Lawrence Pressman


Lawrence Pressman is an American actor. He is best known for roles on Doogie Howser, M.D., Ladies' Man, Profiler, the title character on Mulligan's Stew, as a fictional scientist in the 1971 film The Hellstrom Chronicle, as well as films such as 9 to 5, Shaft, and American Pie.
With an extensive stage career, Pressman starred on Broadway in The Man in the Glass Booth directed by Harold Pinter, Play it Again, Sam, and Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory, for which he won the Theatre World Award.

Career

His first role was on the soap opera The Edge of Night, and one of his first movie starring roles was in Shaft. In 1971, Pressman starred in The Hellstrom Chronicle, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other film credits include Making It, 9 to 5, The Hanoi Hilton, Trial and Error, Mighty Joe Young and American Pie.
He has appeared in TV movies such as The Gathering, A Fighting Choice, Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story. Guest roles on American television series includes episodes of Hawaii Five-O, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Dawson's Creek, The Drew Carey Show, Law & Order, Matlock, Marcus Welby, M.D., Gilmore Girls, M*A*S*H, The West Wing, NCIS, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Criminal Minds.
Pressman played Bill Denton in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. He portrayed H. R. Haldeman in the 1979 CBS miniseries Blind Ambition, and also appeared in the 1983 mini-series The Winds of War.
Prolific on stage, Pressman won the Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut in Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory. He starred in The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Harold Pinter, on both the West End and Broadway. He co-starred in the original Broadway production of Woody Allen's Play it Again, Sam. Pressman played Berowne in Michael Kahn's staging of Love's Labour's Lost at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1968. In 1987, Pressman starred in the world premier of Lee Blessing's A Walk in the Woods at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Des McAnuff. In 1998, Pressman starred as James Tyrone in Marshall Mason's staging of Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 2005, Pressman starred in The Paris Letter at Center Theater Group. In 2006, Pressman starred Off-Broadway in Paul Weitz's Show People at Second Stage Theater. In 2016, Pressman starred in Casa Valentina at Pasadena Playhouse.

Personal life

Pressman met actress Lanna Saunders, daughter of actor Nicholas Saunders and granddaughter of actor Nicholas Soussanin, while studying with Elia Kazan; they were married in 1973 and had one child together, son David, before her death in 2007.

Filmography

  • The Hellstrom Chronicle as Dr Hellstrom
  • Making It as Mallory
  • Cannon as Herb Mayer
  • Shaft as Tom Hannon
  • Hawaii Five-O as Calvin Cutler
  • 6 Rms Riv Vu as Richard Miller
  • Winter Kills as Peter Lockhard
  • The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder as Passki
  • The Man in the Glass Booth as Charlie Cohn
  • The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant as Dr. Konrad Zane
  • Everybody Rides the Carousel Stage 7 Voice
  • The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald as Paul Ewbank
  • The Gathering as Tom
  • Like Mom, Like Me as Michael Gruen
  • Walk Proud as Henry Lassiter
  • The Gathering, Part II as Tom
  • 9 to 5 as Dick
  • Cry for the Strangers as Glen Palmer
  • Rehearsal for Murder as Lloyd Andrews
  • The Red-Light Sting as Larry Barton
  • The Three Wishes of Billy Grier as Frank
  • Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story as Dr. Stein
  • For Love or Money as Herb
  • The Deliberate Stranger as Ken Wolverton
  • The Hanoi Hilton as Col. Catheart
  • Little Girl Lost as Lester
  • Honor Bound as Maxwell
  • She Knows Too Much as Robert Hughes
  • Breaking Point as Gen. Smith
  • Fire and Rain as Mr. Hamilton
  • White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd as Roland West
  • To My Daughter with Love as Arthur Monroe
  • The Enemy Within as Atty. General Arthur Daniels
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – episodes "Second Skin", "Ties of Blood and Water" as Legate Tekeny Ghemor
  • The Rockford Files: I Still Love L. A. as Kornblum
  • Angus as Principal Metcalf
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – episode "The Adversary" as Krajensky / Changeling
  • Whose Daughter Is She? as Dr. Joe Steiner
  • A Case for Life as Cardiac
  • The Late Shift as Bob Wright
  • The Sunchaser as FBI Agent-In-Charge Collier
  • She Cried No as Edward Connell
  • The Uninvited as Winston
  • Trial and Error as Whitfield
  • The Maker as Father Minnell
  • My Giant as Doctor
  • Very Bad Things as Mr. Fisher
  • Mighty Joe Young as Dr. Baker
  • American Pie as Coach Marshall
  • The West Wing as Ken Cochran
  • Sex and a Girl aka Alex in Wonder as School Counselor
  • Dr. Dolittle 2 as Governor of California
  • American Wedding as Head Coach
  • DC 9/11: Time of Crisis as Vice President Dick Cheney
  • Murder Without Conviction as Dr. G. K. Sanderson
  • Nine Lives as Roman
  • Fathers and Sons as Max's Father
  • American Dreamz as White House Butler
  • Mentor as Jonathan Kendall
  • The Far Side of Jericho as Van Damm
  • Tickling Leo as Warren Pikler
  • Mother and Child as Dr. Morgan
  • Criminal Minds as Judge Boyd Schuller
  • Beyond the Heavens as Pastor Jim
  • Totem as Bernard
  • 9-1-1 as Mitchell
  • Reboot as Jerry
  • Magnum, P.I. as Gus Urima
  • Carol & the End of the World as Bernard
  • No Good Deed as Victor Friedberg
  • High Potential as George Donovan