Robert Lawrence(III)
- Producer
- Executive
With over twenty-five years of motion picture industry experience as an executive and producer, Robert Lawrence has worked on some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies of the last two decades.
Lawrence produced the Paramount hit comedy Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone, and developed and executive produced Die Hard With A Vengeance. He also produced the Kelsey Grammar comedy Down Periscope, Rapid Fire, starring the late Brandon Lee, and A Kiss Before Dying, starring Matt Dillon and Sean Young.
Lawrence also produced Mozart and the Whale starring Josh Hartnett, The Last Castle, a military thriller starring Robert Redford, James Gandolfini and Mark Ruffalo; and Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston.
Lawrence was previously a Producer/CEO at the Warner Bros. based Maysville Pictures, the company he started with George Clooney. Before turning to independent filmmaking, Lawrence was President of Production for United Artists, where he developed such projects as Presumed Innocent, The Prince of Tides, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Rainman, which grossed over $300 million and won seven Academy Awards.
At the time that Lawrence was brought into United Artists the company was the first major motion picture studio start-up in almost fifty years. Lawrence helped turn United Artists into a major supplier of motion pictures until it merged with MGM and was ultimately sold to Sony.
He joined U.A. in 1985 after serving five and a half years as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Production for Columbia Pictures. There he worked on films such as Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Tootsie, and Out Of Africa.
Lawrence started in the film industry in the Paramount story department and a year later joined the Robert Evans unit as a writer. Lawrence graduated with Honors from University of California, Berkeley and attended the M.F.A. screenwriting/directing program at University of California, Los Angeles.
Lawrence produced the Paramount hit comedy Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone, and developed and executive produced Die Hard With A Vengeance. He also produced the Kelsey Grammar comedy Down Periscope, Rapid Fire, starring the late Brandon Lee, and A Kiss Before Dying, starring Matt Dillon and Sean Young.
Lawrence also produced Mozart and the Whale starring Josh Hartnett, The Last Castle, a military thriller starring Robert Redford, James Gandolfini and Mark Ruffalo; and Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston.
Lawrence was previously a Producer/CEO at the Warner Bros. based Maysville Pictures, the company he started with George Clooney. Before turning to independent filmmaking, Lawrence was President of Production for United Artists, where he developed such projects as Presumed Innocent, The Prince of Tides, Mrs. Doubtfire, and Rainman, which grossed over $300 million and won seven Academy Awards.
At the time that Lawrence was brought into United Artists the company was the first major motion picture studio start-up in almost fifty years. Lawrence helped turn United Artists into a major supplier of motion pictures until it merged with MGM and was ultimately sold to Sony.
He joined U.A. in 1985 after serving five and a half years as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Production for Columbia Pictures. There he worked on films such as Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Tootsie, and Out Of Africa.
Lawrence started in the film industry in the Paramount story department and a year later joined the Robert Evans unit as a writer. Lawrence graduated with Honors from University of California, Berkeley and attended the M.F.A. screenwriting/directing program at University of California, Los Angeles.
