Irving Lerner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Irving Lerner

American film director

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1909

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 25-Dec-1976

Profession: cinematographer, journalist, film director, film editor, television actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Irving Lerner

  • Irving Lerner (7 March 1909, New York City - 25 December 1976, Los Angeles) was an American filmmaker. Before becoming a filmmaker, Lerner was a research editor for Columbia University's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, getting his start in film by making documentaries for the anthropology department.
  • In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Workers Film and Photo League, and later, Frontier Films.
  • He made films for the Rockefeller Foundation and other academic institutions, becoming a film editor and second-unit director involved with the emerging American documentary movement of the late 1930s.
  • Lerner produced two documentaries for the Office of War Information during WW II and after the war became the head of New York University's Educational Film Institute.
  • In 1948, Lerner and Joseph Strick shared directorial chores on a short documentary, Muscle Beach.
  • Lerner then turned to low-budget, quickly filmed features.
  • When not hastily making his own thrillers, Lerner worked as a technical advisor, a second-unit director, a co-editor and an editor. Lerner was cinematographer, director, or assistant director on both fiction and documentary films such as One Third of a Nation (1939), Valley Town (1940), The Land (1942) directed by Robert Flaherty, and Suicide Attack (1950).
  • Lerner was also producer of the OWI documentary Hymn of the Nations (1944), directed by Alexander Hammid, and featuring Arturo Toscanini.
  • He was co-director with Joseph Strick of the short documentary Muscle Beach (1948). Irving Lerner was also a director and film editor with directing credits such as Studs Lonigan (1960) and editing credits such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960) and Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977).
  • Lerner died during the cutting of New York, New York, and the film was dedicated to him.

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