actors handbook, and Slings and Arrows: Theater in My Life (Stein and Day, 1984), a memoir. Lewis remained active in theater in the 1980s and continued to teach a new generation of actors and directors through his Robert Lewis Theatre Workshop and at Rice University in 1981-82. He also served as the first artistic director at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts outside Washington, DC. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1991. In that same year, Kent State University established the annual Robert Lewis Lifetime Achievement medal in his honor. Lewis died of heart failure on November 23, 1997 in New York City, at the age of 88. Selected filmography Paris After Dark (1943) The Hidden Eye (1945) Bibliography Method — Or Madness?, 1958, Samuel French, Advice To The Players, 1980, Stein and Day, Slings And Arrows: Theater In My Life, 1984, Harper & Row, References External links Actors Studio history Extensive Robert Lewis Special Collections Archive at Kent State University 20th-century American male actors 1909 births 1997 deaths American acting coaches American acting theorists American film directors American male film actors American male stage actors American theatre directors American writers Drama teachers People from Brooklyn Rice University staff Yale University faculty