Biography
Michael Lerner (June 22, 1941 – April 8, 2023) was an American actor. He was best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance in Barton Fink, as well as appearing in the films Godzilla, Eight Men Out, and X-Men: Days of Future Paast.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sallywood
2024
as Ned Levitt
Inspired by movies of Oscar nominated actress Sally Kirkland, a young writer moves to Hollywood to pursue his dreams. In a chance meeting with Sally, ...

First Oscar
2022
as Louis Burt Mayer
The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameram...

Frankenstein's Monster's Monster, Frankenstein
2019
as Bobby Fox
When actor David Harbour finds lost footage of his father's disastrous televised stage play of a literary classic, he uncovers shocking family secrets...

Drive Me to Vegas and Mars
2018
as Milt the Man
Cowboy, a senior citizen ex-lawyer and gambler, is persuaded by his spunky seventeen year old neighbor, Rachel, to seek retribution for having been ch...

American Bred
2018
as Francis Adamo
In present day Detroit, where the influence of organized crime has diminished; one of the lasting crime syndicates begins to unravel when lies, myster...

The Shickles
2016
as Elroy Shickles
The Shickles is an edgy comedy which explores the life and loves of an eccentric Jewish family following the death of their dearly beloved grandparent...

Internet Famous
2016
as Joel Swanson
A group of Internet "sensations" compete for a tv show. Parody of the Internet.

Ashby
2015
as Entwhistle
When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That ne...
iGod
2015
as Self
People have been asking questions about God since the dawn of humankind and humanity's disagreements about the nature of God have often led to ethnic ...

X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
as Senator Brickman
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an e...

1000 to 1
2014
as Dr.
Cory Weissman is a college basketball player who suffers a devastating stroke. He perseveres to find new meaning in his life both on, and more importa...

2 Dead 2 Kill
2014
as Alphonse Dente
An ex-narc finds a journal written in code, leading to the whereabouts of a stash of stolen drugs.

Immigrant
2013
"Immigrant" is the coming of age story of Daanyik, a nine year-old Russian boy, whose family immigrates to the United States in the late nineteen-seve...

Brahmin Bulls
2013
as David
When Ashok makes a surprise visit to Los Angeles to visit his estranged son, the two begin a journey to mend their relationship until Sid discovers th...

Somebody Marry Me
2013
as Phil Rosenberg
David can inherit his father’s vast fortune on one condition: he has to get married. The problem is he only has mere hours to find his bride-to-be.

Mirror Mirror
2012
as Baron
After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a ...

Atlas Shrugged: Part I
2011
as Wesley Mouch
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by A...

Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010
as Leonard Proval
Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
Wax On, Fuck Off
2010
as Cy Rosenthal
Ralph Macchio, once a former teen idol, once on top the world in the 80s. Now he is a family man with a loving wife and the nicest man in Hollywood......

Life During Wartime
2010
as Harvey
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solond...

The Bannen Way
2010
as The Mensch

A Serious Man
2009
as Solomon Schlutz
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him....

Yonkers Joe
2008
as Stanley
Yonkers Joe tells the story of a dice hustler whose determination to make one last grab for a big score in Vegas is complicated by the reappearance of...

A Dennis the Menace Christmas
2007
as Mr. Souse
A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neig...

Slipstream
2007
as Big Mikey
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder my...

The Last Time
2006
as Leguzza
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 competit...

Love and Other Disasters
2006
as Marvin Berstein
Flighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her de...

Art School Confidential
2006
as Art Dealer
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really ...

When Do We Eat?
2006
as Ira Stuckman
An old school dad is as tough on his sons as his father is on him. On this night, however, one of the boys slips dad a dose of special, hallucinogenic...

Nobody Knows Anything!
2004
as Uncle Lou
Sarah thinks making a movie is easy. With the guidance of her screenwriter uncle, she goes on a wild journey into the world of Hollywood where she mee...

Poster Boy
2004
as Jack Kray
The gay son of a conservative senator who is also the poster boy for his father's re-election unknowingly befriends a gay activist bent on destroying ...

The Calcium Kid
2004
as Artie Cohen
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world s...
LArceny
2004
as Jack Dane
A young man from New Jersey comes to Los Angeles to visit his slightly crazy cousin and gets mistaken for a successful New York artist.

Elf
2003
as Fulton
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's help...

101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure
2003
as Producer (voice)
Being one of 101 takes its toll on Patch, who doesn't feel unique. When he's accidentally left behind on moving day, he meets his idol, Thunderbolt, w...

29 Palms
2002
as The Judge
When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag change...

The Omen Legacy
2001
as Self
The true stories that spawned the eerie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very name still conjures up thoughts of Satan. This do...

Mockingbird Don't Sing
2001
as Dr. Stan York
The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly...

Murder at the Cannes Film Festival
2000
as Morrie Borelli
A comedic murder mystery set in the middle of the Cannes Film Fest. Amidst the bumbling and drama, twists and turns emerge.

Attention Shoppers
2000
as Khourosh
An actor's promotional appearance at a new shopping centre is ruined when a popular rival shows up at a nearby store.

The Mod Squad
1999
as Howard
Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.

My Favorite Martian
1999
as Mr. Channing
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a P...

Celebrity
1998
as Dr. Lupus
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment j...

Safe Men
1998
as Big Fat Bernie Gayle
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the loca...

Tale of the Mummy
1998
as Professor Marcus
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evi...

Desperation Boulevard
1998
as Mannie Green
An ex-child star (Judy Tenuta) tries to reclaim her former fame.

Godzilla
1998
as Mayor Ebert
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, includin...

For Richer or Poorer
1997
as Phil Kleinman
Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when ...

The Beautician and the Beast
1997
as Jerry Miller
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.

Girl in the Cadillac
1995
as Pal
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.

No Way Back
1995
as Frank
When FBI Agent Zack Grant's partner is killed during a blown-up operation, he attempts to find the person responsible. Mafioso Frank Serlano believes ...

A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995
as Perry
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offered a bribe in exchange for taking the blame for the...

The Road to Wellville
1994
as Goodloe Bender
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business an...

Radioland Murders
1994
as Lieutenant Cross
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

No Escape
1994
as Warden
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle is...

Blank Check
1994
as Biderman
Bullied by his siblings and nagged by his parents, 11-year-old Preston is fed up with his family -- especially their frugality. But he gets his chance...

Amos & Andrew
1993
as Phil Gillman
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After ...

The Comrades of Summer
1992
as George
Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna) was manager of the Seattle Mariners until he had one too many shouting matches with the team's owner (Michael Lerner) and ...

Newsies
1992
as Weasel
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze ...

Barton Fink
1991
as Jack Lipnick
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Omen IV: The Awakening
1991
as Earl
Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys.

Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square
1991
as Self
Washed up actor Don Knotts shows up on the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, California in hopes of landing a role in the new Disney movie, ...

Made in Hollywood
1990
as Irving
A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches.

Maniac Cop 2
1990
as Edward Doyle
After being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, Officer Matt Cordell teams up with a vicious serial killer to track down tho...

Framed
1990
as Elliot Shane
A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.

Any Man's Death
1990
as Herb Denner
When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail fo...

Harlem Nights
1989
as Bugsy Calhoune
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of...

Eight Men Out
1988
as Arnold Rothstein
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching...

Vibes
1988
as Burt Wilder
Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafus...
The King of Love
1987
as Nat Goldberg
A publishing empire founder discovers that his rise to power was costly.

Hands of a Stranger
1987
as Captain Cirillo
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.

Anguish
1987
as John Pressman
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's c...

That Secret Sunday
1986
A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter s...

This Child Is Mine
1985
as Abe Rosenberg
An unwed teen is fighting a major court battle to recover her infant daughter from adoptive parents.

Movers & Shakers
1985
as Arnie
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment....

The Execution
1985
as Sidney Ferraro
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local...

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
1983
as Harry Cohn
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

Strange Invaders
1983
as Willie Collins
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.

Class Reunion
1982
as Dr. Robert Young
Lizzie Borden High's class of '72 are going through the motions at their tenth-year reunion, until deranged alum Walter Baylor, driven insane by a sad...

Threshold
1981
as Henry De Vici
Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Et...

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
as Mr. Katz
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Borderline
1980
as Henry Lydell
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of ...

Coast to Coast
1980
as Dr. Frederick Froll
Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the tria...

Gridlock
1980
as Marv
A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system ...

This Year's Blonde
1980
as Jack Warner
First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be Am...

The Baltimore Bullet
1980
as Paulie
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.

Goldengirl
1979
as Sternberg
A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in t...

Hart to Hart
1979
as Poker Player
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. The...

Diary of a Young Comic
1979
as Billy's agent
A time capsule of the L.A. comedy scene in the 1970s, "Diary of a Young Comic" casts Richard Lewis as a fictionalized version of himself - a young New...

Ruby and Oswald
1978
as Jack Ruby
A dramatic re-creation of the four-day span preceding and following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November, 1963, drawn from authenticated e...

Confessions of the D.A. Man
1978
as Mark Warren
A dangerous campus radical may go free if the District Attorney's office can't locate any witnesses for the prosecution.

A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
1978
as Dr. Canlan
One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig and...

Killer on Board
1977
as Dr. Berglund
The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.

Outlaw Blues
1977
as Hatch
An aspiring musician is released from prison to find that a song he had written while locked up has been stolen and made into a hit record by a countr...

The Other Side of Midnight
1977
as Barbet
When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marri...

Scott Free
1976
as Santini
A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece o...

St. Ives
1976
as Myron Green
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

Dark Victory
1976
as Manny
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1975
as Marvin Margulies
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when...

Starsky & Hutch
1975
as Fat Rolly
A young couple in a car exactly like Starsky's is killed by hitmen and word is out on the street that there's a contract out on Starsky and Hutch. Thi...

A Cry for Help
1975
as Phillip Conover
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit su...

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
1975
as Dr. Marvin Kittredge
Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At fi...

The Dream Makers
1975
as Mike
A college president becomes the president of a record company, and finds himself enmeshed in a payola scandal.

Reflections of Murder
1974
as Jerry Steele
The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the ...

Hangup
1974
as Fred Richards
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.

Newman's Law
1974
as Frank Archer
LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty ...

The Rockford Files
1974
as Dr. Ruben Seelman
The hit 1974 series pilot aired on NBC March 27, 1974, as a 90-minute made-for-television movie. In the pilot, Lindsay Wagner also starred and later m...

Busting
1974
as Marvin
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.

Firehouse
1973
as Ernie Bush
Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave ...

Magic Carpet
1972
as Michael Glassman
A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway who is being sought by the police.

The Candidate
1972
as Paul Corliss
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
1971
as Fats Detroit
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of sophisticated con men who force her, because of her ...

Marriage: Year One
1971
as Lemberg
A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.

Thief
1971
as Jack Cutter
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.

The Ski Bum
1971
as Rod
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention.

Alex in Wonderland
1970
as Leo
Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and s...

Three's a Crowd
1969
as Sid Bagby
An airline pilot tries to balance two wives he has in two separate cities.
Pigeon
N/A
as Unnamed man
Set in Remies, France in 1941 during World War II, a Jewish man tries to escape Nazi persecution and a chance encounter with a woman sitting next to h...