Sanford Meisner was born in Brooklyn, was the eldest of four children. Sanford, James, Ruth and Robert were children of Herman Meisner, a furrier and Bert Knoepfler, Jewish immigrants who came to the U.S. from Hungary. [1] Two years later his younger brother James, who comes to long-term impact on the Meisner was born. In an attempt to improve the health of Sanford, one year later, the family took trips to the Catskills, where Jacob fed pasteurized milk. As a result, the child of bovine tuberculosis and died shortly thereafter. In an interview many years ...