Jack Garfein

Jack Garfein

Born: July 2, 1930
Died: December 30, 2019
in Mukachevo, Zakarpatskaya oblast, USSR [now Ukraine]

Movies for Jack Garfein...

The Wild One
Title: The Wild One
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2023
Type: Movie
In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio - past and and present freely intermingled to contribute to memorable stage productions and in two films, many which were ahead of their time in tackling such issues as homosexuality, race and violence. Powered by his vivid recollections and augmented with readings by Willem Dafoe, The Wild One traces Garfein’s life: his Czechoslovakian youth, his family’s fleeing the Nazis, surviving in Auschwitz and other camps, his 1946 arrival at 16 in New York and coming under the wing of Lee Strasberg, Hollywood, his marriage to actress Carroll Baker.
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An Organization of Dreams
Title: An Organization of Dreams
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 2009
Type: Movie
A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?