# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-lerner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:44:10.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-lerner"
name: "Michael Lerner"
slug: "michael-lerner"
description: "Michael Charles Lerner was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink (1991). Lerner also played Arnold Rothstein in Eight Men Out (1988), Bugsy Calhoune in Harlem Nights (1989), Phil Gillman in Amos & Andrew (1993), The Warden in No Escape (1994), Mel Horowitz on the television series Clueless, Jerry Miller in The Beautician and the Beast (1997), Mayor Ebert in Roland Emmerich's Godzilla (1998), Mr. Greenway in Elf (2003), and Senator Brickman in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)."
tagline: "American actor (1941–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Lerner_%22Ruby_and_Oswald%22_(1978_CBS_press_photo).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-06-22"
deathDate: "2023-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.768224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503627/"
    handle:    "nm0503627"
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    title: "Michael Lerner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Lerner"
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    title: "Michael Lerner"
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    title: "Лернер, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Michael Lerner"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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