# Lawrence Pressman

Lawrence Pressman (born David Milton Pressman; July 10, 1939) is an American actor. He is best known for roles on Doogie Howser, M.D., Ladies' Man, a recurring role on Profiler, the title character on Mulligan's Stew and as a fictional scientist in the 1971 film The Hellstrom Chronicle.

## Career

His first role was on the soap opera The Edge of Night, and one of his first movie starring roles was in Shaft (1971). Other film credits include Making It (1971), 9 to 5 (1980), The Hanoi Hilton (1987), Trial and Error (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998) and American Pie (1999).
He has appeared in TV movies such as The Gathering, A Fighting Choice, Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story. Guest roles on American television series includes episodes of Hawaii Five-O, The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Dawson's Creek, The Drew Carey Show, Law & Order, Matlock, Marcus Welby, M.D., Gilmore Girls, M*A*S*H, The West Wing, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Pressman played Bill Denton in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. He portrayed H. R. Haldeman in the 1979 CBS miniseries Blind Ambition, and also appeared in the 1983 mini-series The Winds of War.
Prolific on stage, Pressman won the Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut in Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory. He starred in The Man in the Glass Booth, directed by Harold Pinter, on both the West End and Broadway. He co-starred in the original Broadway production of Woody Allen's Play it Again, Sam. Pressman played Berowne in Michael Kahn's staging of Love's Labour's Lost at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1968. In 1987, Pressman starred in the world premier of Lee Blessing's A Walk in the Woods at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Des McAnuff. In 1998, Pressman starred as James Tyrone in Marshall Mason's staging of Long Day's Journey Into Night. In 2005, Pressman starred in The Paris Letter at Center Theater Group. In 2006, Pressman starred Off-Broadway in Paul Weitz's Show People at Second Stage Theater. In 2016, Pressman starred in Casa Valentina at Pasadena Playhouse.

## Personal life

Pressman met actress Lanna Saunders, daughter of actor Nicholas Saunders and granddaughter of actor Nicholas Soussanin, while studying with Elia Kazan; they were married in 1973 and had one child together, son David, before her death in 2007.

## Filmography

* The Hellstrom Chronicle (film) (1971) as Dr Hellstrom
* Making It (1971) as Mallory
* Cannon (premier) (TV - 1971) as Herb Mayer
* Shaft (1971) as Tom Hannon
* Hawaii Five-O (TV - 1973) as Calvin Cutler
* 6 Rms Riv Vu (TV - 1974) as Richard Miller
* Winter Kills (TV - 1974) as Peter Lockhard
* The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974) as Passki
* The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) as Charlie Cohn
* The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant (TV - 1975) as Dr. Konrad Zane
* Everybody Rides the Carousel (1975) Stage 7 Voice
* The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (TV - 1977) as Paul Ewbank
* The Gathering (TV - 1977) as Tom
* Like Mom, Like Me (TV - 1978) as Michael Gruen
* Walk Proud (1979) as Henry Lassiter
* The Gathering, Part II (TV - 1979) as Tom
* 9 to 5 (1980) as Dick
* Cry for the Strangers (TV - 1982) as Glen Palmer
* Rehearsal for Murder (TV - 1982) as Lloyd Andrews
* The Red-Light Sting (TV - 1982) as Larry Barton
* The Three Wishes of Billy Grier (TV - 1984) as Frank
* Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story (TV - 1984) as Dr. Stein
* For Love or Money (TV - 1984) as Herb
* The Deliberate Stranger (TV - 1986) as Ken Wolverton
* The Hanoi Hilton (1987) as Col. Catheart
* Little Girl Lost (1988) as Lester
* Honor Bound (1988) as Maxwell
* She Knows Too Much (TV - 1989) as Robert Hughes
* Breaking Point (TV - 1989) as Gen. Smith
* Fire and Rain (TV - 1989) as Mr. Hamilton
* White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd (TV - 1991) as Roland West
* To My Daughter with Love (TV - 1994) as Arthur Monroe
* The Enemy Within (TV - 1994) as Atty. General Arthur Daniels
* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – episodes "Second Skin" (1994), "Ties of Blood and Water" (1997) as Legate Tekeny Ghemor
* The Rockford Files: I Still Love L. A. (TV - 1994) as Kornblum
* Angus (1995) as Principal Metcalf
* Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – episode "The Adversary" (1995) as Krajensky / Changeling
* Whose Daughter Is She? (TV - 1995) as Dr. Joe Steiner
* A Case for Life (TV - 1996) as Cardiac
* The Late Shift (TV - 1996) as Bob Wright
* The Sunchaser (1996) as FBI Agent-In-Charge Collier
* She Cried No (1996) as Edward Connell
* The Uninvited (TV - 1996) as Winston
* Trial and Error (1997) as Whitfield
* The Maker (1997) as Father Minnell
* My Giant (1998) as Doctor
* Very Bad Things (1998) as Mr. Fisher
* Mighty Joe Young (1998) as Dr. Baker
* American Pie (1999) as Coach Marshall
* The West Wing (2000) as Ken Cochran
* Sex and a Girl aka Alex in Wonder (2001) as School Counselor
* Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) as Governor of California
* American Wedding (2003) as Head Coach
* DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (TV - 2003) as Vice President Dick Cheney
* Murder Without Conviction (TV - 2004) as Dr. G. K. Sanderson
* Nine Lives (2005) as Roman
* Fathers and Sons (TV - 2005) as Max's Father
* American Dreamz (2006) as White House Butler
* Mentor (2006) as Jonathan Kendall
* The Far Side of Jericho (2006) as Van Damm
* Tickling Leo (2009) as Warren Pikler
* Mother and Child (2009) as Dr. Morgan
* Criminal Minds (2009) as Jude Schuller
* Beyond the Heavens (2013) as Pastor Jim
* Totem (2017) as Bernard
* 9-1-1 (TV - 2018) as Mitchell
* Reboot (TV - 2022) as Jerry
* Carol & the End of the World (TV- 2023) as Bernard