# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-lerner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:22:33.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-lerner"
name: "Carl Lerner"
slug: "carl-lerner"
description: "Carl Lerner was an American film editor, director and educator whose career bridged New York's post‑war documentary movement and Hollywood's studio and independent features, earning recognition for his editorial work on 12 Angry Men (1957) and for directing the civil‑rights drama Black Like Me (1964)."
tagline: "American film editor and film director (1912-1973)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1912-06-17"
deathDate: "1973-08-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.075486666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  38
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503594/"
    handle:    "nm0503594"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lerner"
    title: "Carl Lerner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lerner"
    title: "Carl Lerner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15448682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5262"
    title: "Carl Lerner"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations