Lynn Arlen Stalmaster (November 17, 1927 – February 12, 2021) was an American casting director. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]
Career
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).
Stalmaster is known for 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, My Favorite Martian (S01,E01)' as well as Academy Award winning movies In the Heat of the Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Right Stuff and The Untouchables.
In 2016, he received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Death
Stalmaster died in Los Angeles on February 12, 2021 at the age of 93.[2]
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