Desc: Acting: Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio: Directed by Herbert Kline. With Lee Strasberg, Ellen Burstyn, Dick Cavett, Jane Fonda. A documentary film about the world-famous American actors' school and showcase, the Actors Studio in New York, concentrating upon the life and work of Lee Strasberg. This celebrated teacher and actor has been the controversial head of the Actors Studio since its inception in the postwar period of the 1940s, and the style of acting he formulated, known popularly as "Method Acting," has produced some of the greatest theater and cinema talents of our time.