Brooklyn-born character actor Michael Lerner has died. He was 81.
The Associated PressMichael Lerner appears at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles on Dec. 5, 2013. Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including crime bosses, CEOs, politicians, protective fathers and the monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, died Saturday at age 81.
Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including movie mogul Jack Lipnick inand an angry publishing executive inHis nephew, actor Sam Lerner, announced his death in an Instagram post Sunday. Sam Lerner wrote that his uncle died Saturday but did not provide further details. Neither his nor Michael Lerner's representatives immediately responded to requests for further comment.
"He was the coolest, most confident, talented guy," Sam Lerner wrote. "Everyone that knows him knows how insane he was — in the best way ... we're all lucky we can continue to watch his work for the rest of time. RIP Michael, enjoy your unlimited Cuban cigars, comfy chairs and endless movie marathon."
Born in 1941 to Romanian-Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighbourhood, Michael Lerner began acting locally as a teen and into his days at Brooklyn College, where he got the chance to play Willie Loman in.
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