Michael Lerner Scroll down for movie list. Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
Lerner's delicious Oscar-nominated performance as fictional movie mogul Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink (1991) was informed by considerable prior experience: He had portrayed real-life moguls Jack Warner and Harry Cohn, respectively, in the TV movies Moviola: This Year's Blonde (1980) and Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983). A lateblooming actor with extensive stage experience, the pudgy Lerner has also appeared in Alex in Wonderland (1970), The Candidate (1972), Outlaw Blues (1977), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Eight Men Out (1988, as notorious gambler Arnold Rothstein), Harlem Nights (1989), Newsies (1992), Amos & Andrew (1993), and Blank Check (1994). He plays the kinds of characters who always seem to be sweating. |  |