Oscar nominated producer Lawrence Turman died Saturday at the Motion Picture and Television Country Home and Hospital at age 96 after a stellar career not only as a producer of such seminal films a…
expert on the critical role of Producers in film. His book “So You Want to Be a Producer,” is a manual for how to succeed at the job and a tribute to the role. Larry of course impacted all of us at the School of Cinematic Arts as Chair of the Peter Stark Producing Program, which he ran from 1991 until he retired in 2021, transforming the program into a training ground for all disciplines of the industry, and helping define the role of today’s Creative Producer.
Turman’s film career began as an agent for the likes of Joan Fontaine and Alan Pakula at the Kurt Frings Agency in the late 50’s. He began his producing career in 1961 with Stuart Millar on The Young Doctors. Other early credits included 1963’sI Could Go On Singing.starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. Around the same time he spent $1000.00 to option Charles Webb’s novel,after reading an early rave review of it.
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