Lawrence Turman, producer of films including Oscar winner “The Graduate,” and longtime chair of the Peter Stark Producing program at USC, died Saturday at the Motion Picture Home in Woo…
,” and longtime chair of the Peter Stark Producing program at USC, died Saturday at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills. He was 96.
Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Turman graduated from UCLA and broke into the industry after answering an ad into work at the Kurt Frings agency. He represented actors, and after getting a meeting with Alfred Hitchcock through their friend Ernest Lehman, he was able to book four of his agency’s clients in “North By Northwest.”
After finding Charles Webb’s book “The Graduate,” he worked to put together financing and casting, finding composers Simon and Garfunkel and the young director Mike Nichols. “The Graduate” was nominated for seven Oscars including best picture, winning best director for Nichols. “He was proud of telling the story how every studio in town turned the project down, twice,” his family recounted.
Turman continued producing into the 2000s with films such as “American History X,” and also directed “Second Thoughts” and “Marriage of a Young Stockbroker.”
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