Joan See, Who Created A School For TV Acting, Dead At 83

When she found success in television commercials in the 1960s (Oxydol, Tide, Ivory Snow, Thomas’s English Muffins, American Express), she said that “I had to learn to act all over again for TV.” So she created a school to teach Sanford Meisner technique adapted for the requirements of the small screen – a school that grew, changed names twice, and is here today.