Irvin Kershner

Irvin Kershner was an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing quirky, independent films early in his career, and then The Empire Strikes Back, the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, and RoboCop 2.

Irvin Kershner was born in Philadelphia in 1923. His artistic and cultural background was a mixture of music and art. The study of music was the most important activity of his early years. He attended Temple Universitys 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.

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