Years active 1971 - present Name Lawrence Schiller | Role Film producer Education Pepperdine University | |
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Born December 28, 1936 (age 87) ( 1936-12-28 ) New York City, New York Occupation producer, director, screenwriter Movies Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, American Tragedy Spouse Kathy Schiller (m. 1997), Judith Schiller (m. 1960–1974), Stephanie Schiller (m. ?–1992) Children Suzanne Schiller, Marc Schiller, Anthony Schiller, Howard Schiller, Cameron Schiller Books American Tragedy: The Unce, Into the Mirror: The Life of Ro, Master Spy: The Life of Ro, Cape May Court House, Marilyn and Me Similar People Norman Mailer, Gary Gil, Marvin J Chomsky, JonBenet Ramsey, Tommy Lee Jones | ||
Photographer Lawrence Schiller Interviewed about Photographing Marilyn Monroe
Lawrence Julian Schiller (born December 28, 1936) is a noted American film producer, director and screenwriter.
Contents
- Photographer Lawrence Schiller Interviewed about Photographing Marilyn Monroe
- Charlie Rose Lawrence Schiller American Tragedy OJ Simpson Trial
- Career
- Filmography
- Books
- Television
- Selected awards and recognitions
- References
Charlie Rose - Lawrence Schiller : American Tragedy ( O.J. Simpson Trial
Career
Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, and grew up outside of San Diego, California. After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, 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 seventeen books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. Having edited and produced the 1967 Capitol Records audio documentary album Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?, he collaborated with Albert Goldman on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce in 1974, and also with Norman Mailer on the 1982 made-for-television film adaptation of The Executioner's Song as well as Oswald's Tale in 1995. 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, all of which Schiller produced and directed. In 2008, after the death of the writer Norman Mailer, he was named Senior Advisor to the Norman Mailer Estate and is the Managing Director of The Norman Mailer Center, in New York, NY, which he created with Norris Church Mailer. Schiller was a close friend of Mailer and collaborator on five of his works, and represents the Norman Mailer Licensing company. Schiller also serves on the Executive Board of the Norman Mailer Society.
Schiller served as a consultant to political campaigns and major corporations on such issues as crisis management, branding, public imaging and the use of social networking. Schiller has been an on air analyst to NBC news, a consultant to Taschen Publishing, Photographers Annie Leibovitz Studio and Steven Klein, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas and has written for The New Yorker, The Daily Beast and other publications.
In 2005, Schiller traveled to China and over two years built a collection of Chinese contemporary art, which numbers over 80 paintings and photographs. In 2007, he showed his own photographs for the first time in the USA at the exhibition Marilyn Monroe and America in the 1960s. It is for these photographs of Marilyn that Schiller is perhaps best known as a photographer. Schiller first shot Marilyn in May 1960 on the set of Let’s Make Love, and then again in 1962 when he was hired to shoot the star on the set of what would become the last film she would ever work on, the unfinished Something’s Got To Give. Marilyn & Me, Schiller's eleventh book, commemorates his experience photographing the Hollywood legend, complete with 131 color and black and white photographs.
Filmography
Books
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