david lawrence

David Lawrence has had a love affair with Europe since he produced his first television movie over a whirlwind 5-week schedule shooting in London, Paris, Rome and Amsterdam. “Tourist”, a co-production of Lawrence’s Castle Combe Productions and 20th Century Fox, starred Bonnie Bedelia, Bradford Dillman, Adrienne Barbeau and Marisa Berenson with a script by Norman Hudis and Lawrence. During recent years, Lawrence has added a diverse and successful group of movies and miniseries to his European line-up. The most ambitious, a six-hour miniseries, was produced in association with Tribune Entertainment in the U.S., Raidue in Italy, Canal Plus in France and TaurusFilm of Germany. “Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair” starred Burt Lancaster, Eva Marie Saint and Robert Culp supported by a huge cast from nine countries and filmed at sea on board the actual ship and sites throughout Israel and Italy. Following this year-long schedule, Lawrence produced several miniseries in association with Titanus Produzione of Rome including “Vendetta” and a sequel “The Young Mafia” starring Carol Alt, Eric Roberts, Eli Wallach and Bert Young. In the period between these efforts and “Tourist”, David Lawrence was responsible for bringing to television the movie “Helen Keller: the Miracle Continues” starring Mare Winningham as Helen and Blythe Danner as her beloved teacher in a story taking place ten years after the end of “The Miracle Worker”. Jack Warden, Vera Miles, and Peter Cushing co-starred in the film Lawrence produced near London in association with 20th Century Fox. In a remarkable change of pace, Lawrence next produced the World War Two spy thriller, “The Key to Rebecca”, based on the best-selling novel by Ken Follett. The miniseries starred Cliff Robertson, David Soul, Season Hubley, Robert Culp, Anthony Quayle and David Hemmings who also directed. The Castle Combe Production in association with Taft Entertainment was filmed in Tunisia. It reunited Lawrence with Hemmings who had directed a feature film, “Escape 2000” based on Lawrence’s story. In Vancouver, Lawrence produced a landmark movie for ABC, “Consenting Adult”, directed by Gil Cates, and starring Marlo Thomas and Martin Sheen as parents whose liberal views are tested to the breaking point when their youngest son admits his homosexuality. Back in New York, Lawrence served as Executive Producer for the last year of the long-running Daytime Drama, “Search For Tomorrow” . He followed this st