Lawrence Schiller
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Lawrence Julian Schiller (born December 28, 1936) is a noted American film producer, director and screenwriter.
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 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. Schiller produced and directed each of the motion pictures listed above.
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 exhibited his 1960s 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, 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 Writers Colony, in Provincetown, MA, which he created with Norris Mailer. Schiller was a close friend of Mailer and collaborator on five of his works. He also serves as director of the Norman Mailer Licensing company. He also serves 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 is a on air analyst to NBC
news, consultant to Annie Liebovitz Studio, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas and has written for The New Yorker
, The Daily Beast
and other publications.
Career
Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, and grew up outside of San Diego, California. After attending Pepperdine CollegePepperdine University
Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for Seaver College, the School of...
in Los Angeles, he worked for Life
Life (magazine)
Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
, Stern
Stern (magazine)
Stern is a weekly news magazine published in Germany. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. In the first quarter of 2006, its print run was 1.019 million copies and it reached 7.84 million readers according to...
, and The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is a bimonthly American magazine. It was published weekly under this title from 1897 until 1969, and quarterly and then bimonthly from 1971.-History:...
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
Albert Goldman
Albert Harry Goldman was an American professor and author.Born in Dormont, Pennsylvania, Albert Goldman wrote about the culture and personalities of the American music industry both in books and as a contributor to magazines...
on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce
Leonard Alfred Schneider , better known by the stage name Lenny Bruce, was a Jewish-American comedian, social critic and satirist...
and with Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...
on The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song is a 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder. The title of the book may be a play on "The Lord High Executioner's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado...
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. Schiller produced and directed each of the motion pictures listed above.
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 exhibited his 1960s 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, 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 Writers Colony, in Provincetown, MA, which he created with Norris Mailer. Schiller was a close friend of Mailer and collaborator on five of his works. He also serves as director of the Norman Mailer Licensing company. He also serves 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 is a on air analyst to NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
news, consultant to Annie Liebovitz Studio, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas and has written for The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast is an American news reporting and opinion website founded and published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as the short-lived Talk Magazine. The Daily Beast was launched on October 6, 2008, and is owned by IAC...
and other publications.
Filmography
- Master Spy (Producer/Director)
- American Tragedy (Producer/Director)
- Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (Producer/Director)
- 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)
Books
Previous books as author or in collaboration with:- Into the Mirror by Lawrence Schiller
- Perfect Murder, Perfect Town by Lawrence Schiller
- Cape May Court House by Lawrence Schiller
- American Tragedy by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth
- 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 Alpert, Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller
- Mariyn: A Biography by Norman Mailer and the world's foremost photographers.
Television
- Trace Evidence, The files of Dr. Henry Lee (Court TV, 2004, 2005) Executive Producer/Director
- Master Spy: The Robert HanssenRobert HanssenRobert Philip Hanssen is a former American FBI agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001...
Story (CBS, 2002) Producer/Director - American Tragedy (CBS, 2001) Producer/Director
- Perfect Murder, Perfect TownPerfect Murder, Perfect TownPerfect Murder, Perfect Town is a 2000 American television miniseries directed by Lawrence Schiller. The teleplay by Tom Topor is based on Schiller's book of the same title....
(CBS, 2000) Producer/Director - Double Jeopardy (CBS, 1993) Producer/Director
- The Plot to Kill Hitler (Warner Bros./CBS, 1991) Director
- Margaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-WhiteMargaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet Industry, the first female war correspondent and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her...
(TNT, 1989) Producer/Director - The Executioner's SongThe Executioner's SongThe Executioner's Song is a 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder. The title of the book may be a play on "The Lord High Executioner's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado...
(NBC, 1983) Producer/Director- Recipient of 2 Emmy Awards, Time Magazine, Best of the Year, Hollywood Reporter, Best of the Decade
- Peter the GreatPeter the Great (TV Series)Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian leader Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries....
(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 NealPatricia NealPatricia Neal was an American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still , wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's , middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud , for which she won...
Story (CBS, 1982) Producer- Recipient of 1 Emmy Award
- Child Bride of Short Creek (NBC, 1982) Co-Producer
- MarilynMarilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
, The Untold Story (ABC, 1980) Producer/Co-Director- Recipient of 1 Emmy Award
- The Winds of Kitty Hawk (NBC, 1978) Producer
- The Trial Of Lee Harvey OswaldLee Harvey OswaldLee Harvey Oswald was, according to four government investigations,These were investigations by: the Federal Bureau of Investigation , the Warren Commission , the House Select Committee on Assassinations , and the Dallas Police Department. the sniper who assassinated John F...
(ABC, 1976) Producer - Hey, I'm AliveHey, I'm AliveHey, I'm Alive is a 1975 American television movie. It premiered on ABC on November 7, 1975.The film is based on the true story of two plane crash survivors who spent 49 days of winter in the Yukon before they were rescued....
(ABC, 1975) Producer/Director
Selected awards and recognitions
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy AwardEmmy AwardAn Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
Winner for Peter the Great - 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