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Lawrence "Larry" Peerce (born April 19, 1930) is an American film and TV director whose work includes the theatrical feature Goodbye, Columbus (1969), the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show (1965), One Potato, Two Potato (1964), The Other Side of the Mountain (1975) and Two-Minute Warning (1976).
Director: The Incident. Larry Peerce was born in 1930 in Bronx, New York, to the later Metropolitan Opera tenor Jan Peerce and his wife, Alice. Peerce's directorial career stretched from 1964 to 2001, embraced different genres and generated different results.
Jul 23, 2021 · You know when you’ve hit a conversational brick wall with director Larry Peerce–albeit a very kindly brick wall. There’s a slight groan, an utterance of the phrase “My boy…,” and a gentle bemusement as to why anyone would expect him to remember a 40-year-old film or incident (even though Peerce, 90 at the time of this interview, has ...
Director: The Incident. Larry Peerce was born in 1930 in Bronx, New York, to the later Metropolitan Opera tenor Jan Peerce and his wife, Alice. Peerce's directorial career stretched from 1964 to 2001, embraced different genres and generated different results.
Larry Peerce is an American film and TV director who made his debut with One Potato, Two Potato, the first U.S. movie to portray an interracial marriage. He also directed Goodbye, Columbus, The Big T.N.T. Show, The Other Side of the Mountain, and Two-Minute Warning, among others.
Began his career as a TV director and earned critical acclaim for his feature debut, "One Potato, Two Potato" (1964), shot on a budget of only $230,000. A sensitive and compelling account of an interracial marriage, the film earned star Barbara Barrie a Best Actress award at Cannes.
Find bio, credits and filmography information for Larry Peerce on AllMovie - The Bronx-born son of tenor Jan Peerce, Larry Peerce has had a directorial career of decidedly….
