The 81-year-old Oscar-nominated actor Michael Lerner passed away on Saturday night, who starred in movies like Elf, Godzilla, and X-Men: Days of Future Past. His nephew, American actor Sam Lerner, best known for his role in the sitcom The Goldbergs, who is located in New York, confirmed the death of the celebrity.
Sam, 30, paid homage to his well-known uncle on Sunday afternoon local time in an Instagram post. The actor’s death exact cause is unknown. Last night, a legend died. How intelligent and influential my uncle Michael was to me is difficult to express, Sam Lerner wrote.
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He continued, “His tales have always inspired me, and I fell in love with acting because of them. I will always feel special since he was my blood. He was the coolest, most self-assured, and most talented guy. Everyone who knew him was aware of his positive insanity.
“Goodbye Michael, enjoy your unlimited Cuban cigars, comfortable seats, and unending movie marathon,” Sam said, adding that he felt fortunate to have had such a long relationship with his uncle.
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In 1991, for his part in the movie Barton Fink, Lerner, who had a successful five-decade Hollywood career, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has played fewer prominent roles on the big screen in recent years; his most recent being in the Russian movie Pervyy Oskar from 2022.
For his role as Fulton Greenway, the tyrannical boss of Walter Hobbs (played by James Caan, an actor) in the 2003 film Elf, in which he co-starred with Will Ferrell, Lerner is well known. Also, he was part of a number of well-known movies from the 1980s and 1990s, such as Eight Men Out (1988), Amos & Andrew (1993), and No Escape (1994).
In the 1998 blockbuster Godzilla as well as the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past, Lerner played Senator Brickman and Mayor Ebert, respectively. In five episodes of Glee in 2013 and 2014, he played Funny Girl producer Sidney Greene. He also appeared on the big screen.
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