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Orville Lewis Duke (August 12, 1953 – September 10, 2004) was an American stage, television and film actor. He was a member of the renowned
Actors Studio The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights located on West 44th Street in Hell's Kitchen in New York City. The studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method actin ...
and was the interim Artistic Director of the
Negro Ensemble Company The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) is a New York City-based theater company and workshop established in 1967 by producer-actor Robert Hooks, playwright Douglas Turner Ward, and theater manager Gerald S. Krone, with funding from the Ford Foundatio ...
(NEC) from 2002 to 2004. In keeping with the tradition of the NEC, Duke helped young Black actors hone their skills by sharing his work experiences and teaching classes using the
method acting Method acting, known as the Method, is a range of rehearsal techniques, as formulated by a number of different theatre practitioners, that seeks to encourage sincere and expressive performances through identifying with, understanding, and expe ...
technique. Duke died in a car crash in New York City, on September 10, 2004. He was on his way home after performing in an off-Broadway play, when a car cut him off on the West Side Highway. His vehicle jumped a divider and struck an oncoming car.


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Negro Ensemble Company
1953 births 2004 deaths American male film actors Road incident deaths in New York City Male actors from Los Angeles 20th-century American male actors 20th-century African-American male actors 21st-century African-American male actors 21st-century American male actors {{US-screen-actor-1950s-stub