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Murray Lerner (May 8, 1927 – September 2, 2017) was an American documentary and experimental film director and producer.
Sep 5, 2017 · Murray Lerner, whose documentaries captured some of the world’s greatest folk and rock musicians in era-defining performances, died on Saturday at his home in Long Island City, Queens. He was 90....
Sep 6, 2017 · Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and preserved legendary music acts like Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen...
Murray Lerner was born on 8 May 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Festival (1967), From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1979) and Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who (2007). He was married to Judith Levine. He died on 2 September 2017 in New York, New York, USA.
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Nov 5, 2018 · Murray Lerner, documentarian of rock history. Through the success of his film about the Newport Folk Festival titled Festival, Lerner was brought on board to document the preparation and staging of the 1970 Isle of Wight rock festival.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and preserved legendary music acts like Jimi Hendrix and Leonard Cohen forever on film, has died, said his son, Noah. He was 90. Lerner died Sunday in New York City, his son said. The filmmaker earned an Oscar nomination in 1967 for "Festival," his examination of the Newport Folk Festival, and won the best documentary statuette in 1981 for "From Mao to ...
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Sep 5, 2017 · Murray Lerner, a seminal music documentary filmmaker of the ′60s and ′70s, has died at age 90 in New York City. Lerner won an Oscar for best documentary in 1981 for “From Mao to Mozart:...
