As with so many subjective “things” in life, there is a great deal disagreement over who are the best method acting greats in the acting business and in movies. A good place to start in a search for the best of the method acting greats is the famed Actor’s Studio in New York City. Run for fifty years by the imitable Lee Strasberg, the Actor’s Studio turned out some of the great method acting legends in movies of the 20th century.

Acting greats that were part of the Actor’s Studio and who were instructed by Lee Strasberg include:

1. Marlon Brando. Brando necessarily must be on list of any great method actor. Particularly in his early roles, Brando breathed a believability into his work that truly transcended the movies he appeared in and made it seem as if he were the living and breathing character he portrayed.

2. Sidney Poitier. No actor in the 20th century broke down more barriers in Hollywood than did Poitier. And, he accomplished so much because of his ability to inhabit the souls of his characters and bring them to life on the big screen

2 James Dean. Although his life was tragically interrupted briefly by Dean on the big screen in films and remarkable. serious thinkers in the world of cinema Dean credit for cutting a credible first step on a few roles he has to play on the screen before her death. There is a general consensus that the next Dean lived in his youth, he was one of the few actors who dominate the business today.

3 Robert de Niro. Of Niro é one of the properties hottest in the cinema today. Either in the paper of a dangerous psychopath way for a father, silly paran