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Lawrence Turman (28 November 1926, Los Angeles, CA - present) is a celebrated Hollywood producer who presently serves as the director of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California. Nominated for an Academy Award for The Graduate (1967), Turman has since produced films such as Pretty Poison (film) (1968), The Great White Hope (1970), Caveman (film) (1981), Mass Appeal (film) (1984) and Short Circuit (film) (1986). A member of the Producers Guild Hall of Fame, Turman is on the board of the Producers Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has recently executive produced a number of films, such as the modern classic, American History X (1998), starring Edward Norton as a reformed neo-Nazi struggling to protect his embattled younger brother from the trappings of hatred with which he is all too familiar. The Graduate is a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols from a screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. ... Pretty Poison is the name of a 1968 film directed by Noel Black, starring Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, about an ex-convict and high school cheerleader who commit a series of crimes. ... theatrical poster for The Great White Hope The Great White Hope, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning play written by Howard Sackler and first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1967, was the basis for the 1970 film of the same name. ... Caveman is a 1981 comedy film, financed by George Harrison, which stars Ringo Starr as a caveman who applies some modern day ideas in his comical prehistoric adventures. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... American History X is a 1998 film directed by Tony Kaye and written by David McKenna. ...

In 2005, Turman published a book entitled, So You Want to be a Producer with Three Rivers Press. He dedicates the large part of his time these days to the Peter Stark Producing Program.