Lawrence Turman

Birth Name:

Lawrence Turman

Birth Place:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession

Producer, Director

Chairman of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California
Served on the Board of the Producers' Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
UCLA liberal arts graduate
After failed pitches for his TV script to a Paramount studio executive and an MGM producer, he became an agent after responding to an ad in "Variety," paving the way to becoming a producer four years later
Quote: "I think it's a producer's job to understand how to work with a writer, learn what a writer needs, expects, is responsible for, rather than the other way round, especially as it's the producer who has chosen and hired the writer․"
Prominent producer recognized for his work in 1967's "The Graduate," 1982's "The Thing," 1986's "Short Circuit," 1998's "American History X" and many other films
Voted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame

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