Lawrence Dobkin
September 16, 1919 · 106 years old
Lawrence Dobkin (September 16, 1919 – October 28, 2002) was an American television director, character actor and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.
Known For
7 titles
Patton
The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
The Defiant Ones
Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
Twelve O'Clock High
A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
5 Fingers
During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Illegal
After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.
Geronimo
In 1880s Arizona, General Crook and his troops are trying to subdue the last tribe of Apache led by Geronimo.
The Big Operator
During the 1950s, a corrupt labor union boss and the mob silence all those who witness their shady activities but an honest union member threatens to testify in front of a Senate Committee, thus becoming a murder-target.