Ken Lerner
Ken Lerner | |
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Actor de cine, teatro y televisión estadounidense. | |
Nombre real | Kenneth Lerner |
Nacimiento | 27 de mayo de 1948. Brooklyn , Nueva York |
Ocupación | actor |
Año de debut | 1975 |
Kenneth Lerner. Es un actor de cine, teatro y televisión estadounidense. Es conocido por interpretar al director Flutie en los primeros episodios de la serie de televisión Buffy the Vampire Slayer , y por papeles anteriores en Happy Days , junto con numerosos papeles de estrella invitada en cine y televisión.
Biografía
Lerner nació el 27 de mayo de 1948 en Brooklyn, Nueva York , de ascendencia judía rumana . Es el menor de tres hijos de Blanche y George Lerner, que era pescador y anticuario.Su hermano era el actor Michael Lerner .
Lerner suele ser encasillado como personajes quejosos o desafortunados, incluido un agente que es apuñalado por la espalda con un bolígrafo por el personaje de Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ben Richards, en The Running Man . Uno de sus primeros papeles fue el de uno de los hermanos Malachi en la serie de televisión Happy Days en 1975-1976.
En 2011, Lerner apareció en un comercial televisado a nivel nacional estadounidense para Wells Fargo Bank . A finales de 2013, Lerner protagonizó un comercial de T-Mobile USA . En 2016, Lerner desempeñó un pequeño papel como un gerente comercial corrupto llamado Arthur en la serie de televisión de HBO Silicon Valley . Lerner desempeña un papel recurrente en la serie The Goldbergs , protagonizada por su hijo Sam Lerner .
Filmografía
- 1975-1983 Happy Days as Frankie / Rocco Malachi / Rocco Baruffi (10 episodes)
- 1977 Hot Tomorrows as Michael
- 1977 Grand Theft Auto as Eagle I
- 1979 Gas Pump Girls as 'Peewee', Member of The Vultures Motorcycle Gang
- 1980 Any Which Way You Can as Tony Paoli Jr.
- 1984 Irreconcilable Differences as Doctor
- 1985 Secret Admirer as Waiter
- 1985 Love on the Run as Aaron
- 1985 The A-Team (TV Series) as Cruise Crew Member
- 1986 Miracles as Stuart
- 1986 Jake Speed as Ken
- 1987 Project X as Finley
- 1987 The Running Man as Agent
- 1988 Maniac Cop as Mayor Killium (uncredited) (Scenes not present in USA release, added in Japanese version as a subplot)
- 1989 Hit List as Gravenstein
- 1989 Relentless as Arthur
- 1989 The Fabulous Baker Boys as Ray
- 1989 Immediate Family as Josh
- 1990 The Golden Girls as Doctor (Season 6, Episode 1: "Blanche Delivers")
- 1990 RoboCop 2 as Tom Delaney
- 1990 The Exorcist III as Dr. Freedman
- 1991 Fast Getaway as Tony Bush
- 1991 The Doctor as Pete
- 1991 Diary of a Hitman as Optometrist
- 1991 And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird as Matthew Carson, Home Movies
- 1992 Unlawful Entry as Roger Graham
- 1993 Mother's Boys as Jude's Analyst
- 1994 Rave Review as Saul Slobin
- 1994 Fast Getaway II as Tony Bush
- 1994 Relentless IV: Ashes to Ashes as Al Rosenberg
- 1995 For Better or Worse as Sergeant Moss
- 1995 Bodily Harm as Alex Shaw
- 1996 Dead Girl as Producer
- 1997 Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) as Principal Bob Flutie
- 1997 High Voltage as Justice of The Peace (uncredited)
- 1998 Senseless as Dean Barlow
- 1998 Godzilla as Teacher (uncredited)
- 1999 The Story of Us as Dr. Rifkin
- 2000 Boys Life 3 as Judge Levin (segment "Inside Out")
- 2001 The Woman Every Man Wants as Rosen
- 2001 They Crawl as Glen, The Coroner
- 2001 Mafioso: The Father, the Son as Sid Freeman
- 2003 National Security as Hank's Lawyer
- 2003 Friends as Professor Spafford (Season 9, Episode 20: "The One with the Soap Opera Party")
- 2003 Frankie and Johnny Are Married as Rob, Production Manager
- 2004 True Vinyl as Hotel Clerk
- 2005 Scrubs (TV Series) as Charles James
- 2005 Jesus, Mary and Joey as Saulley
- 2006 All In as Rosenbloom
- 2006 NCIS (TV Series, in Bloodbath) as Albert Hencheck (uncredited)
- 2006 Undisputed II: Last Man Standing as Phil Gold
- 2009 Desperate Housewives (TV Series) as Dr. Bernstein
- 2009 Two and a Half Men (TV Series) as Dr. Levine
- 2011 L.A. Noire (Video Game) as Walter Mensch (voice)
- 2011 The Mentalist (TV Series) as Judge Markland
- 2012 The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) as Dr. Schneider
- 2013 Anger Management (TV Series) as Judge
- 2016 Silicon Valley (TV Series) as Arthur
- 2017-2023 The Goldbergs (TV Series) as Lou Schwartz
- 2018 Bayou Caviar as Shlomo
- 2022 Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story as Joe Zilber