Lawrence Woolner

American film producer

Lawrence Henry Woolner (12 April 1912 – 21 July 1985) was an American film producer, distributor, exhibitor and executive. He worked with Roger Corman on a number of films, helping him found New World Pictures.^[1] However he clashed with Corman and soon joined Warner Communications to set up his own company, Dimension Pictures, which ran for ten years.^[2]^[3] He was the brother of producer Bernard Woolner.

Select filmography

The Young, the Evil and the Savage (1968) - producer
Teenage Doll (1957) - associate producer
Terminal Island (1973) - executive producer
The Working Girls (1974) - executive producer
Raw Force (1982) - producer

References

^ 'Exploiting Feminism: An Interview with Stephanie Rothman (Part Two)' Confessions of an Aca Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, Oct 16,2007
^ Fred Olen Ray, The new poverty row: independent filmmakers as distributors, McFarland, 1991
^ 'Dimension Pictures (1971-1981)' Temple of Schlock, April 29, 2009