The late Lawrence Turman died at the age of 96 and was an American film producer. He was born to a Jewish family. His film career began as an agent for the likes of Joan Fontaine and Alan Pakula at the Kurt Frings Agency in the late 50s.
Turman began his producing career in 1961 with Stuart Millar on The Young Doctors. Other early credits included 1963’s Stolen Hours, starring Susan Hayward, and Judy Garland’s final feature film starring role in I Could Go On Singing. The next year he produced the acclaimed film version of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson.
Turman was a member of the Producers Guild Hall of Fame and was on the board of the Producers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He served as the director of The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California.
Turman published the book So You Wanted to be a Producer with Three Rivers Press in 2005.
Lawrence Turman’s top movies and TV shows
Turman produced films such as Pretty Poison (1968), The Great White Hope (1970), The Thing (1982), Mass Appeal (1984), Short Circuit (1986), The River Wild (1994), and American History X (1998). He also directed two films: The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971) and Second Thoughts (1983).
In 2014, he appeared as a guest critic on the fourth season of the web series On Cinema. In 2015, he appeared as himself in ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary Trojan War.
Lawrence Turman Awards and nominations
Turman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and The Graduate in 1967.
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