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She has worked with directors such as Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen and Nicole Holofcener during her long career.
Alice Spivak, a veteran acting teacher and dialogue coach who has appeared in films such as Muppets take Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Please and Before the devil knows you’re dead, died on November 9, her family announced. She was 85 years old.
Spivak taught at the HB Studio of Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen for 15 years and in 2012 launched the New York-based OnTheRoad Repertory Company, for which she served as artistic director and served.
“While she loved cinema and tolerated television, and contributed a lot to each, theater has always been her greatest passion,” said the company OnTheRoad in a statement.
Professor for over 60 years, Brooklyn-born Spivak co-authored the 2007 book How to Rehearse When There is No Rehearsal: Performance and the Media.
She made her on-screen debut in Lilith (1964), starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg, and went on to work on many other notable films, including Times Square (1980), Garbo Talks (1984), Another woman (1988), How to be Louise (nineteen ninety), Privilege (nineteen ninety), Electric Moon (1992) and If Lucy Fell (1996).
On television, Spivak reappeared as a bailiff in 100 Center Street, the 2001-02 A&E series produced by Before the devil knows you’re dead and Garbo speaks director Sidney Lumet, and appeared in Sex and the City, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, The americans and The good cop. She continued to audition and perform until this spring, her family observed.
Spivak also served as a creative consultant / dialogue trainer for films, including Buck and the Preacher (1972) and The fan (1981).
Survivors include their children, Michael and William.