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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.
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- April 19, 1930
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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.
- April 19, 1930
Jul 23, 2021 · Larry Peerce: I knew Barbara Barrie, but we had never worked together. It was always in my mind to cast her, I thought she was an extraordinary actress. I let her have these moments that I felt she needed, and I went with it. I felt the emotional strength with her.
One Potato, Two Potato is a 1964 black-and-white American drama film directed by Larry Peerce and starring Barbara Barrie and Bernie Hamilton. The film centers on an interracial romance and was produced and released at a time which such were very rarely openly conducted in the United States, and violated the prevailing social norms ...
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.
