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Irvin Kershner: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Isadore Kershner
Born April 29, 1923 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died November 27, 2010 (aged 87) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works “A Fine Madness” • “Eyes of Laura Mars” • “Loving” • “Never Say Never Again” • “RoboCop 2” • “S*P*Y*S” • “The Empire Strikes Back” • “The Flim-Flam Man” • “The Luck of Ginger Coffey” • “The Return of a Man Called Horse” • “Up the Sandbox”

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Irvin Kershner gestures while directing Anthony Daniels, dressed as the android C-3PO, on the set of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.
Faye Dunaway aims a gun while Tommy Lee Jones points forward beside her in a tense scene from the film Eyes of Laura Mars.
Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca, Anthony Daniels as C-3PO, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in the Millennium Falcon cockpit in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
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