Larry Peerce

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lawrence "Larry" Peerce (born April 19, 1930) is an American film and TV director whose work includes the theatrical feature Goodbye, Columbus, the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, One Potato, Two Potato (1964), The Other Side of the Mountain (1975), and Oscar nominee Two-Minute Warning (1976). The son of operatic tenor Jan Peerce and talent agent Alice (Kalmanowitz) Peerce, Larry Peerce was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York. He attended the University of North Carolina. He made his directing debut with One Potato, Two Potato, released in 1964 by the distributor Cinema V. The groundbreaking drama about an interracial marriage between a white divorcee (played by Barbara Barrie, who won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival for the role) and an African-American office worker (Bernie Hamilton) was the first U.S. movie to portray such an interracial relationship. Peerce went on to direct several episodes of the Western television series Branded and the campy superhero series Batman, among other shows, before directing the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, released in 1966 by Ame…

Directed

1. Batman (1966) — Director
2. Touched by an Angel (1994) — Director
3. North and South (1985) — Director
4. Two-Minute Warning (1976) — Director
5. The Green Hornet (1966) — Director
6. The Incident (1967) — Director
7. The Wild Wild West (1965) — Director
8. Goodbye, Columbus (1969) — Director
9. The Other Side of the Mountain (1975) — Director
10. Christmas Every Day (1996) — Director
11. Elvis and Me (1988) — Director
12. Child of Rage (1992) — Director
13. Wired (1989) — Director
14. One Potato, Two Potato (1964) — Director
15. Branded (1965) — Director
16. Hard to Hold (1984) — Director
17. Ash Wednesday (1973) — Director
18. The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II (1978) — Director
19. The Test of Love (1999) — Director
20. Love Child (1982) — Director
21. A Separate Peace (1972) — Director
22. The Sporting Club (1971) — Director
23. Second Honeymoon (2001) — Director
24. Run for Your Life (1965) — Director
25. The Fifth Missile (1986) — Director
26. The Bell Jar (1979) — Director
27. Felony Squad (1966) — Director
28. A Woman Named Jackie (1991) — Director
29. Holy Joe (1999) — Director
30. A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story (1994) — Director
31. Prison for Children (1987) — Director
32. The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990) — Director
33. The Legend of Jesse James (1965) — Director
34. Love-Struck (1997) — Director
35. An Element of Truth (1995) — Director
36. The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967) — Director
37. The Monroes (1966) — Director
38. The Loner (1965) — Director
39. The Neon Empire (1989) — Director
40. Murder So Sweet (1993) — Director