Irving Lerner

Irving Lerner was born on Mar 07, 1909 in USA. Irving Lerner's big-screen debut came with The Marines Come Thru directed by Louis J. Gasnier in 1938. Irving Lerner is known for Spartacus directed by Stanley Kubrick, Kirk Douglas stars as Spartacus and Laurence Olivier as Crassus. The upcoming new movie Irving Lerner plays is The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' which will be released on Jul 24, 2015.

Editor/director Irving Lerner got his start in the film business at Columbia University, where he was a research editor on the school's Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and began making documentaries for the school's anthropology department in the early 1930s. He produced documentaries for the Office of War Information during World War II, and after the war he became the head of New York University's Educational Film institute.In 1948 Lerner and Joseph Strick co-directed a short documentary, Muscle Beach (1948). After that Lerner got into low-budget feature films, directing the gritty little crime drama C-Man (1949) and the somewhat bizarre Mister Universe (1951), about a bodybuilder who gets involved with con artists and professional wrestling. He also worked as a cinematographer, editor and assistant director on others' films, and served as director and cinematographer on several documentaries. He was the editor on Martin Scorsese's 1977 film New York, New York (1977), but died before finishing the cutting. Scorsese dedicated the film to him.