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 HellstromMaking It as MalloryCannon as Herb MayerShaft as Tom HannonHawaii Five-O as Calvin Cutler6 Rms Riv Vu as Richard MillerWinter Kills as Peter Lockhard The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder as PasskiThe Man in the Glass Booth as Charlie CohnThe First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant as Dr. Konrad ZaneEverybody Rides the Carousel Stage 7 VoiceThe Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald as Paul EwbankThe Gathering as TomLike Mom, Like Me as Michael GruenWalk Proud as Henry LassiterThe Gathering, Part II as Tom9 to 5 as DickCry for the Strangers as Glen PalmerRehearsal for Murder as Lloyd AndrewsThe Red-Light Sting as Larry BartonThe Three Wishes of Billy Grier as FrankVictims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story as Dr. SteinFor Love or Money as HerbThe Deliberate Stranger as Ken WolvertonThe Hanoi Hilton as Col. CatheartLittle Girl Lost as LesterHonor Bound as MaxwellShe Knows Too Much as Robert HughesBreaking Point as Gen. SmithFire and Rain as Mr. HamiltonWhite Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd as Roland WestTo My Daughter with Love as Arthur MonroeThe Enemy Within as Atty. General Arthur DanielsStar 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 KornblumAngus as Principal MetcalfStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – episode "The Adversary" as Krajensky / Changeling Whose Daughter Is She? as Dr. Joe SteinerA Case for Life as CardiacThe Late Shift as Bob WrightThe Sunchaser as FBI Agent-In-Charge CollierShe Cried No as Edward ConnellThe Uninvited as WinstonTrial and Error as WhitfieldThe Maker as Father MinnellMy Giant as DoctorVery Bad Things as Mr. FisherMighty Joe Young as Dr. BakerAmerican Pie as Coach MarshallThe West Wing as Ken CochranSex and a Girl aka Alex in Wonder as School CounselorDr. Dolittle 2 as Governor of CaliforniaAmerican Wedding as Head CoachDC 9/11: Time of Crisis as Vice President Dick CheneyMurder Without Conviction as Dr. G. K. SandersonNine Lives as RomanFathers and Sons as Max's FatherAmerican Dreamz as White House ButlerMentor as Jonathan KendallThe Far Side of Jericho as Van DammTickling Leo as Warren PiklerMother and Child as Dr. MorganCriminal Minds as Judge Boyd SchullerBeyond the Heavens as Pastor JimTotem as Bernard9-1-1 as MitchellReboot as Jerry