Lawrence Schiller

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Lawrence Schiller

Born December 28, 1936 (1936-12-28) (age 71)
Brooklyn, New York

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[edit] Biography

Lawrence Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, and grew up outside of San Diego, California. After attending Pepperdine College, he worked for Life Magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times, Time, Newsweek, Stern and the Saturday Evening Post as a photojournalist. He published his first book, LSD, in 1966. Since then he has published eleven books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. He collaborated with Albert Goldman on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce and with Norman Mailer on The Executioner's Song and Oswald's Tale. His own books that became national bestsellers and made the New York Times Bestseller list include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House, and Into the Mirror. He has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys. American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town and Into the Mirror were made into television mini-series for CBS. Mr. Schiller produced and directed each of the motion pictures.

In 2007, he exhibited his 60s photographs for the first time in New York city Marilyn Monroe and America in the 1960s and since then the exhibition has toured Beijing, China; Sofia, Bulgaria; Hong Kong; Salzburg, Austria; Berlin, Germany; Miami, Florida and London England.

In 2008, he was named Senior Advisor to the Norman Mailer Estate and is on the board of the Norman Mariler Writers Colony.

Mr. Schiller is a consultant to NBC news and has written for The New Yorker.

His previous motion pictures are:

  • Double Jeopardy (Producer/Director)
  • The Plot to Kill Hitler (Director)
  • Margaret Bourke-White (Producer/Director)
  • The Executioner's Song, 2 Emmy Awards, (Producer Director)
  • Peter the Great, 3 Emmy Awards, (Executive Producer/Director)
  • Murder: By Reason of Insanity (Producer)
  • Her Life As a Man (Producer)
  • The Patricia Neal Story, 1 Emmy Award, (Producer)
  • Child Bride of Short Creek (Co-Producer)
  • Marilyn, The Untold Story, 1 Emmy Award, (Producer/Co-Director)
  • The Winds of Kitty Hawk (Producer)
  • Hey, I'm Alive (Producer/Director)
  • The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (Producer)
  • The Man Who Skied Down Everest (USA Director)

Previous books as author or in collaboration with:

  • Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer
  • I Want to Tell You by O.J. Simpson
  • The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
  • Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce by Albert Goldman and Lawrence Schiller
  • LSD by Richard Albert, Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller.

[edit] Selected Awards and Recognitions

  • Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award Winner
  • The Christopher Award
  • Representative of the USA in the USA/USSR bilateral talks in Moscow and Washington, drafted and signed treaties with the Government of the USSR
  • Representative from the United States to the Moscow International Peace Forum
  • National Press Photographers Awards

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Television

  • Trace Evidence, The files of Dr. Henry Lee
    • Series for Court TV, 2004, 2005
    • Executive Producer/Director
  • American Tragedy (CBS, 2001)
    • Producer/Director
  • Double Jeopardy (CBS, 1993)
    • Producer/Director
  • The Plot to Kill Hitler (WARNER BROS./CBS, 1991)
    • Director
  • The Executioner's Song (NBC, 1983)
    • Producer/Director
    • Recipient of 2 Emmy Awards, Time Magazine, Best of the Year, Hollywood Reporter, Best of the Decade
  • Peter the Great (NBC, 1986)
    • Executive Producer/Co-Director
    • Recipient of 3 Emmy Awards, Writers Guild of America Award
  • Murder: By Reason of Insanity (CBS, 1985)
    • Producer
  • Her Life as a Man (NBC, 1986)
    • Producer
  • The Patricia Neal Story (CBS, 1982)
    • Producer
    • Recipient of 1 Emmy Award
  • Child Bride of Short Creek (NBC, 1982)
    • Co-Producer
  • Marilyn, The Untold Story (ABC, 1980)
    • Producer/Co-Director
    • Recipient of 1 Emmy Award
  • The Winds of Kitty Hawk (NBC, 1978)
    • Producer
  • Hey, I'm Alive (ABC, 1976)
    • Producer/Director

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