Michael Lerner, Oscar-nominated actor for Barton Fink, dead at 81

Michael Lerner, the Brooklyn-born character actor who played a myriad of imposing figures in his 60 years in the business, including monologuing movie mogul Jack Lipnick in Barton Fink, the crooked club owner Bugsy Calhoun in Harlem Nights and an angry publishing executive in Elf, has died. He was 81.

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