Irvin Kershner
Irvin Kershner (born April 29, 1923 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † November 27, 2010 in Los Angeles ) was an American film director and occasional actor.
Life
Kershner's youth were shaped by music and art. In his early years music was his main activity, he played the violin , viola and composed. He attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and later went to New York and Princetown to study with the painter Hans Hofmann . He then went to Los Angeles, where he studied photography at the Art Center College of Design.
Kershner began his film career at the School of Cinema at the University of Southern California , where he taught photography and took film courses under Slavko Vorkapić . Kershner got a job as a still photographer on a Foreign Ministry film project in Iran , which eventually led him to work as a director and cameraman for documentaries in Iran, Greece and Turkey in collaboration with the United States Information Agency .
When Kershner returned to the United States, he and Paul Coates developed the documentary series Confidential File for American television. Kershner worked on this series as a screenwriter , director, cameraman and film editor . He later developed and directed the television series The Rebel , as well as the pilot films for Peyton Place , Cain's One Hundred and Philip Marlowe .
Kershner directed The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 . He was also the director of the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never (1983), starring Sean Connery, and was responsible for Robocop 2 . In the film The Last Temptation of Christ he took on a supporting role for the first time .
For his work on The Empire Strikes Back , Kershner received the Saturn Award in the category of best director in 1981. In 1981 he received the British Fantasy Award for The Empire Strikes Back .
Filmography (selection)
- 1958: Stakeout on Dope Street
- 1958: The Young Captives
- 1960: ... throw the first stone (The Hoodlum Priest)
- 1964: The Luck of Ginger Coffey
- 1966: Samson can't be beaten (A Fine Madness)
- 1967: The great Mr. Flim-Flam (The Flim-Flam Man)
- 1970: Loving
- 1972: Sandbox (Up the Sandbox)
- 1974: The Chaos Duo (S * P * Y * S)
- 1976: The Man They Called Horse - Part 2 (The Return of a Man Called Horse)
- 1976: ... who know no mercy (Raid on Entebbe)
- 1978: Eyes of Laura Mars (The Eyes of Laura Mars)
- 1980: The Empire Strikes Back (The Empire Strikes Back)
- 1983: Never Say Never (Never Say Never Again)
- 1989: Traveling Man
- 1990: Robocop 2
- 1993: SeaQuest DSV - To be or not to be (TV movie)
literature
- 1980: Alan Arnold: A Journal of the Making of "The Empire Strikes Back" (contributor). ISBN 0-345-29075-5 .
- 1997: Laurent Bouzereau: Star Wars. The Annotated Screenplays. (Contributor) ISBN 0-345-40981-7 .
Web links
- Irvin Kershner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Irvin Kershner in the nndb (English)
- Obituary in The New York Times (English)
- Irvin Kershner in the German dubbing file
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kershner, Irvin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laux, Mathis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 2010 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |