Lawrence Turman

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1926-11-28

Deathday 2023-07-01 (96 years old)

Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, USA

Lawrence Turman

Biography

Lawrence Turman (November 28, 1926 – July 1, 2023) was an American film producer. He was best known for serving as a producer of The Graduate (1967, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.) Turman was born in Los Angeles, California on November 28, 1926, into a Jewish family. His father was Jacob Turman and his mother Esther Gldman Turman. Turman served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Turman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of The Graduate (1967). He also produced other films such as Pretty Poison (1968), The Great White Hope (1970), The Thing (1982),[6] Mass Appeal (1984), Short Circuit (1986), The River Wild (1994), and American History X (1998).

Known For

Producer

2001
Kingdom Come

as Executive Producer

1998
American History X

as Executive Producer

1998
The Long Way Home

as Executive Producer

1996
Pretty Poison

as Executive Producer

1994
The Getaway

as Producer

1994
The River Wild

as Producer

1989
Gleaming the Cube

as Producer

1988
1988
Short Circuit 2

as Producer

1986
Short Circuit

as Producer

1986
Running Scared

as Producer

1986
News at Eleven

as Executive Producer

1985
The Mean Season

as Producer

1984
Mass Appeal

as Producer

1983
Second Thoughts

as Producer

1982
The Thing

as Producer

1982
Between Two Brothers

as Executive Producer

1981
Caveman

as Producer

1979
Walk Proud

as Producer

1977
First Love

as Producer

1977
Heroes

as Producer

1975
The Nickel Ride

as Executive Producer

1975
The Drowning Pool

as Producer

1974
Get Christie Love!

as Executive Producer

1974
Unwed Father

as Executive Producer

1973
She Lives!

as Executive Producer

1970
1968
Pretty Poison

as Executive Producer

1967
The Flim-Flam Man

as Producer

1967
The Graduate

as Producer

1964
The Best Man

as Producer

1963
1963
Stolen Hours

as Executive Producer

1961
The Young Doctors

as Producer

Actor

2015
Trojan War

as Self

2012
On Cinema

as Lawrence Turman

Director

Crew

1974
Savages

as Creative Consultant

1964
The Best Man

as Presenter

Writer

1983
Second Thoughts

as Writer