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Carl Lerner was an American director screenwriter, actor, and editor. He started his career as an actor with theater companies in New York. In 1950 he joined as editor in Columbia Studios and debuted his first film Cry Murder. He directed his first documentary film American Homes in 1949. He is known for his works in movies such as Twelve Angry Men (1957), The Fugitive Kind (1959) and Middle of the Night (1959). Mr. Lerner taught film technique at City College, New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and other institutions, and had written many articles on the subject. He died on August 26, 1973 at the age of 61 in New York, USA.
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1973
The First Circle
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1972
Crawlspace
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1971
Klute
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1970
The Angel Levine
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1970
The Boys in the Band
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1968
The Swimmer
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1968
Revolution
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1967
Brown Eye, Evil Eye
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1966
A Man Called Adam
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1964
Black Like Me
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1964
Quick, Let's Get Married
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1964
Smiles
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1963
All the Way Home
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1963
Greenwich Village Story
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1962
Requiem for a Heavyweight
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1962
No Exit
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1961
Something Wild
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1960
The Fugitive Kind
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1960
Rosie
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1959
Come Back, Africa
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1959
Middle of the Night
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1958
The Goddess
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1957
Uncle Vanya
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1957
12 Angry Men
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1957
On the Bowery
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1957
A Time for Freedom
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1956
Patterns
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1956
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
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1953
The Big Break
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1950
So Young, So Bad
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1950
Cry Murder
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