O’Neal To Discuss 'Method' At Public Lecture Saturday
“Stanislavsky and The Method” will be the topic of the first public lecture to be given by Frederick O’Néal, Broadway, movie and television actor who is a visiting professor of theater for the fall term.
The lecture will be at 10 a,m, Saturday In Morris Library auditorium.
O’Neal was trained in the socalled “method” school of acting at the New Theater School in New York City.
The lecture is the first of three he will give for the public during the fail term, In addition, he will be teaching a graduate seminar in theater.
O’Neal also will be featured in the Southern Players first production of the year, “Marseilles,” an adaptation of the Pagnol triology of life on the French waterfront, It will open Friday, Oct 25, Mordecai Gorelik, research professor of theater, will direct.
The 52-year-old actor won fame for his roles In “Anna Lucasta”“Lost In The Stars” and other Broadway productions, He has appeared in a number of films, including one just finished in Dallas, Texas, which is tentatively called “The People vs, Ernie Jones.”
He also has a starring role In the television series “Car 54, Where Are You?”
When he leaves SIU, O’Neal will appear in a film tentatively called “The Hill,” wrItten by Howard Fast, make more segments of his television serIes, and go to Clark University in Atlanta where he will be a visiting professor in the Spring.