List of City College of New York People - The Arts

The Arts

• Woody Allen Attended City College for brief period of time
• Maurice Ashley 1993 – First black International Chess Grandmaster.
• Jeff Barry - Singer/songwriter. With his wife, Ellie Greenwich, wrote, among many other hit songs, "Be My Baby," "Baby, I Love You", "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Then He Kissed Me," "Chapel of Love," "Leader of The Pack," and others. Barry also produced the Monkees' "I'm a Believer." He wrote the theme songs for "One Day At A Time," "The Jeffersons," and "Family Ties."
• Seymour Boardman – New York abstract expressionist
• Joshua Brand – Emmy Award-winning writer, director, and producer
• Paddy Chayevsky – Famed playwright and screenwriter, wrote Marty, The Hospital, and Altered States
• Shirley Clarke - Independent film maker
• Madeleine Cosman – Author of medieval cookbook
• Julie Dash – Filmmaker best known for the dreamy Daughters of the Dust
• Edward Eliscu - Songwriter, sreenwriter, actor. Eliscu's songs were in more than 40 films. Wrote lyrics for "Carioca" (nominated for Best Song Oscar in 1935), "Without a Song," etc. He wrote the screenplays for the films The Gay Divorcee, among others. Eliscu was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
• Victor Ganz - Collector of contemporary art in the 20th century
• Ira Gershwin 1918 – American lyricist, collaborator with, and brother of George Gershwin
• William Gibson (playwright) 1938 – Playwright – The Miracle Worker
• Marv Goldberg 1964 – Music historian in the field of rhythm & blues
• Hazelle Goodman 1986 – Stage, screen and TV actress
• Bill Graham Music Promoter
• Arthur Guiterman - Humorous poet
• Luis Guzmán – Actor
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg 1918 – American lyricist (Brother Can You Spare a Dime?, The Wizard of Oz, Finian's Rainbow)
• Caroline Hirsch – Founder of the comedy club Caroline's
• Judd Hirsch 1960 – Actor
• Antonio Jerkovic – Photographer
• Arthur Knight 1940 – Movie critic, historian, teacher and TV host
• Stanley Kubrick 1946 – Film Director.
• Ernest Lehman 1937 (BS) – Screenwriter
• Hal Linden - Actor, musician
• Frank Loesser - Songwriter (Tin Pan Alley, stage and films). collaborated with Burton Lane, Hoagy Carmichael, Alfred Newman, Victor Schertzinger, Jule Styne, Jimmy McHugh and Arthur Schwartz, among others. Wrote music and lyrics of "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" and the music of Guys and Dolls, Where’s Charley?, The Most Happy Fella (songs and libretto), How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, and the movie Hans Christian Andersen. He wrote many standards, including "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "On A Slow Boat To China." Loesser did not graduate from CCNY.
• Donald Madden – Stage, television, and screen actor
• David Margulies – Actor
• Jackie Mason – Comedian and Actor
• Jerry Masucci – Founder of Fania Records
• Andy Mineo - Rapper, singer, producer, director, actor and minister
• Sterling Morrison 1970 – Musician, co-founder of "The Velvet Underground"
• Zero Mostel 1935 – Actor
• Adrienne Rich – Feminist poet and essayist; taught at CCNY from 1968 to 1979
• Faith Ringgold – Artist well known for her painted story quilts
• Edward G. Robinson 1914 – Actor
• Mickey Rourke – Actor; never officially attended, but began auditing Sandra Seacat's acting class in 1975, making what is generally referred to as his stage debut at CCNY in May of that year, in the climactic final scene of Act One of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, directed by Seacat, featuring Rourke as the play's protagonist, Eddie Carbone, with the playwright in attendance.
• Chris Rush 1968 – Stand-up comedian
• Frank J. Sciame 1974– Architect/Contractor/Developer
• Richard Schiff 1983 – Emmy award winning actor and a star of The West Wing (played Toby Ziegler; see "Fictional" below)
• Sandra Seacat 1970s – Actor, director and acting coach, taught acting at City College
• Ben Shahn – Artist
• Dan Shor – Actor
• Gabourey Sidibe – Actress, majored in psychology
• Russell Simmons – Never finished City College, rap mogul
• Hrvoje Slovenc – Photographer
• Alfred Stieglitz 1884– Photographer
• Ed Summerlin – Tenor saxophonist, composer and arranger; directed CCNY's jazz program from 1971 to 1989
• Roy Turk - Songwriter. Member of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. Wrote lyrics of: "Mean To Me," "I'll Get By," "Walkin' My Baby Back Home," "I Don't Know Why (I Love You Like Do), " "Where The Blue of the Night Meets the Gold Of The Day," "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and many more standards.
• J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner – Forensic Psychologist/Television Personality
• Eli Wallach 1938 (MA) – Actor
• Dirk Weiler – Singer and actor
• Cornel Wilde 1935 – Actor
• Darko Lungulov 1996 – Film director Here & There-Tribeca Festival 2009-Best NY Narrative Award