Lawrence Schiller
Lawrence Schiller | |
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Born | New York City, New York | December 28, 1936
Occupation(s) | photojournalist, producer, director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1958 - present |
Lawrence Julian Schiller (born December 28, 1936) is an American photojournalist, film producer, director and screenwriter.
Career
Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn to Jewish
He has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and
Following the June 12, 1994 stabbing deaths of
In 1999 Schiller published a book on the
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, The John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation, The Ray Bradbury Estate, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Photographers Annie Leibovitz Studio and Steven Klein 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 US at the exhibition Marilyn Monroe and America in the 1960s.[7] It is for these photographs of Marilyn that Schiller is perhaps best known as a photographer. Schiller first photographed Monroe in May 1960 on the set of Let’s Make Love, and then again in 1962 when he was hired to photograph the star on the set of what would become the last film she would ever work on, the unfinished Something’s Got To Give.[8] Marilyn & Me,[9] Schiller's 11th book, commemorates his experience photographing the Hollywood legend, complete with 131 color and black-and-white photographs. In 2017 Schiller curated the John F. Kennedy Centennial for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the New York Historical Society in New York City.[10] He also now represents the Jacques Lowe Estate of historical photographs of the Kennedy family and the Lisl Steiner photographic archives. In 2018 he curated the Robert Kennedy - Martin Luther King, Jr. exhibition for the New York Historical Society. He also managed the 2020 Centennial of Ray Bradbury.
Schiller resides in Sherman Oaks, California with his wife Nina Wiener, the Editor in Chief of The Mayo Clinic Press.
Works
Filmography
- Double Jeopardy (1992) Producer/Director
- I Love My Friends (1985 Kris Kardashianmusic video) Director
- The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975 documentary) USA Director
- Lenny (1974) Material supplier
- Soon There Will Be No More Me (1972 documentary) Producer/Director
- Lady Sings The Blues (1972) Titles/Still montage director
- The American Dreamer (1971 documentary) Producer/Co-director/Writer
- The Lexington Experience (1971 documentary) Producer/Director
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Still montage director
Books
Books – as author or in collaboration with:
- LSD (WS Press, 2023) Commemorative Edition by Richard Alpert aka Ram Dass, Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller
- All of Me Is Illustrated (RosettaBooks/Inked 2020) With stories by Ray Bradbury, tattoos by today's artists. Conceived and directed by Lawrence Schiller
- The Fire Next Time (Taschen Books 2018) By James Baldwin with photos by Steve Schapiro and conceived by Lawrence Schiller
- The Promise and the Dream, The Untold Story of MLK and RFK (RosettaBooks 2018) By David Margolick and produced by Lawrence Schiller
- Electric Kool Aid Acid Test (Taschen 2017) By Tom Wolfe and photos by Lawrence Schiller
- JFK: A Vision for America (HarperCollins 2017) Produced by Lawrence Schiller, Edited by Stephen Kennedy Smith & Douglas Brinkley
- Around the World in 125 Years (Taschen/National Geographic 2017) Photos by various photographers and conceived by Lawrence Schiller
- Barbra Streisand (Taschen Books 2014) by Steve Schapiro & Lawrence Schiller
- Marilyn & Me, A Photographer's Memories (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2012) by Lawrence Schiller
- Superman Comes to the Supermarket (Taschen Books 2012) By Norman Mailer with various photographers and conceived by Lawrence Schiller
- Moonfire (Taschen Books 2009) By Norman Mailer with various photographers and conceived by Lawrence Schiller
- Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen(HarperCollins 2002) by Lawrence Schiller
- Cape May Court House: A Death in the Night (HarperCollins 2002) by Lawrence Schiller
- Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenetand the City of Boulder (HarperCollins 1999) by Lawrence Schiller
- American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense (Random House 1996) by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth
- I Want to Tell You – My Response to Your Letters, Your Messages, Your Questions (Little Brown 1995) by O. J. Simpson with Lawrence Schiller
- Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House 1996) by Norman Mailer
- The Executioner's Song (Hutchinson & Co. 1979) by Norman Mailer
- The Faith of Graffiti (HarperCollins 2009) by Norman Mailer and Jon Naar
- Marilyn: A Biography (Grosset and Dunlap 1973) by Norman Mailer and the world's foremost photographers
- Ladies and Gentlemen Lenny Bruce!! (Random House 1974) by Albert Goldman and Lawrence Schiller
- The Killing of Sharon Tate (New American Library 1970) by Susan Atkins and Lawrence Schiller
- Richard Alpert, Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller
Television
- Dead Man Talking The Gary Gilmore story, (Reelz Network) Executive Producer
- Overkill The JonBenet Story (Reelz Network) Executive Producer
- The Secret Tapes of the O. J. Case: The Untold Story, O. J. Speaks: The Hidden Tapes (LMN & A&E Networks, 2015) Executive Producer
- JonBenet: Anatomy of a Cold Case (Court TV, 2006) Executive Producer/Director
- Trace Evidence: The Case Files of Dr. Henry Lee (Court TV, 2004, 2005) Executive Producer/Director
- Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story (CBS, 2002) Producer/Director
- American Tragedy (CBS, 2000) Producer/Director/Writer (based on Schiller's book American Tragedy)
- Perfect Murder, Perfect Town (CBS, 2000) Producer/Director (based on Schiller's book Perfect Murder, Perfect Town)
- The Plot to Kill Hitler (Warner Bros./CBS, 1990) Director
- Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White (TNT, 1989) Producer/Director
- Peter the Great(NBC, 1986) Executive Producer/Co-director
- Recipient of 3 Emmy Awards, Writers Guild of America Award
- The Executioner's Song (NBC, 1982) Producer/Director
- Recipient of 2 Emmy Awards, Time Magazine, Best of the Year, Hollywood Reporter, Best of the Decade
- Murder: By Reason of Insanity (CBS, 1985) Producer
- Her Life as a Man (NBC, 1986) Executive Producer
- The Patricia Neal Story (CBS, 1982) Executive Producer
- Recipient of 1 Emmy Award
- Child Bride of Short Creek (NBC, 1982) Co-Producer
- Marilyn, The Untold Story (ABC, 1980) Producer/Co-director
- Recipient of 1 Emmy Award
- The Winds of Kitty Hawk (NBC, 1978) Producer/Flying sequences and montages director
- The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (ABC, 1976) Producer
- Hey, I'm Alive (ABC, 1975) Producer/Director
Selected awards and recognitions
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award Winner for Peter the Great
- The Christopher Award for The Patricia Neal Story
- Representative of the US 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
- Numerous National Press Photographers Association Photographic Awards
References
- ^ "Revealed: the last intimate moments of Marilyn Monroe - The Jewish Chronicle". Archived from the original on 2021-06-27.
- ^ "LENNY BRUCE: "Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?" 1967 audio documentary [full album]". YouTube.
- ^ The Norman Mailer Society Archived 2018-10-14 at the Wayback Machine, official web site. Accessed April 2014.
- ISBN 9781570423192.
- ISBN 9780679456827.
- ISBN 9780061096969.
- ^ "Marilyn Monroe and America in the 1960s-The Photographs of Lawrence Schiller - artron.net". en.artron.net. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ "ArtfixDaily.com ArtGuild Members". www.artfixdaily.com. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ "Lawrence Schiller. Marilyn & Me. TASCHEN Books (Limited Edition)". www.taschen.com. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ "American Visionary: John F. Kennedy's Life and Times | Smithsonian American Art Museum".