Irvin "Kersh" Kershner (born April 29, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Never Say Never Again and RoboCop 2.
Irvin Kershner's background is a mixture of music and art. The study of music (violin, viola, and composition) was the most important activity of his early years. He attended the Temple University - Tyler School of ...
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Irvin "Kersh" Kershner (born April 29, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Never Say Never Again and RoboCop 2.
Irvin Kershner's background is a mixture of music and art. The study of music (violin, viola, and composition) was the most important activity of his early years. He attended the Temple University - Tyler School of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Later, he went to New York and Provincetown to study with the famous painting teacher Hans Hofmann. He then moved to Los Angeles where he studied photography at the Art Center College of Design.
He began his film career at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema, teaching photography and taking cinema courses under Slavko Vorkapić, a montage artist and then dean of the School. Kershner then accepted a job as still photographer on a State Department film project in Iran under the Point Four Program,...
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