American film producer, Lawrence Turman has been reported dead. According to sources, he died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 1, 2023. He was 96 years old at the time of death.
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Born on November 28, 1926, Lawrence Turman was a renowned film producer who had been nominated for an Academy Award in 1967 for the movie The Graduate.

He was a co-partner of The Turman/Foster Company with David Foster, which was established in 1972, to make theatrical films, which was increasingly prominent in television production, in order to eye on television movies, and planned work on series, and eyeing television sales, and the company ran under contract to Warner Bros., developing their failed television pilots, like Mass Appeal.
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Turman was a member of the Producers Guild Hall of Fame and was on the board of the Producers Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He served as the director of The Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California.
He was known for several movies including Pretty Poison, The Great White Hope, The Thing, Short Circuit, The River Wild, American History X, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, Second Thoughts, and more.


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