Life and career

Lerner was born in Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

 of Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n Jewish descent, the son of Blanche and George Lerner, who was a fisherman and antiques dealer. He was raised in Bensonhurst and Red Hook

Red Hook, Brooklyn

Red Hook is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 6. It is also the location where the transatlantic liner, the , docks in New York City.- History :...

. His brother, Ken Lerner

Ken Lerner

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:...

, is also an actor. After graduating from 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 London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Lerner began his acting career in the late 1960s at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. At the age of 24 he gave a bravura performance as Hieronymous the Miser in a KPFA radio production of Michel de Ghelderode’s Breugelesque play, Red Magic.

During the seventies, Lerner began making several guest appearances in television shows

Television program

A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...

 such as The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...

, The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple (TV series)

The Odd Couple is a television situation comedy broadcast from September 24, 1970 to July 4, 1975 on ABC. It starred Tony Randall as Felix Unger and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison. It was based upon the play of the same name, which was written by Neil Simon.Felix and Oscar are two divorced men....

and M*A*S*H. He appeared in three episodes of The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah...

. In 1974, he appeared in the teleplay The Missiles of October

The Missiles of October

The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First...

 as President

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

's press secretary

White House Press Secretary

The White House Press Secretary is a senior White House official whose primary responsibility is to act as spokesperson for the government administration....

 Pierre Salinger

Pierre Salinger

Pierre Emil George Salinger was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...

.

In 1970 Michael made his film debut in the Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...

 picture Alex in Wonderland

Alex in Wonderland

Alex in Wonderland is a 1970 feature-length film directed by Paul Mazursky, written with his partner Larry Tucker and starring Donald Sutherland and Ellen Burstyn. Sutherland plays Alex Morrison, a director who has made one feature and spends his time in Hollywood pondering what his next will be...

. He then went on to appear in supporting roles in various Hollywood movies such as Robert Redford

Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime...

's The Candidate

The Candidate (1972 film)

The Candidate is a 1972 American film starring Robert Redford. Its themes include how the political machine corrupts. There are many parallels between the then-recent 1970 California Senate election between John V. Tunney and George Murphy; however, Redford's character Bill McKay is a political...

, Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson , born Charles Dennis Buchinsky was an American actor, best-known for such films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Rider on the Rain, The Mechanic, and the popular Death Wish series...

's St. Ives

St. Ives (1976 film)

St. Ives is a 1976 American action film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson.- Plot summary :Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for his next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those...

and Jack Nicholson's The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain.The novel was quite successful and notorious upon publication, and is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century...

.
In 1991, after co-starring in the Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy

Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician....

 comedy Harlem Nights

Harlem Nights

Harlem Nights is a 1989 comedy-drama crime film starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. The film also featured Michael Lerner, Danny Aiello, Redd Foxx, Della Reese and Murphy's brother Charlie Murphy...

, Michael played film producer Jack Lipnick in the Coen Brothers

Coen Brothers

Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers...

' Barton Fink

Barton Fink

Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie, the insurance salesman who...

, a performance for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

.

Michael's recent projects include the Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

 comedy Elf

Elf (film)

Elf is a 2003 comedy film directed by Jon Favreau, written by David Berenbaum and starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, and Zooey Deschanel. It was released in the United States on November 7, 2003 and grossed over $220,400,000 worldwide.-Plot:A baby crawls into Santa Claus' sack while he is...

and Poster Boy, as well as appearing in television programs such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Entourage

Entourage (TV series)

Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...

.

British audiences know him best for his role in a 1990s TV ad for Heineken

Heineken

Heineken is a Dutch beer which has been brewed by Heineken International since 1873. It is available in a 4.6% alcohol variety in countries such as Ireland. It is the flagship product of the Heineken company and is made of purified water, malted barley, hops, and yeast. In 1886 H...

 lager

Lager

Lager is a type of beer made from malted barley that is brewed and stored at low temperatures. There are many types of lager; pale lager is the most widely-consumed and commercially available style of beer in the world; Pilsner, Bock, Dortmunder Export and Märzen are all styles of lager...

 saying, "You like the limo? It's yours".

In 2002 he appeared in London

London

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`s West End production of Up for Grabs

Up for Grabs (play)

Up For Grabs is a play by Australian playwright David Williamson.Set in the booming international art market from 1990, which was fuelled by the dot com boom, it involves scenes of an alternate sexual nature...

 with Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

. Michael also appeared on Radio Four in 2008 as a member of the cast of David Quantick

David Quantick

David Quantick is a freelance journalist, writer and critic who specialises in music and comedy.-Career history:...

's Radio Four's series One.

Filmography

• "The Brady Bunch
  The Brady Bunch
  The Brady Bunch is an American sitcom created by Sherwood Schwartz and starring Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, and Ann B. Davis. The series revolved around a large blended family...
  
  ", (1969) Johnny
• Alex in Wonderland
  Alex in Wonderland
  Alex in Wonderland is a 1970 feature-length film directed by Paul Mazursky, written with his partner Larry Tucker and starring Donald Sutherland and Ellen Burstyn. Sutherland plays Alex Morrison, a director who has made one feature and spends his time in Hollywood pondering what his next will be...
  
  , (1970) Leo
• The Candidate
  The Candidate (1972 film)
  The Candidate is a 1972 American film starring Robert Redford. Its themes include how the political machine corrupts. There are many parallels between the then-recent 1970 California Senate election between John V. Tunney and George Murphy; however, Redford's character Bill McKay is a political...
  
  , (1972) Corliss
• Firehouse, (1973 TV-movie) Ernie Bush
• Busting
  Busting
  Busting is a 1974 film directed by Peter Hyams, starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as Los Angeles police detectives.-Plot:The film is episodic, depicting the two detectives teaming on several different cases, with varying degrees of success...
  
  , (1974) Marvin
• Newman's Law
  Newman's Law
  Newman's Law is a 1974 film directed by Richard T. Heffron. It stars George Peppard and Roger Robinson.-Cast:*George Peppard as Vince Newman*Roger Robinson as Garry*Eugene Roche as Reardon*Gordon Pinsent as Jack Eastman*Abe Vigoda as John Dellanzia...
  
  , (1974) Frank Acker
• The Missiles of October
  The Missiles of October
  The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First...
  
  , (1974 TV-movie) Pierre Salinger
  Pierre Salinger
  Pierre Emil George Salinger was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...
  
  
• Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
  Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
  Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic is a 1975 made-for-TV film about a teenager who becomes an alcoholic.-Plot Summary:Sarah Travis is a 15 year old teenager going through a lot of stress and insecurity. Sarah comes from divorced parents, she lives with her mother and step-father and she...
  
  (1975) (TV film) Dr. Marvin Kittredge
• Hangup
  Hangup
  Hangup is a 1974 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars William Elliott and Patricia Quinn. This was the last of the 65 films directed by Hathaway.-Cast:*William Elliott as Ken*Cliff Potts as Lou*Marki Bey as Julie*Jerry Ayres as Jerry...
  
  , (1975) Richard
• Dark Victory
  Dark Victory
  Dark Victory is a 1939 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan...
  
  , (1976 TV-movie) Manny
• St. Ives
  St. Ives (1976 film)
  St. Ives is a 1976 American action film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson.- Plot summary :Abner Procane, top L.A. burglar, finds that somebody stole his plans for his next ambitious heist. He hires Raymond St. Ives, crime books writer, to negotiate the return of those...
  
  , (1976) Myron Green
• Scott Free, (1976) Santini
• The Other Side of Midnight
  The Other Side of Midnight
  The Other Side of Midnight is a novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon published in 1973. The book reached No.1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. It was made into a 1977 motion picture of the same name, directed by Charles Jarrott. The cast included Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan...
  
  , (1977) Barbet
• Killer on Board, (1977 TV-movie) Dr. Berglund
• Outlaw Blues
  Outlaw Blues
  Outlaw Blues is a 1977 film that stars Susan Saint James and Peter Fonda. It was directed by Richard T. Heffron and is rated PG in the USA. Many of the songs were sung by Fonda and three of songs from the film were written by Hoyt Axton.-Plot summary:...
  
  , (1977) Hatch
• A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story, (1978) Dr. Canlan
• Ruby and Oswald, (1978 TV-movie) Jack Ruby
• Goldengirl
  Goldengirl
  Goldengirl is a 1979 film directed by Joseph Sargent, loosely based on a science-fiction novel by Peter Lear, a pseudonym of Peter Lovesey. The screenplay was by John Kohn, with music by Bill Conti....
  
  , (1979) Sternberg
• The Baltimore Bullet
  The Baltimore Bullet
  The Baltimore Bullet is a 1980 film based on the adventures of two pool hustlers in the United States.It was directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starred James Coburn, Bruce Boxleitner and Omar Sharif. The Baltimore Bullet screenplay was written by legendary film and stage dancer John Brascia, from...
  
  , (1980) Paulie
• Coast to Coast
  Coast to Coast (1980 film)
  Coast to Coast is a 1980 comedy film starring Dyan Cannon and Robert Blake, directed by Joseph Sargent. The screenplay was written by Stanley Weiser. The original score was composed by Charles Bernstein. The film was shot in Stockton, California...
  
  , (1980) Dr. Frederick Froll
• Borderline
  Borderline (1980 film)
  Borderline is a 1980 American drama film directed by Jerrold Freedman and starring Charles Bronson, Ed Harris and Bruno Kirby.-Plot:The film follows a United States Border Patrol Agent in Charge, Jeb Maynard , who is forced to track down the killers of a young Mexican boy and his colleague and...
  
  , (1980) Henry Lydell
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
  The Postman Always Rings Twice
  The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain.The novel was quite successful and notorious upon publication, and is regarded as one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century...
  
  , (1981) Mr. Katz
• Threshold
  Threshold (1981 film)
  Threshold is a 1981 drama/science fiction film directed by Richard Pearce. It starred Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum. The film was nominated for eight Genie Awards in 1983 and won three of them. Sutherland also won best actor at the 1982 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his...
  
  , (1981) Henry de Vici
• National Lampoon's Class Reunion
  National Lampoon's Class Reunion
  National Lampoon's Class Reunion is a 1982 comedy film, directed by Michael Miller and written by John Hughes...
  
  , (1982) Dr. Robert Young
• Hill Street Blues
  Hill Street Blues
  Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ...
  
  , (1983-1985 TV series) Rollie Simone
• Strange Invaders
  Strange Invaders
  Strange Invaders is a spoof science-fiction film made in 1983, as a tribute to the 1950s films, but most notably The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It stars Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen and Diana Scarwid...
  
  , (1983) Willie Collings
• Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess, (1983 TV-movie) Henry Cohn
• Movers & Shakers
  Movers & Shakers
  Movers & Shakers is a 1985 comedy movie distributed by MGM. It stars Walter Matthau and was directed by William Asher.The story follows the head of production at a Hollywood studio who wants to make a movie to fulfill a promise made to a dying friend....
  
  , (1984) Arnie
• The Execution, (1985) Sidney Ferraro
• The Child is Mine, (1985 TV-movie) Abe Rosenberg
• That Secret Sunday, (1986) Mario Pinelli
• Anguish
  Anguish (film)
  Anguish is a 1987 Spanish produced horror film starring Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Angel Jove and Clara Pastor.-Plot:...
  
  , (1987) Bigas Luna
• Hands of a Stranger
  Hands of a Stranger
  - Plot summary :When a pianist's hands are destroyed he receives a double transplant from a murder victim. Much to the bewilderment of the pianist, these new hands decide to take control and gain vengeance for their past owner's death.- Cast :...
  
  , (1987 TV-movie) Capt. Cirrillo
• The King of Love
  The King of Love
  The King of Love is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales.It is Aarne-Thompson type 425A. Others of this type include The Black Bull of Norroway, The Brown Bear of Norway, The Daughter of the Skies, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Enchanted...
  
  , (1987) Nat Goldberg
• Any Man's Death, (1988) Herb Denner
• Vibes, (1988) Burt Wilder
• Eight Men Out
  Eight Men Out
  Eight Men Out is an American dramatic sports film, released in 1988 and based on Eliot Asinof 1963 book 8 Men Out. It was written and directed by John Sayles....
  
  , (1988) Arnold Rothstein
  Arnold Rothstein
  Arnold Rothstein , nicknamed "The Brain", was a New York businessman and gambler who became a famous kingpin of the Jewish mafia. Rothstein was also widely reputed to have been behind baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which the 1919 World Series was fixed...
  
  
• Harlem Nights
  Harlem Nights
  Harlem Nights is a 1989 comedy-drama crime film starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. The film also featured Michael Lerner, Danny Aiello, Redd Foxx, Della Reese and Murphy's brother Charlie Murphy...
  
  , (1989) Bugsy Calhoune
• Framed, (1990 TV-movie) Elliot Shane
• Maniac Cop 2
  Maniac Cop 2
  Maniac Cop 2 is a 1990 American action horror film directed by William Lustig and written by Larry Cohen. It is the sequel to Maniac Cop and stars Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner and Bruce Campbell.-Plot:...
  
  , (1990) Edward Doyle
• Barton Fink
  Barton Fink
  Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie, the insurance salesman who...
  
  , (1991) Jack Lipnick (Academy-Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
  Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
  
  )
• Omen IV: The Awakening
  Omen IV: The Awakening
  Omen IV: The Awakening is a 1991 made-for-television film that serves as the fourth and final addition to the original The Omen series, directed by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard. It was the final film of the original "Omen" series. This was intended to be the first of many televisual...
  
  , (1991 TV-movie) Earl Knight
• Newsies
  Newsies
  Newsies is a 1992 Disney musical film starring Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Bill Pullman. Robert Duvall and Ann-Margret also appeared in supporting roles. The movie is widely claimed to have gained a cult following after its initial failure at the box office...
  
  , (1992) Weasel
• The Comrades of Summer
  The Comrades of Summer
  The Comrades of Summer is a made-for-TV movie from 1992 featuring Joe Mantegna. It was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, written by Robert Rodat and aired on HBO.-Plot:...
  
  , (1992) George
• Amos & Andrew
  Amos & Andrew
  Amos & Andrew is a 1993 comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Samuel L. Jackson, filmed in and around Wilmington, North Carolina. It concerns wealthy African-American playwright Andrew Sterling's purchase of a summer home on a predominantly white island.-Plot:When Andrew Sterling Amos & Andrew is a...
  
  , (1993) Phil Gillman
• Blank Check
  Blank check
  A blank cheque , in the literal sense, is a cheque that has no numerical value written in, but is already signed...
  
  , (1994) Biderman
• Radioland Murders
  Radioland Murders
  Radioland Murders is a 1994 black comedy mystery film directed by Mel Smith and co-written/produced by George Lucas. Radioland Murders is set in the 1939 atmosphere of old-time radio and pays homage to the screwball comedy films of the 1930s...
  
  , (1994) Lieutenant Cross
• The Road to Wellville
  The Road to Wellville (film)
  The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy-drama film adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods as employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the start of the 20th Century...
  
  , (1994) Goodloe Bender
• No Escape
  No Escape
  No Escape, released in some territories as Escape from Absolom is a 1994 action/science fiction film shot in Queensland starring Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson and Kevin Dillon....
  
  , (1994) Warden
• Girl in the Cadillac
  Girl in the Cadillac
  Girl in the Cadillac is a crime drama film released in 1995. The film stars Erika Eleniak and William McNamara.-Film synopsis:A woman called Mandy runs away from her home. She meets Rick at a bus station who takes her with him to a rendezvouz with a pair of bank robbers...
  
  , (1995) Pal
• No Way Back, (1995) Frank Serlano
• A Pyromaniac's Love Story
  A Pyromaniac's Love Story
  A Pyromaniac's Love Story is a 1995 American romantic comedy film directed by Joshua Brand. The original screenplay is by Morgan Ward. The movie was filmed in Toronto .-Plot synopsis:...
  
  , (1995) Perry
• Clueless
  Clueless (TV series)
  Clueless is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name . The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season...
  
  , (1996-1997 TV-series) Mel Horowitz
• For Richer or Poorer
  For Richer or Poorer
  For Richer or Poorer is a 1997 comedy film starring Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley. It is rated PG-13 for some sexual innuendo and one use of strong language.-Plot :...
  
  , (1997) Phillip Kleinman
• Godzilla
  Godzilla (1998 film)
  Godzilla is a 1998 science fiction monster disaster film film co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich. It is a loose remake of the 1954 giant monster classic Godzilla. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The film relates a tale of a nuclear incident...
  
  , (1998) Mayor Ebert
• Safe Men
  Safe Men
  Safe Men is a 1998 film written and directed by John Hamburg. The crime-comedy starred Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn as a pair of aspiring lounge singers who are mistaken for ace safe crackers and get mixed up with a Jewish mobster, Big Fat Bernie Gayle and Big Fat's intern, Veal Chop .Safe Men was...
  
  , (1998) Big Fat Bernie Gayle
• Celebrity
  Celebrity (film)
  Celebrity is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. The screenplay focuses on the divergent paths a couple takes following their divorce.-Plot:...
  
  , (1998) Dr. Lupus
• Tale of the Mummy
  Tale of the Mummy
  Tale of the Mummy is a 1998 British-American horror film, directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Jason Scott Lee, Jack Davenport, Louise Lombard and Christopher Lee.-Plot:...
  
  , (1998) Professor Marcus
• The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...
  
  , (1999) Howard
• My Favorite Martian
  My Favorite Martian (film)
  My Favorite Martian is a 1999 science fiction comedy film starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name. It was directed by Donald Petrie and written by original-series creator John L....
  
  (1999) Mr. Channing
• Murder at the Cannes Film Festival
  Murder at the Cannes Film Festival
  Murder at the Cannes Film Festival is a 2000 television film directed by Harvey Frost, starring French Stewart and Karina Lombard....
  
  , (2000 TV-movie) Morrie Borelli
• Attention Shoppers, (2000) Khourosh
• Mockingbird Don't Sing
  Mockingbird Don't Sing
  Mockingbird Don't Sing is a 2001 American independent film based on the true story of Genie, a modern-day feral child. The film is told from the point of view of Dr. Susan Curtiss , a professor of linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles. Although the film is based on a true story, all...
  
  , (2001) Dr. Stan York
• 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
  101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
  101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure is a 2003 American direct-to-video animated film released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on January 21, 2003. The film is the sequel to the 1961 Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians...
  
  , (2002) Producer (voice only)
• Elf
  Elf (film)
  Elf is a 2003 comedy film directed by Jon Favreau, written by David Berenbaum and starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, and Zooey Deschanel. It was released in the United States on November 7, 2003 and grossed over $220,400,000 worldwide.-Plot:A baby crawls into Santa Claus' sack while he is...
  
  , (2003) Fulton
• Nobody Knows Anything!, (2003) Uncle Lou
• The Calcium Kid
  The Calcium Kid
  The Calcium Kid is a British mockumentary comedy film which was released in 2004. This film is presented in the style of a fictional documentary or a "Mockumentary". It stars Orlando Bloom as a milkman and amateur boxer. Billie Piper and Michael Peña are also featured...
  
  , (2004) Artie Cohen
• Poster Boy, (2004) Jack Kray
• When Do We Eat?
  When Do We Eat? (2006 film)
  When Do We Eat? is a 2006 American comedy film. It is rated R for drugs, sex, and suggestive content.-Plot:When Do We Eat? is the story of a dysfunctional Jewish family's Passover Seder. This is the family's first Seder in three years and the tension is high. Before the Seder, Zeke slips his...
  
  , (2005) Ira Stuckman
• Love and Other Disasters
  Love and Other Disasters
  Love and Other Disasters is a 2006 romantic comedy produced by Ruby Film, Europa Corp. and Skyline Films presented at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2008, it had its UK premiere in London as the gala screening for the BFI 22nd London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival...
  
  , (2005) Morty
• The Last Time
  The Last Time (film)
  The Last Time is a 2006 film starring Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser and Amber Valletta.-Plot:Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company. The corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competition is very intense, and the economy may be headed...
  
  , (2006) Leguzza
• A Dennis the Menace Christmas
  A Dennis the Menace Christmas
  A Dennis the Menace Christmas is a 2007 direct-to-video movie starring Maxwell Perry Cotton and Robert Wagner, based on the comic strip by Hank Ketcham. It is a sequel to Dennis the Menace and Dennis the Menace Strikes Again. The plot is based on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol...
  
  , (2007) Mr. Souse
• Entourage
  Entourage (TV series)
  Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
  
  , (2008) Guest Star
• A Serious Man
  A Serious Man
  A Serious Man is a 2009 dark comedy written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading to questions about his faith...
  
  , (2009) Solomon Schlutz
• Life During Wartime
  Life During Wartime (film)
  Life During Wartime is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 2009. It is a direct, but loose sequel to his 1998 film Happiness, with new actors playing the same characters, and imperfect continuity...
  
  , (2009) Harvey Wiener
• Atlas Shrugged
  Atlas Shrugged (film)
  Atlas Shrugged: Part I is a 2011 American film adaptation of part of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, intended as the first film of a trilogy encompassing the entire book. After various treatments and proposals floundered for nearly 40 years, investor John Aglialoro initiated production in...
  
  , (2011) Wesley Mouch

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