Method actors: Three generations of an American acting styleThis is a history of the style that has pervaded American acting for more than 50 years. The author appraises the fruits of Method training by the psychological truth and candour in the performances of such actors as Marlon Brando, Jason Robards, Rod Steiger and James Dean. He observes how the Method's "third generation" Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, and Jack Nicholson, among others brought a distinctive tone of hip disenchantment to films of the 1960s