Lynn Stalmaster

Lynn Stalmaster
Born	(1927-11-17) November 17, 1927 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Nationality	US
Occupation	Casting director
Years active	1950-2006
Spouse(s)	Gloria McGough (1956-?) (divorced) Shirley A. Alexander (1962-1972) (divorced) (2 children)
Children	Lincoln Stalmaster (b. 1966) Lara Stalmaster

Lynn Arlen Stalmaster, born 1927 in Omaha, Nebraska, is an award winning American casting director.

Career

After serving in the U.S. Army Stalmaster got his first job in show business as an actor, appearing in the war movies The Steel Helmet (1951) and The Flying Leathernecks (1951). He also acted in the TV series Big Town but soon became involved in the casting department of the same show. Stalmaster established himself quickly as a solid casting director, finding steady work in both television and motion pictures. The name Lynn Stalmaster became well known especially to cinema-goers of the 1970s, when he was credited with casting more than 60 movies of the decade, among them; Fiddler on the Roof, Harold and Maude, The Cowboys, Deliverance, Rollerball, Silver Streak, Black Sunday, Coming Home, Convoy, The Rose, Superman and Being There.

Stalmaster was also responsible for casting TV-shows like Combat!, Gunsmoke, The Untouchables as well as Academy Award winning movies In the Heat of the Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Right Stuff and Brian De Palma's 1987 motion picture version of The Untouchables.

He is the older brother of actor Hal Stalmaster, who played the title role in the 1957 Walt Disney film, Johnny Tremain, a young silversmith in the American Revolution.

In 2016, he received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Filmography as casting director

partial list

• I Want to Live!, 1958
• Judgement at Nuremberg,1961
• Two for the Seesaw, 1962
• A Child Is Waiting, 1963
• Toys in the Attic, 1963
• Lady in a Cage, 1964
• Kiss Me, Stupid, 1964
• The Greatest Story Ever Told, 1965
• The Hallelujah Trail, 1965
• A Rage to Live, 1965
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, 1966
• The Fortune Cookie, 1966
• Return of the Seven, 1966
• In the Heat of the Night, 1967
• Hour of the Gun, 1967
• Fitzwilly, 1967
• The Scalphunters, 1968
• The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968
• The Killing of Sister George, 1968
• The Stalking Moon, 1968
• If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, 1969
• The April Fools, 1969
• The Bridge at Remagen, 1969
• What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, 1969
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, 1969
• Viva Max, 1969
• Too Late the Hero, 1970
• They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, 1970
• Monte Walsh, 1970
• Lawman, 1971
• Valdez Is Coming, 1971
• The Grissom Gang, 1971
• Fiddler on the Roof, 1971
• Harold and Maude, 1971
• The Cowboys, 1972
• Pocket Money, 1972
• The Wrath of God, 1972
• Deliverance, 1972
• Junior Bonner, 1972
• Jeremiah Johnson, 1972
• The New Centurions, 1972
• The Mechanic, 1972
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, 1972
• Lolly-Madonna XXX, 1973
• Scorpio, 1973
• The Iceman Cometh, 1973
• The Last Detail, 1973
• Sleeper, 1973
• Cinderella Liberty, 1973
• Rhinoceros, 1974
• Billy Two Hats, 1974
• Conrack, 1974
• Mandingo, 1975
• Rollerball, 1975
• Silver Streak, 1976
• Bound for Glory, 1976
• Black Sunday, 1977
• New York, New York, 1977
• Coming Home, 1978
• The Fury, 1978
• Foul Play, 1978
• Go Tell the Spartans, 1978
• Convoy, 1978
• Superman, 1978
• Being There, 1979
• Stir Crazy, 1980
• Caveman, 1981
• Airplane II: The Sequel, 1982

External links

• Lynn Stalmaster at IMDb
• Lynn Stalmaster at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television