Michael Laughlin

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-11-28 (83 years old)

Deathday

2021-10-20

Place of Birth

Minonk, Illinois, USA

Michael Laughlin

Biography

Michael Laughlin was born in 1938 in the USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Strange Invaders (1983), Strange Behavior (1981) and Mesmerized (1985). He was married to Leslie Caron. He died on 20 October 2021 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. In 2012, Two-Lane Blacktop was chosen as one of only 20 films to be housed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Hailed as a minimalist classic, it was chosen as an example of the short-lived period of youth-oriented films following Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and Easy Rider in the late 1960s. Producers such as Laughlin financed a spate of low-budget, innovative films by young "New...

Production

1971

1981

Strange Behavior

as Director

1981

1983

Strange Invaders

as Director

1983

Strange Invaders

as Screenplay

1983

1985

Mesmerized

as Screenplay

1985

Mesmerized

as Director

1968

Joanna

as Producer

2001

1991

Shanghai 1920

as Screenplay

1971

Chandler

as Producer

1967

The Whisperers

as Producer

1976

Nicole

as Producer

1971

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