which was cancelled after one season and a regular role in J.J. Abram’s “Alias.” It wasn’t until 2009’s “The Hangover” that he got his big break. Todd Philip’s chaotic buddy comedy was a box office smash, making just shy of $500 million worldwide on a $35 million budget. It even won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy in 2011. This spawned two successful sequels that took the box office total for the trilogy to nearly 1.5 billion dollars.

Heather Langenkamp remembers Johnny Depp being a dedicated and serious actor during their time working together on A Nightmare on Elm Street. Langenkamp initially thought Depp would go back to being a musician after the film, as she knew about his passion for music. Langenkamp is still close with some of her Nightmare co-stars, including Robert Englund and Amanda Wyss, and their friendships have grown over the years through conventions.

“I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy.” A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) taunts Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), with those famous words, before he sucks her boyfriend Glen into a bed and turns him into a bright-red fountain of blood! Glen was, of course, the first feature film appearance for Hollywood A-lister Johnny Depp, and Langenkamp recalls the famous actor being a pleasure to work with during the original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Langenkamp said during...

Barbra Streisand wanted Robert Redford to play Hubbell Gardiner, but he initially turned down the role due to the character's lack of development. Sydney Pollack convinced Redford to take the role by promising to rewrite the character to be more complex and give him more depth. Streisand and Redford's on-screen chemistry in The Way We Were created a memorable and heartbreaking romance, despite the film not receiving nominations for best picture or best director at the Academy Awards.

Yes, Robert Redford originally turned down the part of Hubbell Gardiner in The Way We Were. Director Sydney Pollack’s classic romance celebrates its 50th anniversary on October 16, and its star Barbra Streisand talks about Redford’s importance to the film in her upcoming memoir, My Name Is Barbra. In an excerpt shared by Vanity Fair, the 81-year-old acting and singing sensation writes:

“So I wanted Redford for Hubbell. But he turned it down.

Season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” may have just wrapped, but fans can see even more of winner Jimbo and runner-up Kandy Muse — as both drag queens have landed their own series on Wow Presents Plus!

The global multi-platform media company announced Monday that the two series, “Jimbo Presents: It’s My Special Show” and “Inside the Producer’s Studio with Kandy Muse,” will both premiere on Monday, August 7, worldwide, exclusively on Wow Presents Plus. An exciting addition to the platform’s offerings, “Jimbo Presents: It’s My Special Show!” marks the first first Wow Presents Plus original series to be filmed in front of a live studio audience.

Jimbo, who just was inducted into the Drag Race Hall of Fame, hosts “Jimbo Presents: My Special Show,” a bawdy and bodacious talk show with celebrity guests games, and tons of ham. The zany new Wow Presents Plus original harkens...

A classic Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) moment where he insults an FBI agent in fluent Italian potentially creates an accidental The Sopranos plot hole. It was established during The Sopranos season 2, episode 4, "Commendatori" that Tony doesn't speak a word of Italian. This is due to the Soprano family being second or third generation Italian immigrants who settled in America, meaning that Tony and many of his fellow mobsters were raised in the USA. "Commendatori" is an episode that plays on Tony's crew's nostalgia for Italy, despite the fact they were born in America. In one memorable scene, Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) orders Italian-American style spaghetti while they dine in a traditional restaurant.

Ironically, Tony Soprano actor James Gandolfini was from a family who owned land in Italy and his parents spoke fluent Italian. Talking to James Lipton on an episode of Inside the Actor's Studio broadcast in 2004, Gandolfini mentioned that...

When a film or a television show is well-written, even characters who never appear on-screen can cast a long shadow. Think of all the titles where the titular character is nothing but a memory. There are also horror films where the frightening monster remains offscreen but terrifies the viewer nonetheless. In television sitcoms, the notion of the unseen character often becomes an amusing gag. Some viewers love this narrative trick for its hilarity or sinister abilities whereas others hate it.

By dangling these characters out of reach, film and television writers toy with our desire to see more -- forcing viewers to use their imaginations and envision what these individuals look like and who they are. Whether you love this trope or hate it, it's one you're bound to encounter now and then. To better understand how this practice has endured, here's a handy list of some of the most...

The master of the modern blockbuster, Steven Spielberg may be known for capturing spectacle — but he's just as skilled at capturing the human experience. The director's true defining quality is his ability to infuse his films with the achingly personal details of his own life, bottled up as universal themes. His latest film, "The Fabelmans," is not just a semi-autobiographical family drama, but also a perfect excuse to revisit the rest of Spielberg's filmography with fresh eyes. The movie's depiction of his childhood reveals a central tension underlying many of Spielberg's most beloved films. Essentially, this is the story that the filmmaker had been telling for decades — just without his usual comforts of allegory and genre twists.

Take "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," a film about a friendly alien befriending some kid. It may not be immediately clear to all viewers that the story is centered on a divorce-torn family, but...

“The Fabelmans” is billed as Steven Spielberg’s most autobiographical film to date, though viewers who’ve followed the director’s career closely have already absorbed plenty of his life story. Whether or not Spielberg was always aware of this is another question. Recall his episode of “Inside the Actor’s Studio,” in which host James Lipton catches Spielberg off-guard with an observation about “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”: A child of divorce, the son of concert pianist Leah Adler and data processing pioneer Arnold Spielberg had made a movie where humans and extraterrestrials can communicate because “they make music on their computers.” “I’d love to say, ‘You know, I intended that, and I realize that was my mother and father,'” Spielberg tells Lipton, as he cracks a smile. “But not until this moment!”

The splintering of the family unit, characters chasing their dreams or venturing...

This article contains spoilers for Barry season 3.

The mark of a good TV show is to make every season finale feel like a series finale. And through three years of superb storytelling, no TV show has embodied that virtue better than HBO dark comedy Barry.

The story of hitman-turned-actor Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) seemed as though it could have ended in the first season when Barry committed the ultimate sin of killing Detective Janice Moss (Paula Newsome). It felt as though it could end for good in season 2 again when Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler) uncovered Barry’s crime. Now, at the end of season 3, Barry presents its most conclusive ending yet. Barry is tricked into storming into Janice’s father Jim’s home to kill him only to be stopped by an entire LAPD Swat team and taken into custody.

How could a story about a hitman possibly continue after that?...

Benedict Cumberbatch returns as surgeon-superhero Stephen Strange, now on a mission to protect a teen who can visit parallel universes

We are back in the bizarre rococo world – or actually now worlds – of Doctor Strange, Marvel’s mindbending surgeon-turned-superhero who is played with sonorous conviction by Benedict Cumberbatch. He strides unselfconsciously around in a velveteen outfit accessorised with pointy cloak, jet-black goatee and low hairline of pin-sharp definition – similar to the late James Lipton, presenter of TV’s Inside the Actors Studio. Sam Raimi takes over directing duties from the first film’s Scott Derrickson and brings to it essentially the same lite-scary/action aesthetic.

As ever, there is a pert tai chi discipline to the little circular sparkly shapes and mystical cosmic portholes that Dr Strange creates with swivelling hand-movements, and he flies through the air in the accepted style, not facing down flat with one fist out like Superman,...

Even though Sunday’s SAG Awards ceremony will be shortened to just one pre-taped hour on TNT and TBS, the special In Memoriam segment will still be a highlight. Since the 2020 event aired on January 19, it will be over 14 months until the one on April 4. That means even more actors, actresses and members of SAG/AFTRA will hopefully be honored than the 40 people in the tribute last year.

Chadwick Boseman died last August and is a four-time nominee for the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. The two individual nominations are for his leading role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and his supporting performance in “Da 5 Bloods.” Those two films also are nominated for the top ensemble category.

Oscar winners who have died in the past 14 months include Sean Connery, Olivia de Havilland, Cloris Leachman and Christopher Plummer. Academy Award nominees include Boseman, Kirk Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Ian Holm,...

With no Tony Awards this year to honor those Broadway stars and workers who have passed away, a new In Memoriam video directed by actor Raúl Esparza is picking up the mantle. The eight-minute video, called Broadway Remembers, with vocal performances by Esparza and Sierra Boggess pays tribute to more than 100 people from the theater community who June 2019 between December 2020.

Among those remembered: Diana Rigg, Terrence McNally, Nick Cordero, Diahann Carroll, Roger Berlind, Hal Prince, Rebecca Luker, Nick Cordero, James Lipton and Valerie Harper, and many others.

“As we ring in a new year, it felt important for us to celebrate the lives we’ve lost these past many months,” said Esparza. “Normally, we have the occasion to collectively mourn at in-person memorial services, funerals, and once a year at the Tony Awards, with the official in memoriam segment. This year all of that proved impossible, so this is an...

As we finally turn the calendar on the Cruelest Year, let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the memorable people we lost from the world of entertainment. Click through the photo gallery above.

Among those who passed during 2020 were big-screen Hollywood legends from Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland to Sean Connery and Chadwick Boseman, sitcom favorites Jerry Stiller and Dawn Wells and two of the all-time showbiz multihyphenates in Carl Reiner and Buck Henry. Other actors who left us include Diana Rigg, Max Von Sydow, Brian Dennehy, Kelly Preston, Fred Willard, Naya Rivera, Nick Cordero, Monty Python’s Terry Jones and Indian stars Irrfan Khan and Soumitra Chatterjee.

The movie world also mourns filmmakers Alan Parker, Joel Schumacher and Kim Ki-duk, along with a man who would be on a Mount Rushmore for film composers: Ennio Morrocone.

Also gone this past year were such admired TV personalities as Regis Philbin,...

While there were many beloved familiar faces featured during the 2020 Emmy's In Memoriam segment, some were noticeably missing.  During the virtual ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 20, H.E.R. gave a moving performance of "Nothing Compares 2 U" as the names and pictures of actors, producers, executives, writers and directors who had died in 2020 were shown on-screen in tribute. Among the late stars mentioned were Regis Philbin, Naya Rivera, James Lipton, Jerry Stiller, Kirk Douglas and Chadwick Boseman. Jimmy Kimmel paid tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, Sept. 18, as he introduced the segment.  However, as the internet was quick to...

Many TV legends and contributors were included for the “In Memoriam” segment on Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony for ABC. But producers are always forced to omit some of the 100+ insiders who died since the last ceremony. Who was left out of the group that was honored?

With dozens of television veterans having died since last year’s mid-September ceremony, people certainly included were these six TV Academy Hall of Fame members:

Diahann Carroll

Leonard Goldberg (executive at 20th Century Fox and ABC; producer of “Charlie’s Angels” and more)

Jim Lehrer (anchor/reporter of “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour)

Regis Philbin

Carl Reiner

Fred Silverman

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Even though he wasn’t known for his TV work, blockbuster film actor Chadwick Boseman was featured in the final slot. NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was not mentioned, even though the event was being held in the Staples Center.

For Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on ABC, producers will have the always difficult task of assembling a memoriam segment. Even though the event hosted by Jimmy Kimmel will be virtual, it’s a certainty they will include the popular “In Memoriam” on the show.

With over 100 television veterans having died since last year’s mid-September ceremony, those expected to be honored would include such TV legends and TV Academy Hall of Fame members:

Diahann Carroll

Leonard Goldberg (executive at 20th Century Fox and ABC; producer of “Charlie’s Angels” and more)

Jim Lehrer (anchor/reporter of “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour)

Regis Philbin

Carl Reiner

Fred Silverman

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Even though they weren’t known for their TV work, it’s very likely NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant and blockbuster film actor Chadwick Boseman will be honored. Also among the dozens most likely included since they...

Shirley Knight, a two-time Oscar nominee and Emmy-winning actress, died at her daughter’s home in Texas. She was 83.

Knight died of natural causes, her actress daughter Kaitlin Hopkins announced in a note mourning her mother she posted on Facebook. The Kansas native died on Wednesday.

“Early this morning April 22nd you passed away, and your sweet soul left us for a better place. I was at your side and you went peacefully. To me, you were ‘just mom”’ to some you were ‘Miss Knight’, ‘Miss Shirley’, ‘Mama Shirley’ (to my students), ‘Shirl the Girl’ (to your friends), and ‘Shirley Knight’ to your fans,...

Danny Goldman, known as the memorable med student who questions Gene Wilder in the 1974 comedy classic Young Frankenstein, has died. He was 80.

Goldman, a New York native with a long career in entertainment, died on Sunday, his longtime agent and friend Doug Ely announced on Facebook.

“It’s with great sadness that I must tell you that Danny Goldman has passed away. He passed peacefully at home today amongst family and friends, after having suffered a couple of strokes around New Years,” Ely wrote. “I’ve known Danny since 1980 when I first became an agent and he 1st started casting on his own.

Throughout 2020, we will continue to update this photo gallery with major celebrity deaths from film, television, theater and music.

The year has included the losses of honorary Oscar recipient Kirk Douglas, Oscar winner and NBA legend Kobe Bryant, Oscar-nominated writer and director Buck Henry, Oscar nominees Max von Sydow and Stuart Whitman, “Monty Python” co-founder Terry Jones, TV Hall of Fame journalist Jim Lehrer, Emmy winners John Karlen, James Lipton and Gene Reynolds, plus Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and Rush drummer Neil Peart.

Our previous gallery from 2019 featured many names, including Oscar winner Andre Previn, Oscar nominees Doris Day, Diahann Carroll, Albert Finney, Peter Fonda, Robert Forster and John Singleton, Emmy winners Tim Conway and Rip Torn, Tony Awards champ Hal Prince, comedian and actor Bob Einstein, TV producer and writer John Falsey, actress Carol Channing, actress Katherine Helmond, actor Luke Perry, singer James Ingram and Daytime Emmy winner Kristoff St. John.

Throughout 2020, Gold Derby continues to update our photo gallery above with major celebrity deaths from film, television, theater and music. Tour through our pictures so far with the following 11 people currently featured:

Max von Sydow died on March 8 at age 90. The Swedish actor often worked with Ingmar Bergman, including in “The Seventh Seal,” “The Passion of Anna” and “Shame.” He received Oscar nominations for “Pelle the Conqueror” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” plus Emmy bids for “Red King, White Knight” and “Game of Thrones.”

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James Lipton, longtime host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” is dead at the age of 93 on March 2. He received 20 Emmy nominations for that Bravo program and won the award in 2013. He was also nominated in 1988 for an original song on a Bob Hope comedy special.

Actor Robert Conrad died on February 8 at age 84. He was the...

Roscoe Born, a veteran soap actor who appeared on “One Life to Live” and “Santa Barbara” has died at the age of 69.

“It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of Roscoe Born’s passing,” Born’s friend and business partner Deanna Lynne wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. “He was an incredibly talented actor and songwriter. Many who knew him know how dedicated he was to social and political causes. He will be missed forever.”

A cause of death has not been disclosed.

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Born appeared on numerous daytime soaps and was a favorite among soap fans. Although he was best known for starring as arch-villain Mitch Laurence on ABC’s “One Life to Live” on multiple separate occasions between 1985 and the show’s cancellation in 2012, he also played a villain on CBS...

Laurence Fishburne is the Tony-winning and Oscar-nominated star of such films as Apocalypse Now, The Color Purple, What’s Love Got to Do With It and the Matrix. He appeared on James Lipton's Inside the Actors Studio in 1998.

I was a little apprehensive about doing it at first. I think I may have turned down the invitation the first time. But then, after seeing the show a bunch of times, seeing many of my friends and people I’ve worked with doing it, I was like, "Oh, yeah, I can get into that." And when I got a ...

In today’s TV news roundup, MTV announced the premiere date and cast for the 35th season of “The Challenge,” and the CW announces premiere dates for three summer shows.

Casting

MTV has revealed the lineup for season 35 of the reality-competition series “The Challenge,” dubbed “The Challenge: Total Madness.” To commemorate the landmark season, the 28-member cast features a mix of series veterans and newcomers competing in challenges for a million-dollar prize. Among the veterans are Mattie Breaux, Tula “Big T” Fazakerley and Jennifer West, each back for their second-ever challenge; third-time challengers Josh Martinez, Dee Nguyen, Melissa Reeves, Rogan O’Connor and Stephen Bear; fourth-time challenger Tori Deal; fifth-time challengers Kailah Casillas and Kyle Christie; sixth-time challengers Nelson Thomas and Jordan Wisely; seventh-time challengers Ashley Mitchell and Cory Wharton; and eighth-time challenger Jenna Compono. Additionally, mega-veterans such as 13-time challengers Aneesa Ferreira and Wes Bergmann, 17-time challenger Ct Tamburello; and Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio,...

Ellen Burstyn is the Oscar-winning actress who serves as co-president of the Actors Studio and has been co-host of Inside the Actors Studio since James Lipton retired in 2019.

First of all, I knew him as a writer. He wrote that incredible book Exaltation of Larks, so I knew him from that. And then he came to the Actors Studio to the playwright-directors unit after Lee Strasberg had died and I learned that he was so much more than a writer. He produced, he directed, he studied ballet dancing and had been a choreographer at one point.

Jim came up with the idea of ...

Bernard Pivot is the renowned journalist and TV personality whose talk shows were a fixture of French television for several decades. He talked to The Hollywood Reporter two days after James Lipton, a fixture on American television for as many decades, died at the age of 93 of bladder cancer.

One day I received a letter from James Lipton — who I hadn’t yet met — asking me if he could use the 10-question format from my show Bouillon de culture on his new program Inside the Actors Studio. Apparently he had seen Bouillon de culture, as well as my literary interview show ...

It is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of James Lipton, the creator, executive producer and longtime host of Bravo’s interview series Inside the Actors Studio. News of Lipton's death broke early Monday afternoon, when Lipton's wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lipton, announced that the Hollywood icon had died of bladder cancer in his Manhattan home. He was 93. During…...

James Lipton‘s impact on Hollywood is being felt in the wake of his death at 93.

The executive producer, writer and host of Inside The Actors Studio died on Monday at his Manhattan home from bladder cancer, his wife Kendekai Turner, told The New York Times.

Lipton created the memorable and iconic Bravo show in 1994 and worked on it for 25 years until he stepped down in September 2018.

Memorable friends of his, including guests and those who took over hosting duties after he stepped away, shared their tributes on social media, remembering his legacy, his wit and his love for the craft of acting.

Tributes to James Lipton rolled in from celebrities and entertainment industry elites Monday after news broke that the former host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” has died at the age of 93.

“He was interested in the actor’s process, which was so refreshing,” Barbra Streisand tweeted.

“The Simpsons” co-creator Al Jean, Donald Trump Jr., former “America’s Got Talent” judge Piers Morgan, former CNN and Fox News host Greta Van Susteren and “Pose” co-creator Steven Canals led the chorus of voices who took to Twitter to remember Lipton.

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The president’s son posted a photo of Lipton along with a memory of befriending the late host during the filming of “The Apprentice.” “Very sad to hear of the passing of my friend and great guy James Lipton,” Trump Jr. wrote. “We got to know each other...

The late James Lipton was asked in 2017 who among the many legendary stars and thespians he’s interviewed over the years was his absolute favorite interview, and it wasn’t some Old Hollywood icon but Bradley Cooper.

Cooper, it turns out, was a student in the Actors Studio and auditioned with Lipton when the “Inside the Actors Studio” host was Dean of the school for 10 years. Lipton had personally accepted Cooper into the program. Both he and Cooper got emotional at seeing how far Cooper had come in his career since his days in the acting school.

“The night that one of my students has achieved so much that he or she comes back and sits down in that chair next to me will be the night I’ve waited for since we started this thing 23 years, and it turned out to be Bradley Cooper,” Lipton told Larry King in 2017. “I auditioned him.

James Lipton, the longtime host of the acclaimed interview series Inside the Actors Studio, died Monday, The New York Times reports. He was 93.

Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lipton, confirmed his death and said the cause was bladder cancer.

Lipton created and launched Inside the Actors Studio in 1994 and hosted the Bravo series for 24 years, finally stepping down in 2018 (it now airs on Ovation with rotating guest hosts). The show garnered acclaim and popularity as Lipton, with a pile of blue notecards, guided renowned actors and entertainers through in-depth interviews...

James Lipton, longtime host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” is dead at the age of 93 on March 2. He received 20 Emmy nominations for that Bravo program and won the award in 2013. He was also nominated in 1988 for an original song on a Bob Hope comedy special. Tour our memoriam photo gallery featuring celebrity deaths from 2020.

After 250 interviews on his own show, Gold Derby turned the tables for a lengthy 17-minute chat with Lipton in 2017. That evening was his final time at the Emmy Awards as a nominee. Watch the exclusive video above.

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In the chat, he exclaimed, “That was extraordinary! It did take a long time and was the sweet 16th nomination when we won the Emmy!” He added, “I was sitting in my seat without any particular hope. I’m honored as always to be nominated. Imagine to be nominated...

If heaven exists, God may be the one fielding questions right now at the pearly gates. James Lipton, the actor turned sage interlocutor who interviewed hundreds of actors and entertainers over the course of more than 20 years on Inside the Actors Studio, died Monday at the age of 93. The seemingly ageless TV star only retired a little over two years ago after having kept his format reliably the same since the show's inception in 1994: an in-depth interview, followed by a list of 10 questions. Which is why we know that Brad Pitt's favorite curse word is "c--k." For its 23rd season, the longtime Bravo series had relaunched on Ovation under...

James Lipton, a veteran television writer and host of the TV series Inside the Actors Studio, has passed away. The news was confirmed by Lipton's wife, Kedakai Turner, who tells TMZ the beloved television personality died peacefully at his home on Monday morning at the age of 93. "There are so many James Lipton stories but I'm sure he would like to be remembered as someone who loved what he did and had tremendous respect for all the people he worked with," Turner says of her late husband.

Lipton was born in 1926 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He began working as a performer in the early '50s, starring in the Broadway rendition of The Autumn Garden and appearing in the 1953 movie The Big Break. While working as an actor, Lipton also found steady work writing for soap operas, and would later publish multiple books as an author in subsequent years.

Actor and television personality James Lipton has died at the age of 93. Lipton was best known as the creator and host of the long-running TV series Inside the Actors Studio, which he hosted for 22 seasons. He won an Emmy for his work on the show, was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award […]

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James Lipton, who was best known for hosting the TV series Inside the Actors Studio, has died at 93.

Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Turner, confirmed to TMZ that he died on Monday morning at his home from bladder cancer. “There are so many James Lipton stories but I’m sure he would like to be remembered as someone who loved what he did and had tremendous respect for all the people he worked with.”...

James Lipton, who was best known for creating and hosting Inside the Actors Studio, has died at the age of 93. His wife Kedakai Turner told TMZ that Lipton died Monday morning at his New York City home after a battle with bladder cancer.

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James Lipton, the acclaimed wordsmith, theater historian, radio star, and long-time host of “Inside the Actors Studio” has passed away at the age of 93. The news was confirmed by both TMZ and Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Turner.

He created “Inside the Actors Studio” in 1994 wherein students of the Actors Studio Drama School could listen to successful performers discuss their craft with Lipton. Paul Newman was the inaugural guest and from there Lipton interviewed nearly 300 award-winning actors. The series was one of Bravo’s longest-running series and won a Primetime Emmy. The series also garnered a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmys in 2016 and a Critics Choice award for best reality show host. In 2018 the series moved from Bravo onto Ovation, a move coinciding with Lipton’s retirement from the program.

The young James Lipton began his writing employment as a teenager, where he was a copyboy for “The Detroit Times.

Hollywood is mourning the loss of James Lipton. The creator and host of the hit Bravo series Inside the Actors Studio has died, his wife Kedakai Turner confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. According to Kedakai, James passed away at his home in Manhattan on Monday morning from bladder cancer. He was 93. Many pop culture fans will remember James' work with Inside the Actors Studio, which was created to serve as a master class for students of the Actors Studio Drama School. It later became one of cable's longest-running series. "#JamesLipton was a warm, meticulous man with a great appreciation of the arts and wicked sense of humor.  He was the face of Bravo who delivered us...

The late James Lipton absolutely loved Will Ferrell’s “Saturday Night Live” impression of his “Inside the Actors Studio” interviews, giant stack of blue question cards and all.

“I have never been so grateful in my life as I am to Will Ferrell,” Lipton told fellow TV host Andy Cohen a few years back when asked for his first reaction to the impersonation.

Watch that conversation via the video above.

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And remember Ferrell-as-Lipton in a select “SNL” sketch below.



That’s Kate Hudson playing Drew Barrymore — the skit is from Season 26, way back in 2000.

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Lipton, who suffered from bladder cancer, died Monday in his Manhattan home.

A writer and producer, Lipton joined the Actors Studio in 1992 and went on to create “Inside the Actors Studio,” a series of seminars for...

James Lipton, best known for his many years as host of the interview series Inside the Actors Studio, died Monday at the age of 93. Per TMZ, Lipton passed away at his home after a battle with bladder cancer.

“There are so many James Lipton stories, but I’m sure he would like to be remembered as someone who loved what he did and had tremendous respect for all the people he worked with,” Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Turner, told TMZ.

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James Lipton, executive producer, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio, has died. He was 93.

Lipton’s wife Kendekai Turner told The New York Times that he died at his Manhattan home Monday from bladder cancer.

In 1994, he created Inside the Actors Studio and served as the host and executive producer from its inception until he stepped down in September 2018 after nearly 25 years. The show was one of cable’s longest-running series. He had also served as the Dean Emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City for several years.

Born in Detroit on Sept.

James Lipton, the creator, executive producer and longtime host of Bravo’s interview series Inside the Actors Studio, died today of bladder cancer at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.

His wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lipton, announced his death.

From 1994 until his retirement last year, Lipton interviewed seemingly countless actors about their careers, training and the acting life on the Emmy-winning talk show. Known for his extensive research – detailed on the collection of index cards he kept at the ready – the genial, professorial and ever-curious Lipton was known for for the extensive pre-show research that would fill up the many blue cards he carried onto the set.

Lipton announced his retirement from the show in 2018, timed to coincide with the show’s 2019 move from its longstanding home on Bravo to Ovation TV. The latest incarnation of Inside The Actors Studio – part of the master’s degree program at the Actors Studio...

James Lipton, who created, hosted and executive produced the Bravo series “Inside the Actors Studio” and served as dean (and then dean emeritus) of the Actors Studio Drama School at New York City’s Pace University, has died. He was 93.

“Inside the Actors Studio” had run for more than two decades and more than 240 episodes on Bravo beginning in 1994. It moved to Ovation TV in its 23rd season, which premiered last October.

Ovation issued a statement saying, “We celebrate and honor the great legacy of James Lipton. James is beloved around the world for his passion, insight, and dedication to the craft of acting. With ‘Inside the Actors Studio,’ James has created a long-lasting impact on the acting world. Ovation mourns his loss and offers deepest condolences to his family, friends and fans.”

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James Lipton, the host and creator of “Inside the Actors Studio” has died at the age of 93.

Lipton died in his Manhattan home on Monday after a battle with bladder cancer, his wife Kedakai Mercedes Lipton said.

A writer and producer, Lipton joined the Actors Studio in 1992 and went on to create “Inside the Actors Studio,” a series of seminars for drama students consisting of lengthy one-on-one conversations with performers dissecting their craft and experience. The series debuted in 1994 on Bravo and featured hundreds of guests including Paul Newman, Halle Berry, Meryl Streep, and Robin Williams.

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“Inside the Actors Studio” went on to earn 21 Primetime Emmy nominations, winning in 2013 for outstanding informational series or special.

Lipton left the show when it moved from Bravo to Ovation in 2019. The show employs the same format, with a rotating series of guests in place of a set host.

Hollywood stars and public figures took to social media to pay tribute to actor and theater academic James Lipton, who died Monday from bladder cancer. He was 93.

Lipton's wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lipton, issued a statement to The Hollywood Reporter following his death: "He lived each day as if it were his last. His work was his passion, loved what he did and all the people he worked with. He empowered people to do their best and hopefully his spirit, curiosity and passion will live on."

Lipton was best known for his work on Bravo's Inside the Actors ...