Lawrence Pressman

American actor (born 1939)

Lanna Saunders

(m. 1973; died 2007)

Children1RelativesNicholas Saunders (father-in-law), Nicholas Soussanin (grandfather-in-law)

Lawrence Pressman (born David Milton Pressman; July 10, 1939) is an American actor, probably best known for roles on Doogie Howser, M.D., Ladies' Man, a recurring role on Profiler, the title character on Mulligan's Stew and as a fictional scientist in the 1971 film The Hellstrom Chronicle.

Career

His first role was on the soap opera The Edge of Night, and one of his first movie starring roles was in Shaft (1971). Other film credits include Making It (1971), 9 to 5 (1980), The Hanoi Hilton (1987), Trial and Error (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998) and American Pie (1999).

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, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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.^[2] He starred in The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Harold Pinter, on both the West End and Broadway^[3]. He co-starred in the original Broadway production of Woody Allen's Play it Again, Sam^[4]. Pressman played Berowne in Michael Kahn's staging of Love's Labour's Lost at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1968.^[5] 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^[6]. In 2005, Pressman starred in The Paris Letter at Center Theater Group^[7]. In 2006, Pressman starred Off-Broadway in Paul Weitz's Show People at Second Stage Theater^[8]. In 2016, Pressman starred in Casa Valentina at Pasadena Playhouse^[9].

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.^[10]

Filmography

The Hellstrom Chronicle (film) (1971) as Dr Hellstrom
Making It (1971) as Mallory
Cannon (premier) (TV - 1971) as Herb Mayer
Shaft (1971) as Tom Hannon
Hawaii Five-O (TV - 1973) as Calvin Cutler
6 Rms Riv Vu (TV - 1974) as Richard Miller
Winter Kills (TV - 1974) as Peter Lockhard
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974) as Passki
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) as Charlie Cohn
The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant (TV - 1975) as Dr. Konrad Zane
Everybody Rides the Carousel (1975) Stage 7 Voice
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (TV - 1977) as Paul Ewbank
The Gathering (TV - 1977) as Tom
Like Mom, Like Me (TV - 1978) as Michael Gruen
Walk Proud (1979) as Henry Lassiter
The Gathering, Part II (TV - 1979) as Tom
9 to 5 (1980) as Dick
Cry for the Strangers (TV - 1982) as Glen Palmer
Rehearsal for Murder (TV - 1982) as Lloyd Andrews
The Red-Light Sting (TV - 1982) as Larry Barton
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (TV - 1984) as Frank
Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story (TV - 1984) as Dr. Stein
For Love or Money (TV - 1984) as Herb
The Deliberate Stranger (TV - 1986) as Ken Wolverton
The Hanoi Hilton (1987) as Col. Catheart
Little Girl Lost (1988) as Lester
Honor Bound (1988) as Maxwell
She Knows Too Much (TV - 1989) as Robert Hughes
Breaking Point (TV - 1989) as Gen. Smith
Fire and Rain (TV - 1989) as Mr. Hamilton
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (TV - 1991) as Roland West
To My Daughter with Love (TV - 1994) as Arthur Monroe
The Enemy Within (TV - 1994) as Atty. General Arthur Daniels
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – episodes "Second Skin" (1994), "Ties of Blood and Water" (1997) as Legate Tekeny Ghemor
The Rockford Files: I Still Love L. A. (TV - 1994) as Kornblum
Angus (1995) as Principal Metcalf
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – episode "The Adversary" (1995) as Krajensky / Changeling
Whose Daughter Is She? (TV - 1995) as Dr. Joe Steiner
A Case for Life (TV - 1996) as Cardiac
The Late Shift (TV - 1996) as Bob Wright
The Sunchaser (1996) as FBI Agent-In-Charge Collier
She Cried No (1996) as Edward Connell
The Uninvited (TV - 1996) as Winston
Trial and Error (1997) as Whitfield
The Maker (1997) as Father Minnell
My Giant (1998) as Doctor
Very Bad Things (1998) as Mr. Fisher
Mighty Joe Young (1998) as Dr. Baker
American Pie (1999) as Coach Marshall
The West Wing (2000) as Ken Cochran
Sex and a Girl aka Alex in Wonder (2001) as School Counselor
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) as Governor of California
American Wedding (2003) as Head Coach
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (TV - 2003) as Vice President Dick Cheney
Murder Without Conviction (TV - 2004) as Dr. G. K. Sanderson
Nine Lives (2005) as Roman
Fathers and Sons (TV - 2005) as Max's Father
American Dreamz (2006) as White House Butler
Mentor (2006) as Jonathan Kendall
The Far Side of Jericho (2006) as Van Damm
Tickling Leo (2009) as Warren Pikler
Mother and Child (2009) as Dr. Morgan
Criminal Minds (2009) as Jude Schuller
Beyond the Heavens (2013) as Pastor Jim
Totem (2017) as Bernard
9-1-1 (TV - 2018) as Mitchell
Reboot (TV - 2022) as Jerry

Carol & the End of the World (TV- 2023) as Bernard

References

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^ "About 1". www.theatreworldawards.org. Theatre World Awards.
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^ "See the actors of 'Casa Valentina' transform: 'When they become women, they open up like a flower'". www.thecrimson.com. The Harvard Crimson. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
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^ "See the actors of 'Casa Valentina' transform: 'When they become women, they open up like a flower'". Los Angeles Times. 03/17/2016. Retrieved 12 June 2024. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ "Soap star came from a family of performers". Times Colonist. Associated Press. March 16, 2007. p. D 11. Retrieved February 7, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.