Peter Kass, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPeter Kass
American actor
Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1923
Date of Death: 04-Aug-2008
Profession: actor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Peter Kass
- Peter Meyer Kass (April 28, 1923 – 4 August 2008) was an American theater actor and director who became a well-known teacher.
- His mentor Clifford Odets chose Kass to direct and develop The Country Girl before it opened on Broadway.
- Kass played Frank Elgin, the male lead.
- Kass later directed four Broadway plays, including a short-lived revival of Odets' Night Music and Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, and he directed for television on Assignment: Manhunt and for films, including Time of the Heathen. Kass taught at Boston University in the 1950s, then at New York University in the 1960s and 1970s before becoming a private instructor.
- Students included Olympia Dukakis, Faye Dunaway, John Cazale, Maureen Stapleton and Val Kilmer.Kass was born in Brooklyn and was a lifelong resident.
- He died of heart failure in Manhattan.
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