At times, movie actors and those involved in the movie industry may come upon hard and unforeseen situations that require them to reach out for help from others. The Actors Fund works to help the American actor and others working in the industry, if dire situations arise that they themselves cannot handle. At times, actors and people in the industry face times when they need help with housing, employment issues and even health problems. Essential needs like these can be met with the help of this organization.

Just recently, a writer’s strike affected most of the movie and television industry, leaving many people, including movie actors out of work. It also affected stunt men and women, those in movie costume design and many other individuals in different outlets of the movie industry. The Actors Fund attempted to help as many people as possible during the time that the writer’s strike was taking place. There were many jobs that were lost during this time that will never be made available again.

The Actors Fund was founded in 1882, by Albert Marshman Palmer. It was founded largely because Harrison Grey Fiske, who was the editor of the New York Dramatic Mirror and a former student of New York University, brought attention to the array of problems that movie actors and others in the profession were facing.

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