Recent Projects

TRACE EVIDENCE: The Case Files of Dr. Henry Lee is a true crime television series created for Court TV in which Dr. Lee goes back to the actual scenes of his cases and recreates how he and his staff solved the crimes. During the first two years of the series, thirty-two cases were filmed throughout the United States and St. Thomas. Mr. Schiller was the executive producer and director of each show.

From 1996 through 2002, Mr. Schiller published four books that became national bestsellers: American Tragedy, October 1996; Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, February, 1999; Into the Mirror, April 2002 and Cape May Court House, September, 2002, all made the New York Times Bestseller list. American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town and Into the Mirror were made into television mini-series for CBS. Mr. Schiller produced and directed each of the motion pictures.

Mr. Schiller is a consultant to NBC news and has recently written for The New Yorker and George magazines.

His previous motion pictures are: Double Jeopardy (Producer/Director); The Plot to Kill Hitler (Director); Margaret Bourke-White (Producer/Director); The Executioner's Song, 2 Emmy Awards, (Producer Director); Peter the Great, 3 Emmy Awards, (Executive Producer/Director); Murder: By Reason of Insanity (Producer); Her Life As a Man (Producer); The Patricia Neal Story, 1 Emmy Award, (Producer); Child Bride of Short Creek (Co-Producer); Marilyn, The Untold Story, 1 Emmy Award, (Producer/Co-Director); The Winds of Kitty Hawk (Producer); Hey, I'm Alive (Producer/Director); The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (Producer); The Man Who Skied Down Everest, (USA Director).

Previous books as author or in collaboration with: Oswald's Tale, An American Mystery by Norman Mailer; I Want to Tell You by O.J. Simpson; The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer; Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce by Albert Goldman and Lawrence Schiller; LSD by Richard Albert, Sidney Cohen and Lawrence Schiller.

Previous books produced: Marilyn by Norman Mailer; Sunshine by Norma Klein; Minamata by W. Eugene Smith; Muhammad Ali by Wilfrid Sheed; The Faith of Graffiti by Norman Mailer; Masters of Contemporary Photography book series.

Biography

Lawrence Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, and grew up in San Diego. After graduating from Pepperdine College,he went to work for Life Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post as a photojournalist. He published his first book, LSD, in 1966. Since then he has published eleven books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. He collaborated with Albert Goldman on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce and with Norman Mailer on The Executioner's Song and Oswald's Tale. He had directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.

Selected Awards and Recognitions

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award Winner; The Christopher Award; The Film Advisory Board Award; Emmy and ACE awards judge; Representative of the USIA in the USA/USSR bilateral talks in Moscow and Washington, drafted and signed treaties with the Government of the USSR; Who's Who in America' Who's Who in the World; Representative from the United States to the Moscow International Peace Forum; Foreign Press Association Nomination; The USA Film Festival Award. Ê

Photography, Writing and Journalism

Four New York Times bestseller book listings; Christie's Auction of 19th and 20th Century Photography; National Press Photographers Awards; The Graflex Awards; The California Press Photographers Awards and The William R. Hearst Scholastic Sports Association Awards. Current member: Directors Guild of America; Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; Screen Actors Guild; ASCAP; BMI; AFTRA.

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