---
name: "Eric Lerner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eric-lerner"
fi1m_id: "eric-lerner"
imdb_id: "nm0503609"
tmdb_id: 18880
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-04T21:26:07.756079+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Eric Lerner

## Identity

Eric Lerner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eric-lerner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eric-lerner
- **IMDb ID:** nm0503609
- **TMDB ID:** 18880
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503609/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18880

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503609/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18880

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Bird on a Wire*](https://film.one/film/bird-on-a-wire.md) (44)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Eric Lerner is a screenwriter and producer. He wrote the story and screenplay for the 1990 film *Bird on a Wire*, on which he also served as co-producer. His other screen credits include the 1998 film *Kiss the Sky* and an episode of the 1982–1983 television series *Tales of the Gold Monkey*.

Lerner graduated from Harvard University in 1971. He began working as a screenwriter in 1983. He has also written books, including the 1976 memoir *Journey of Insight Meditation* and the 2018 memoir *Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen*.

*Sources: imdb.com, harvardmagazine.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bird on a Wire* (1990), Fi1m 44, Screenplay, Co-Producer, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/bird-on-a-wire.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Augustus: The First Emperor* (2003), Writer
- *Augustus: The First Emperor* (2003), series, Writer
- *Dracula* (2002), Teleplay
- *Kiss the Sky* (1998), Writer, Producer
- *Bird on a Wire* (1990), Screenplay, Story, Co-Producer — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/bird-on-a-wire.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/eric-lerner