Born February 8, 1918· Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
† Died September 29, 1980
30Roles★ 6.9Average rating
Emerging from a Bronx childhood as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, he earned a B.A. at Brooklyn College, performed with the campus dramatic society and served in the Army during World War II before adopting the stage name Michael Strong in 1941. A charter member of the Actors Studio, he debuted on Broadway in 1937 and later joined Hal B. Wallis’s Paramount roster, though his first screen rol…