Lawrence Guterman

Lawrence Guterman
Born	July 18, 1966 (1966-07-18) Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Other names	Larry Guterman
Education	Harvard
Alma mater	USC School of Cinematic Arts
Occupation	Film director, Film producer, Editor, Television writer
Years active	1989-Present

Lawrence "Larry" Guterman is a Canadian film director known for his work in companies like DreamWorks, Warner Bros. and Universal. He directed Cats & Dogs, Son of the Mask, and Back in Time. He also directed some of the episodes of Out of Jimmy's Head from 2007 to 2008.

Personal life

Guterman went back to school after working in animation and received a Master's degree in Film from the University of Southern California.

Career

Guterman was raised in Montreal and Toronto, where he made his first short films in grade eight. After high school, Guterman went to the United States to attend MIT and then Harvard University, where he received a physics degree. Guterman would return to Canada every summer to study animation at Sheridan College of Art. He created illustrations for the Harvard Lampoon. His interest in film-making was renewed after completing a 15-minute documentary for one of his courses at Harvard.

After university, he moved to Los Angeles and worked on computer graphics and as a script reader for Columbia Pictures. While in Los Angeles, Guterman attended USC School of Cinematic Arts to expand his film knowledge. While there, he sold two feature-length scripts to major film studios and co-wrote a script for the Tales from the Crypt series. The latter caught the attention of Robert Zemeckis and HBO.

He directed and co-wrote the short, Headless!, which earned positive reviews at USC's First Look Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at Worldfest in Huston. Guterman took his first role as director when he worked on a video game based on the Goosebumps series for DreamWorks Interactive after Steven Spielberg saw his short "Headless!" (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0349183/bio, http://www.filmbug.com/db/342474). He was then offered to direct several sequences for the computer-animated film, Antz (1998) for DreamWorks Animation.

In the early 2000s Guterman made his feature film directorial debut with Cats & Dogs (2001) followed by Son of the Mask (2005) and the upcoming Back in Time (2012).

Filmography

Director

• Headless! (1990)
• Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (1996) (VG)
• Antz (1998) (director: additional sequences)
• Cats & Dogs (2001) (as Larry Guterman)
• Son of the Mask (2005) (as Larry Guterman)
• Out of Jimmy's Head (2007–2008) (TV)
• Back in Time (2012) (as Larry Guterman)

Editor

• Girth of a Nation (1994)

Thanks

• The Pawfect Plan (2009)

Writer

• Tales from the Crypt (1989) (scripts) (as Larry Guterman)

External links

• Lawrence Guterman at the Internet Movie Database