Cliff Osmond on Acting: ON ACTING: Four Basic Steps to Acting Successfully

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

ON ACTING: Four Basic Steps to Acting Successfully

To play any character successfully, their are four basic psychological steps the good actor must take: (1) understanding their own emotional humanity (as it related to the character), (2) acceptance of that humanity, (3) love/enjoyment of that humanity, and (4) eagerness/willingness to reveal that humanity in front of others. The rest is pure mechanics.

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: Name: Cliff Osmond; Location: Los Angeles, California, United States

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Cliff Osmond is a veteran actor, director, writer, and teacher based in Los Angeles. He is a long time member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscars), the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the Emmys), the Screen Actor's Guild, AFTRA, and the WGA.

Cliff has appeared in dozens of films and hundreds of episodic television shows and movies of the week. Most notably, Cliff appeared in four Billy Wilder films including starring roles in "Kiss Me Stupid" with Dean Martin and Kim Novak and "The Fortune Cookie" with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Lemmon and Matthau were Cliff's sponsors into the Motion Picture Academy. He also wrote and directed "The Penitent" starring Armand Assante and Raul Julia

Cliff teaches acting and scene study in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Dallas. For more information, please visit Cliff's website or feel free to email him at cliff@cliffosmond.com