12 Facts About Lawrence Schiller

Lawrence Julian Schiller was born on December 28,1936 and is an American photojournalist, film producer, director and screenwriter.

Since then Schiller has published 17 books, including W Eugene Smith's book Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn.

Lawrence Schiller has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.

American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town and Into the Mirror were made into television mini-series for CBS, all of which Lawrence Schiller produced and directed.

Lawrence Schiller was a close friend of Mailer and collaborator on five of his works.

Lawrence Schiller serves on the executive board of the Norman Mailer Society.

In 1999 Lawrence Schiller published a book on the JonBenet Ramsey murder case, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth, based on an article he had published in The New Yorker on the same subject.

Lawrence 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.

In 2005, Lawrence Schiller traveled to China and over two years built a collection of Chinese contemporary art, which numbers over 80 paintings and photographs.

Lawrence 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.

In 2017 Schiller curated the John F Kennedy Centennial for the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC and the New York Historical Society in New York City.

Lawrence Schiller now represents the Jacques Lowe Estate of historical photographs of the Kennedy family and the Lisl Steiner photographic archives.