Lawrence Turman, Oscar-nominated producer of ‘The Graduate’ and 'American History X,' died on Saturday. He was 96.
Turman died Saturday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills. His son John Turman confirmed his death to The Times.
His zest for the film industry carried him through a prolific career that spanned more than six decades. He produced more than 40 films, two of which he directed, and in 1991 he signed on to head USC’s esteemed Peter Stark Producing Program, a post he held until he retired two years ago at 94. “He married my mother in 1958. After a rollicking time in a great, rambling house in Brentwood, they divorced” in the early 1970s, the brothers Turman wrote. His father remarried twice, “had another significant relationship, and flirted embarrassingly but successfully till the end.”He noted that his father ate a papaya daily “despite the fact that he did not like fruit but because he believed it was healthy for him.” He also swam laps to keep fit.
Turman’s son John Turman, a screenwriter known for “Hulk” and “Ticking Clock,” told The Times via email that growing up, he was “lucky enough to eavesdrop on his father’s conversations with friends who were some of the great writers, William Goldman, Ernest Lehman, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Neil Simon, so many more.”
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