Larry Peerce was born in 1935 in The Bronx, New York, the son of tenor Jan Peerce and his wife. Peerce's directorial career stretched for 37 years from 1964 to 2001, and embraced different genres and generated different results.In the 1960s, it seemed as if Peerce would become a major filmmaker. His first film, One Potato, Two Potato (1964), was a sensitively told story about an interracial marriage. It won an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Orville H. Hampton and R ...[Read Story]