Lawrence Turman

Production

Lawrence Turman

Born — Died

1926-11-28 — 2023-07-01

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

35 titles

Lawrence Turman (November 28, 1926 – July 1, 2023) was an American film producer. He was best known for being a producer of The Graduate, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lawrence Turman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Thing poster
8.1

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

The Thing

1982

The Graduate poster
7.6

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

The Graduate

1967

Running Scared poster
6.1

Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.

Running Scared

1986

The River Wild poster
6.5

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.

The River Wild

1994

Short Circuit 2 poster
6.2

Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.

Short Circuit 2

1988

Short Circuit poster
6.7

After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.

Short Circuit

1986

The Getaway poster
5.8

An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.

The Getaway

1994

Caveman poster
6.7

Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of the tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar and Tala learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid dinosaurs.

Caveman

1981

The Mean Season poster
6.2

A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a deadly trap.

The Mean Season

1985

What's the Worst That Could Happen? poster
5.5

Thief Kevin Caffery attempts to rob from the home of rich businessman Max Fairbanks. But Fairbanks catches him and steals his cherished ring that his girlfriend gave him. Caffery is then bent on revenge and getting his ring back with the help of his partners.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?

2001

The Drowning Pool poster
6.3

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

The Drowning Pool

1975

The Best Man poster
7.3

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

The Best Man

1964

The Great White Hope poster
6.3

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

The Great White Hope

1970

I Could Go on Singing poster
6.1

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.

I Could Go on Singing

1963

Gleaming the Cube poster
6.0

An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.

Gleaming the Cube

1989

Full Moon in Blue Water poster
6.0

Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.

Full Moon in Blue Water

1988

First Love poster
4.1

A college soccer player falls hard for a campus beauty, who is the mistress of an older married attorney.

First Love

1977

The Flim-Flam Man poster
7.0

Mordecai Jones, a silver-tongued swindler and self-proclaimed “M.B.S., C.S., D.D.—Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Double-Dealing,” has made a career out of charming and cheating his way through life. Played with devilish charm by George C. Scott, Jones takes on a new protégé in Curley, a wide-eyed Army deserter eager for direction. Together, they crisscross the backroads of the rural South, pulling off a string of homespun cons while staying one step ahead of a relentless local sheriff. Along the way, Curley falls for Bonnie Lee Packard, a rebellious heiress who joins their misadventures. But as the scams grow riskier, Curley begins to wonder whether a life of flimflam is worth the price. With its colorful characters, offbeat humor, and standout performance by Scott, The Flim-Flam Man is a rollicking Southern caper about cons, conscience, and unlikely camaraderie.

The Flim-Flam Man

1967

Mass Appeal poster
6.0

A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor.

Mass Appeal

1984

Heroes poster
6.2

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.

Heroes

1977

Second Thoughts poster
4.0

Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious triangle develops as Amy gets pregnant by Will and both men vie for her affections.

Second Thoughts

1983

Second Thoughts poster
4.0

Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious triangle develops as Amy gets pregnant by Will and both men vie for her affections.

Second Thoughts

1983

Second Thoughts poster
4.0

Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious triangle develops as Amy gets pregnant by Will and both men vie for her affections.

Second Thoughts

1983

Walk Proud poster
5.4

Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano man in California comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out. Robby Benson plays a young gang member in Los Angeles who begins to question himself when Mendez meets and starts to fall for a White girl who encourages him to try and leave. Emilio, with great pride in his Native Mexican heritage, suffers a further identity crisis upon meeting his father, a European-American who got his Brown mother pregnant when she was just 16.

Walk Proud

1979

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker poster
4.2

A stockbroker is stuck in a dreary job and a marriage that's become a dull routine. To cope with the boredom and frustration, he resorts to voyeurism and extramarital love affairs.

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

1971

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker poster
4.2

A stockbroker is stuck in a dreary job and a marriage that's become a dull routine. To cope with the boredom and frustration, he resorts to voyeurism and extramarital love affairs.

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

1971

The Young Doctors poster
5.8

An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.

The Young Doctors

1961

Where Sweet Dreams Die poster
NR

As his restaurant crumbles and his wife battles cancer, an Italian American owner's fate collides with a driven Middle Eastern immigrant chasing the American Dream and his legacy.

Where Sweet Dreams Die

2026

Jesse poster
8.5

Based on the true story of a caring nurse whose work in Death Valley was challenged by the state.

Jesse

1988