Elf and Barton Fink actor Michael Lerner dies at 81
US actor Michael Lerner, who appeared in such films as Godzilla and Elf, and who earned an Oscar nomination for his role in Barton Fink, has died aged 81."We lost a legend last night. It's hard to put into words how brilliant my uncle Michael was, and how influential he was to me," he said."His stories always inspired me and made me fall in love with acting. He was the coolest, most confident, talented guy," Sam Lerner said.
Lerner's acting career stretched back to the late 1960s, when he was a pupil at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California. But it was his role as movie mogul Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, a period thriller by the Oscar-winning directors the Coen brothers, that thrust him into the higher echelons of Hollywood success.
His acting career took off after the nomination and he appeared in many films in the 1990s, including Newsies, Blank Check, Celebrity and Godzilla.
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