Carl Lerner

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Carl Lerner (born June 17, 1912 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † August 26, 1973 in New York City , New York ) was an American film editor , who in his almost 25-year career in over 20 cinema, television and documentary films -Productions was responsible for the film editing . Including classics of American cinema such as The Twelve Jurors , In the Middle of the Night , The Man in the Snakeskin , The Swimmer or Klute. In addition, he directed two films own director .

life and career

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1912, Carl Lerner graduated from Temple University with a degree in theater studies . He first began his acting career with repertoire firms in Philadelphia and New York. He then worked as a theater director before he married in 1941 and went to Hollywood with his wife Gerda . In 1949 he wrote and directed his first own short documentary with American Homes .

From 1950 on, Lerner earned his first spurs as a film editor at Columbia Studios . He worked on Jack Glenn's crime film Cry Murder , a small-scale cinema production with Carole Mathews and Jack Lord . In the same year, So young and so spoiled , a drama by director Bernard Vorhaus followed .

Since the mid-1950s, Lerner also worked as a freelance editor in charge of more elaborately produced film classics such as Sidney Lumet's psychodrama The Twelve Jurors from 1957 with Henry Fonda and the Tennessee Williams filming The Man in the Snakeskin from 1959 with Marlon Brando and Delbert Mann's love drama in the middle of the night .

During the 1960s he was an editor for a total of eight films, mostly dramas. Among other things for Wilde Buds by director Jack Garfein , for the boxer drama The Fist in the Face by Ralph Nelson , and for Frank Perry's drama The Swimmer with Burt Lancaster . In 1964 he directed the drama Black Like Me , based on a script he wrote himself about the struggle for equality between blacks and whites. It played James Whitmore , Sorrell Booke and Roscoe Lee Browne .

At the beginning of the 1970s he edited independent film productions for directors such as William Friedkin and Ján Kadár . For director Alan J. Pakula , he designed the montage of the Oscar-winning psychological thriller Klute with Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland . The Danish-Swedish co-production Den foerste kreds by director Aleksander Ford was Lerner's last work.

In addition to his career as an editor, Carl Lerner has taught at the City College of New York and the School of Visual Arts, among others . He died in New York City on August 26, 1973 at the age of 61.

Lerner was married to the historian Gerda Lerner since 1941 . The marriage lasted until his death. The two children Stephanie Lerner and Daniel Lerner come from the marriage.

Filmography (selection)

As a film editor

  • 1962: A butterfly blew up (All the Way Home)
  • 1962: The Fist in the Face (Requiem for a Heavyweight)
  • 1963: Before the Golden Rain Comes (Greenwich Village Story)
  • 1964: Marry me, crook! (The Confession)
  • 1966: A Man Called Adam
  • 1968: The float (The Swimmer)
  • 1970: Die Harten und die Zarten (The Boys in the Band)
  • 1970: The Angel Levine
  • 1971: Klute
  • 1972: Crawlspace (TV movie)
  • 1973: The foerste kreds

As a director and writer

  • 1949: American Homes (short documentary film)
  • 1964: Black Like Me

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Lerner in: American Cinema Editors, inc: ACE first decade anniversary book , American Cinema Editors, Inc, 1961, p. 127
  2. ^ Carl and Gerda Lerner in: The New York Times
  3. ^ Carl Lerner in: Women in World History , by Anne Commire, Gale, 2000, p. 406
personal data
SURNAME Lerner, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1973
Place of death New York City , New York