Larry Peerce Video | Clips from Films Directed and Interviews

Larry Peerce (born April 19, 1930, The Bronx, New York City, New York) is an American film and TV director whose work includes the theatrical feature Goodbye, Columbus, the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, and One Potato, Two Potato (1964), the first U.S. movie to portray an interracial relationship between an African-American and a Caucasian. The son of operatic tenor Jan Peerce and talent agent Alice Peerce, Larry Peerce attended the University of North Carolina. He made his directing debut with One Potato, Two Potato, released in 1964 by the distributor Cinema V.... MORE

Larry Peerce (born April 19, 1930, The Bronx, New York City, New York) is an American film and TV director whose work includes the theatrical feature Goodbye, Columbus, the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, and One Potato, Two Potato (1964), the first U.S. movie to portray an interracial relationship between an African-American and a Caucasian. The son of operatic tenor Jan Peerce and talent agent Alice Peerce, Larry Peerce attended the University of North Carolina. He made his directing debut with One Potato, Two Potato, released in 1964 by the distributor Cinema V. The groundbreaking drama about an interracial marriage between a white divorcee (played by Barbara Barrie, who won the Best Actress award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival for the role) and an African-American office worker (Bernie Hamilton) was the first U.S. movie to portray such an interracial relationship. Peerce went on to direct several episodes of the Western television series Branded and the campy superhero series Batman, among other shows, before directing the early rock and roll concert film The Big T.N.T. Show, released in 1966 by American International Pictures and featuring such LESS