Meisner Royalty
In 60+ years of teaching Sandy personally taught roughly 8,000 actors, hundreds of which went off to star on Broadway and in Television and Film. Here is a "partial list" taken from "De Tree A We" by Jimmy Carville and Scott Trost. Names in bold were either nominated for or won an Academy Award.
Mason Adams
Eddie Albert
Richard Alfieri
William Allyn
Elizabeth Ashley
Scott Bakula
Patricia Berry
Barbara Baxley
Herbert Berghof
Robert Blake
Doris Blum
Pat Boone
Richard Boone
Stockton Briggle
James Broderick
James Caan
Dyan Cannon
Jimmy Carville
June Carter Cash
John Cassavetes
Jack Cassidy
Marge Champion
Frances Chaney
Oona O'Neill Chaplin
Duane Clark
Montgomery Clift
Dabney Coleman
Mary Wells Lawrence
Shari Lewis/"Lamb Chop"
Christopher Lloyd
Michael Locassio
Dennis Longwell
Jack Lord
Sidney Lumet
David Mamet
Karl Malden
Vivian Matalon
Dylan McDermott
John McEvilley
Christopher Lawford
DarrenMcGavin
Ali McGraw
Biff McGuire
Steve McQueen
Rosan Taneja
Adolph Green
Lorne Greene
Andre Gregory
Jennifer Grey
Joel Grey
Tammy Grimes
Annie Grindlay
George Grizzard
Gale Hansen
Marjorie Harris
Richard Conte
Tyne Daly
Kevin Dobson
James Doohan
Michael Douglas
Mary Doyle
Keir Dullea
Richard Dunn
Dominick Dunne
Robert Duvall
Rosemary Edelman
Timmy Everett
Sandy Faison
Peter Falk
Peggy Feury
Markus Flanagan
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Nina Foch
Nina Foneroff
Horton Foote
Bob Fosse
Meg Foster
Anthony Franciosa
John Frankenheimer
George Furth
Eva Gabor
John Garfield
Julie Garfield
Betty Garrett
Spencer Garrett
Jeff Goldblum
Akuyoe Graham
Farley Granger
Lee Grant
Kent Paul
Gregory Peck
Joan Pellet
Roberta Peters
John Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette
Amanda Plummer
Sydney Pollack
Anthony Ponzini
Tom Poston
Princess Lee Radziwill
Tony Randall
Sally Jesse Raphael
Doris Roberts
Tracey Roberts
Cliff Roberts
Wayne Rogers
Melissa Rosenberg
Barbara Rush
Mark Rydell
Freddy Sadoff
Mort Sahl
Robert Salvio
Gene Saks
Carol Saroyan
Arthur Seidelman
Marian Seldes
Suzanne Shepherd
Shirley Smith
Marlo Thomas
Kenneth Tobey
RipTorn
Tom Tryon
Manu Tupou
Brenda Vaccaro
Gloria Venderbilt
JoVan Fleet
Gwen Verdon
Jon Voight
Eli Wallach
Jessica Walters
Iris Whitney
Elizabeth Wilson
Marian Winters
Shelley Winters
Leigh Taylor-Young
Founding Members of the Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts (Spring 1995)
Sanford Meisner
Jimmy Carville
Martin Barter
Jill Gatsby
Kelly Nelson
Don Agnelli
Martin Newcott
Wylie Small
Danny Neiman
Kelli Maguire
Andrea Adams
Rosa Kessler
Christopher Mitchell
Kirk BR Woller
Casey Payden
Steven H. Vaughan
Chet Leonard
Amity Janow
Chad Tillner
TJ Paulino
Jimmy Petula
*Please email me, I'm missing few names here.