Ken Lerner is an American television, stage and film actor who is perhaps most famous for playing "Principal Flutie" in the first episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Early life

Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, who was a fisherman and antiques dealer. He is a graduate of Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...

 and the brother of fellow actor Michael Lerner

Michael Lerner (actor)

-Life and career:Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York of Romanian Jewish descent, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, who was a fisherman and antiques dealer. He was raised in Bensonhurst and Red Hook. His brother, Ken Lerner, is also an actor...

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Career

He is well known for playing whiny or unlucky characters, like the agent whom Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....

 stabs in the back with a pen in The Running Man

The Running Man (film)

The Running Man is a 1987 American action film loosely based on Stephen King's 1982 novel of the same name. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, and Richard Dawson....

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As of 2011, Lerner can be seen in an American nationally televised commercial for Wells Fargo Bank.

Filmography

• LA Noire - Walter Mensch
• Weeds (TV series)
  Weeds (TV series)
  Weeds is an American television comedy created by Jenji Kohan and produced by Tilted Productions in association with Lionsgate Television. The central character is Nancy Botwin , a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling marijuana to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a...
  
  - The Moyle
• Scrubs
  Scrubs (TV series)
  Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...
  
  - Charles James (2004)
• Friends
  Friends
  Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
  - Professor Spafford in The One with the Soap Opera Party (2003)
• The Story of Us
  The Story of Us
  The Story of Us is a 1999 American film directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer as a couple married for fifteen years....
  
  - Doctor (1999)
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Principal Flutie (1996)
• Unlawful Entry
  Unlawful Entry (film)
  Unlawful Entry is a 1992 American thriller film directed by Jonathan Kaplan starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta and Madeleine Stowe. Involving a couple who befriend a lonely policeman, only for him to develop a fixation on the wife .Ray Liotta was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in 1993 for his...
  
  - Roger Graham (1992)
• The Exorcist III
  The Exorcist III
  The Exorcist III is a 1990 American supernatural thriller written and directed by William Peter Blatty. It is the second sequel of The Exorcist series and a film adaptation of Blatty's novel, Legion . The film stars George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, Ed Flanders, and Nicol Williamson...
  
  - Dr. Freedman (1990)
• RoboCop 2
  RoboCop 2
  RoboCop 2 is a 1990 science fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bayer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. Set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan...
  
  - Delaney (1990)
• Hit List
  Hit List (film)
  Hit List is a 1989 action–thriller movie directed by William Lustig. The tagline for the movie was: They attacked the wrong woman... They kidnapped the wrong child... And they made the wrong man their target. The film was produced by Cinetel Films and Warner Bros...
  
  - Gravenstein (1989)
• Maniac Cop
  Maniac Cop
  Maniac Cop is a 1988 action/horror film directed by William Lustig and written by Larry Cohen. The film spawned two sequels, Maniac Cop 2 and Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence .-Synopsis:...
  
  - Mayor Killium (Scenes not present in USA release, added in Japanese version as a subplot) (1988)
• The Running Man
  The Running Man (film)
  The Running Man is a 1987 American action film loosely based on Stephen King's 1982 novel of the same name. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, and Richard Dawson....
  
  - Agent (1987)
• Irreconcilable Differences
  Irreconcilable differences
  The concept of irreconcilable differences provides a possible ground for divorce in a number of jurisdictions.In Australian family law with no-fault divorce it is the sole ground, adequate proof being that the estranged couple have been separated more than 12 months.In the United States it can be...
  
  - Doctor (1984)
• Gas Pump Girls
  Gas Pump Girls
  Gas Pump Girls is a 1979 American comedy. Directed by Joel Bender, it stars Kirsten Baker as June. Following their high school graduation, she and her friends take over the operation of June's uncle's gasoline station, which faces stiff competition from the new, bigger, more modern station that has...
  
  - Peewee (a member of The Vultures motorcycle gang) (1979)

External links

• Interview at Watcher's Web
• http://www.reelaccess.com/talent/kenlerner/
• http://www.kenlerner.com/