Lawrence B. Marcus

biography

Marcus did his military service in the US Army during the Second World War and during this time began writing texts for radio shows .

In the early 1950s he was a screenwriter for the television series Douglas Fairbanks junior , presents in 1953 and was also in the 1960s and 1970s writer and screenwriter of numerous television films and series such as Alcoa premiered by Fred Astaire .

His most important screenplays for movies include Brainstorm (Das devilish game, 1965) by William Conrad , The Covenant with Death (Mit dem Tod im Bunde, 1967) by Lamont Johnson , Petulia (1968) by Richard Lester , Justine ( Alexandria - Treibhaus der Sin , 1969), Going Home (1971) by Herbert B. Leonard, and Alex & the Gypsy (Love and Other Crimes, 1976).

After he was nominated for the 1969 Writers Guild of America Prize for Best American Drama for Petulia , he had his greatest success with the screenplay written by himself and Richard Rush for The Long Death of Stuntman Cameron . For this he was not only nominated for an Oscar at the 1981 Academy Awards and a Prize from the Writers Guild of America for the best adapted screenplay, but also for a Golden Globe in the category of best film script .

He then wrote the scripts for television films and series such as The Five of Me (1981), The Letter (1982) by John Erman based on the novel The Letter by William Somerset Maugham and Threesome (1984) by Lou Antonio .

personal data
SURNAME	Marcus, Lawrence B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Marcus, Larry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Beaver , Utah
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 2001
Place of death	Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California