Piven, Byrne

1929 - 2002  (72 years)

• Name	Piven, Byrne  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Born	24 Sep 1929	Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1930	Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA   [4]
  Residence	1935	Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA   [7]
  Residence	1 Apr 1940	Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA   [7]
  	Age: 10; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Son
  Died	18 Feb 2002	Evanston, Cook, Illinois, USA   [1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10]
  Obituary for Byrne Piven	23 Feb 2002	Los Angeles, California   [11]
  _FSFTID	LKST-L3X
  _FSLINK	https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=LKST-L3X
  Name	Bernard
  Buried	Memorial Park Cemetery and Crematorium, Skokie, Cook, Illinois, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I18391	Our Family | Descendents of Ze'ev Wolf Kitzes (I8926, I18, I1390)
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Piven, Samuel,   b. 15 Sep 1895, Volhyna, Russia ,   d. 26 Sep 1964, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA  (Age 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Balaban, Katie,   b. 17 Feb 1898, Russia ,   d. 16 Jun 1971, Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA  (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1920	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA   [12, 13, 14]
  Family ID	F4277	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Goldstein, Joyce Adrion Hiller
  Children	+ 1. Piven, Shira   2. Piven, Jeremy Samuel
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024
  Family ID	F6912	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Miami Herald, The (FL) - February 23, 2002 Deceased Name: DIRECTOR, ACTING TEACHER BYRNE PIVEN , FATHER OF JEREMY Byrne Piven , an actor, director and teacher who influenced generations of performers, including his son, TV and movie actor Jeremy Piven , has died. He was 72. Piven died of lung cancer in St. Francis Hospital of Evanston. During its 30 years, the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, has shaped the work of stage and film actors including John, Joan and Ann Cusack; Lili Taylor; Aidan Quinn; and the Pivens' two children, Shira and Jeremy. Jeremy Piven appeared in the TV series Ellen and later starred in another ABC series, Cupid. His father guest-starred on one episode of Cupid in 1998, playing a psychiatrist. The younger Piven also has appeared in a number of films, including Grosse Pointe Blank, Just Write and Black Hawk Down. Byrne Piven 's widow, Joyce Piven , said her husband had been playing in King Lear at their theater in Evanston last summer in a production directed by their daughter. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in November, she said. Born in Scranton, Pa., Piven first went to work as an actor in New York, but moved to Chicago in 1954. He and his wife married that year. They left Chicago the following year to work and study in New York, then returned to Chicago in 1967 and appeared in the short-lived Second City Repertory company. The couple later set up their acting workshop in Evanston. ''I came to Chicago to escape the show-biz scene in New York and to become a real legitimate actor,'' Piven once said. Miami Herald, The (FL) - February 23, 2002 Deceased Name: DIRECTOR, ACTING TEACHER BYRNE PIVEN , FATHER OF JEREMY Byrne Piven , an actor, director and teacher who influenced generations of performers, including his son, TV and movie actor Jeremy Piven , has died. He was 72. Piven died of lung cancer in St. Francis Hospital of Evanston. During its 30 years, the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, has shaped the work of stage and film actors including John, Joan and Ann Cusack; Lili Taylor; Aidan Quinn; and the Pivens' two children, Shira and Jeremy. Jeremy Piven appeared in the TV series Ellen and later starred in another ABC series, Cupid. His father guest-starred on one episode of Cupid in 1998, playing a psychiatrist. The younger Piven also has appeared in a number of films, including Grosse Pointe Blank, Just Write and Black Hawk Down. Byrne Piven 's widow, Joyce Piven , said her husband had been playing in King Lear at their theater in Evanston last summer in a production directed by their daughter. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in November, she said. Born in Scranton, Pa., Piven first went to work as an actor in New York, but moved to Chicago in 1954. He and his wife married that year. They left Chicago the following year to work and study in New York, then returned to Chicago in 1967 and appeared in the short-lived Second City Repertory company. The couple later set up their acting workshop in Evanston. ''I came to Chicago to escape the show-biz scene in New York and to become a real legitimate actor,'' Piven once said. Miami Herald, The (FL) - February 23, 2002 Deceased Name: DIRECTOR, ACTING TEACHER BYRNE PIVEN , FATHER OF JEREMY Byrne Piven , an actor, director and teacher who influenced generations of performers, including his son, TV and movie actor Jeremy Piven , has died. He was 72. Piven died of lung cancer in St. Francis Hospital of Evanston. During its 30 years, the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, a Chicago suburb, has shaped the work of stage and film actors including John, Joan and Ann Cusack; Lili Taylor; Aidan Quinn; and the Pivens' two children, Shira and Jeremy. Jeremy Piven appeared in the TV series Ellen and later starred in another ABC series, Cupid. His father guest-starred on one episode of Cupid in 1998, playing a psychiatrist. The younger Piven also has appeared in a number of films, including Grosse Pointe Blank, Just Write and Black Hawk Down. Byrne Piven 's widow, Joyce Piven , said her husband had been playing in King Lear at their theater in Evanston last summer in a production directed by their daughter. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in November, she said. Born in Scranton, Pa., Piven first went to work as an actor in New York, but moved to Chicago in 1954. He and his wife married that year. They left Chicago the following year to work and study in New York, then returned to Chicago in 1967 and appeared in the short-lived Second City Repertory company. The couple later set up their acting workshop in Evanston. ''I came to Chicago to escape the show-biz scene in New York and to become a real legitimate actor,'' Piven once said.

  
  

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