Schiller, Lawrence 1936–

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SCHILLER, Lawrence 1936–

PERSONAL

Full name, Lawrence Julian Schiller; born December 28, 1936, in New York, NY; son of Isidore (a merchant) and Jean (a department store buyer; maiden name, Liebowitz) Schiller; married Judith Holtzer, 1961 (some sources cite 1960; divorced, 1975 [some sources cite 1974]); married Stephanie Wolf, November 5, 1977 (divorced); married Ludmilla Peresvetova (a translator), 1991 (marriage ended); married Kathy Amerman, February 15, 1997; children: (first marriage) Suzanne, Marc, Howard; (second marriage) Anthony, Cameron. Education: Pepperdine College, B.A.; also trained as a photojournalist. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Judaism.

Addresses:

Agent—International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Career:

Director, producer, cinematographer, film editor, photographer, and writer. Photojournalist with Sport, 1956–60, Sports Illustrated, 1956–64, Life, 1958–70, Saturday Evening Post, 1958–70, London Sun Times, 1960–69, Paris Match, 1960–69, Stern, 1960–69, and Look, 1963–65; creator of special photographic montages and other sequences for use in films and television productions; consultant to NBC News. Moscow International Forum on Peace, American delegate, 1987; American–Soviet Film Initiative, chair of the board of directors, 1988; U.S.S.R.–U.S.A. Bi–Lateral Talks, member, 1988.

Member:

Directors Guild of America, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Screen Actors Guild, National Press Photographers Association, California Press Photographers Association, Broadcast Music Inc., American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Awards, Honors:

National Press Photographers Association Award, 1975; Emmy Award, c. 1983, for The Executioner's Song; Emmy Award (with others), outstanding miniseries, 1986, for Peter the Great; Christopher Award; award from William R. Hearst Scholastic Sports Association; Graflex Award; California Press Photographers Award; other awards, including awards for photojournalism.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Executive producer, director, and cinematographer, Trace Evidence: The Case Files of Dr. Henry Lee, Court TV, beginning 2004.

Television Work; Miniseries:

Associate producer, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, ABC, 1977.

Producer and director, The Executioner's Song, NBC, 1982.

Executive producer and director (with Marvin J. Chomsky), Peter the Great, NBC, 1986.

Executive producer and director, American Tragedy, CBS, 2000.

Executive producer and director, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, CBS, 2000.

Executive producer and director, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, CBS, 2002.

Television Work; Movies:

Producer and director (with L. M. Kit Carson), Hey, I'm Alive!, 1975.

Producer, The Winds of Kitty Hawk, 1978.

Producer and sequence director, Marilyn: The Untold Story, 1980.

Executive producer, An Act of Love: The Patricia Neal Story (also known as The Patricia Neal Story), 1981.

Producer, Raid on Short Creek (also known as Child Bride of Short Creek), 1981.

Executive producer, Her Life as a Man, 1984.

Producer, Murder: By Reason of Insanity (also known as My Sweet Victim), 1985.

Producer, director, and still photographer, Margaret Bourke–White (also known as Double Exposure and Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke–White), TNT, 1989.

Director, The Plot to Kill Hitler, CBS, 1990.

Producer and director, Double Jeopardy, Showtime, 1992.

Television Work; Specials:

Producer and director, Come with Me—Lainie Kazan, syndicated, 1971.

Photographs, Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (documentary), American Movie Classics, 2001.

Television Appearances; Miniseries:

The Executioner's Song, NBC, 1982.

Wedding photographer, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, CBS, 2002.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Himself, People v. Simpson: Unfinished Business, Court TV, 1999.

Film Work:

Special still photographer, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1969.

Director and cinematographer, The Lexington Experience, Corda, 1971.

Director and editor, The American Dreamer, EYR, 1971.

Material supplier, Lenny, United Artists, 1974.

Codirector, The Man Who Skied down Everest, 1975.

Coproducer, Quiet Days in Clichy, 1990.

Affiliated with other films.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

The American Dreamer, EYR, 1971.

The Lexington Experience, Corda, 1971.

Nonfiction:

(Photographer and author of foreword) Richard Alpert and Sidney Cohen, LSD, New American Library, 1966.

(With Susan Atkins) Killing of Sharon Tate, Signet, 1970.

(With James Willwerth) American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense, Random House, 1996.

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder, HarperCollins, 1999.

Cape May Court House, HarperCollins, 2002.

(With Norman Mailer) Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen, HarperCollins, 2002.

Affiliated as investigator, compiler, or interviewer with The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Report: The Endless Paradox, by Richard Warren Lewis, Delacorte, 1967; Marilyn, a Biography, by Norman Mailer, Grosset & Dunlap, 1973; The Faith of Graffiti, by Mailer, Praeger, 1974; Ladies and Gentlemen—Lenny Bruce!, by Albert Goldman, Random House, 1975; Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Photographs, by Wilfrid Sheed, Crowell, 1975; Minamata: Words and Photographs, by W. Eugene Smith and Aileen M. Smith, 1976; The Executioner's Song, by Mailer, Little, Brown, 1979; I Want to Tell You: My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions (also known as I Want to Tell You), by O. J. Simpson, Little, Brown, 1995; Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, by Mailer, Random House, 1995; and Boulder: JonBenet and the West, by Charles Brennan, HarperCollins, 2000; also affiliated with the book Sunshine, by Norma Klein. Contributor to the book series Masters of Contemporary Photography. Contributor to periodicals, including George and New Yorker.

ADAPTATIONS

The television miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, broadcast by CBS in 2000, was based on Schiller's book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenet and the City of Boulder. The television miniseries American Tragedy, broadcast by CBS in 2000, was based on Schiller's book American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense.