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Lawrence Schiller Biography (1936-)

Full name, Lawrence Julian Schiller; born December 28, 1936, in New York, NY;son of Isidore (a merchant) and Jean (a department store buyer; maiden name,Liebowitz) Schiller; married Judith Holtzer, 1961 (some sources cite 1960; divorced, 1975 [some sources cite 1974]); married Stephanie Wolf, November 5,1977 (divorced); married Ludmilla Peresvetova (a translator), 1991 (marriageended); married Kathy Amerman, February 15, 1997; children: (first marriage)Suzanne, Marc, Howard; (second marriage) Anthony, Cameron. Addresses:Agent: International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills,CA 90211.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Director, producer, cinematographer, film editor, photographer, writer

Birth Details

December 28, 1936

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Work
• Series
• Executive producer, director, and cinematographer, Trace Evidence: TheCase Files of Dr. Henry Lee, Court TV, beginning 2004
• Miniseries
• Associate producer, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, ABC, 1977
• Producer and director, The Executioner's Song, NBC, 1982
• Executive producer and director (with Marvin J. Chomsky), Peter the Great, NBC, 1986
• Executive producer and director, American Tragedy, CBS, 2000
• Executive producer and director, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, CBS, 2000
• Executive producer and director, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, CBS, 2002
• Movies
• Producer and director (with L. M. Kit Carson), Hey, I'm Alive!, 1975
• Producer, The Winds of Kitty Hawk, 1978
• Producer and sequence director, Marilyn: The Untold Story, 1980
• Executive producer, An Act of Love: The Patricia Neal Story (alsoknown as The Patricia Neal Story), 1981
• Producer, Raid on Short Creek (also known as Child Bride of Short Creek), 1981
• Executive producer, Her Life as a Man, 1984
• Producer, Murder: By Reason of Insanity (also known as My SweetVictim), 1985
• Producer, director, and still photographer, Margaret Bourke-White(also known as Double Exposure and Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White), TNT, 1989
• Director, The Plot to Kill Hitler, CBS, 1990
• Producer and director, Double Jeopardy, Showtime, 1992
• Specials
• Producer and director, Come with Me--Lainie Kazan, syndicated, 1971
• Photographs, Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (documentary), American Movie Classics, 2001
• Television Appearances
• Miniseries
• The Executioner's Song, NBC, 1982
• Wedding photographer, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, CBS, 2002
• Specials
• Himself, People v. Simpson: Unfinished Business, Court TV, 1999
• Film Work
• Special still photographer, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969
• Director and cinematographer, The Lexington Experience, Corda, 1971
• Director and editor, The American Dreamer, EYR, 1971
• Material supplier, Lenny, United Artists, 1974
• Codirector, The Man Who Skied down Everest, 1975
• Coproducer, Quiet Days in Clichy, 1990
• Affiliated with other films.
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• The American Dreamer, EYR, 1971
• The Lexington Experience, Corda, 1971
• Nonfiction
• (Photographer and author of foreword) Richard Alpert and Sidney Cohen, LSD, New American Library, 1966
• (With Susan Atkins) Killing of Sharon Tate, Signet, 1970
• (With James Willwerth) American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense, Random House, 1996
• Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder, HarperCollins, 1999
• Cape May Court House, HarperCollins, 2002
• (With Norman Mailer) Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P.Hanssen, HarperCollins, 2002
• Affiliated as investigator, compiler, or interviewer with The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Report: The Endless Paradox, by Richard Warren Lewis, Delacorte, 1967; Marilyn, a Biography, by Norman Mailer, Grosset & Dunlap, 1973; The Faith of Graffiti, by Mailer, Praeger, 1974; Ladies and Gentlemen--Lenny Bruce!, by Albert Goldman, Random House, 1975; Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Photographs, by WilfridSheed, Crowell, 1975; Minamata: Words and Photographs, by W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith, 1976; The Executioner's Song, by Mailer, Little, Brown, 1979; I Want to Tell You: My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions (also known as I Want to Tell You), by O. J. Simpson, Little, Brown, 1995; Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, byMailer, Random House, 1995; and Boulder: JonBenet and the West, by Charles Brennan, HarperCollins, 2000; also affiliated with the book Sunshine, by Norma Klein. Contributor to the book series Masters of ContemporaryPhotography. Contributor to periodicals, including George and New Yorker.

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

• The television miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, broadcastby CBS in 2000, was based on Schiller's book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town:JonBenet and the City of Boulder. The television miniseries AmericanTragedy, broadcast by CBS in 2000, was based on Schiller's book American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Business Wire, October 17, 1997
• Playboy, February, 1997, p. 47
• Publishers Weekly, April 29, 2002, p. 58
• Time, May 6, 2002, p. 8

Electronic

• Lawrence Schiller Official Site, http://www.lawrenceschiller.com,March 15, 2005