Lynn Stalmaster

from Omaha, Nebraska, USA

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Biography

From Wikipedia

Lynn Arlen Stalmaster, born 1927 in Omaha, Nebraska, is an award winning American casting director.

After serving in the U.S. Army 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). He also acted in the TV series Big Town but soon became involved in the casting department of the same show. Stalmaster established himself quickly as a solid casting director, finding steady work in both television and motion pictures. The name Lynn Stalmaster became well known especially to cinema-goers of the 1970s, when he was credited with 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 as well as Academy Award winning movies In the Heat of the Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Right Stuff and Brian De Palma's 1987 motion picture version of The Untouchables.

Timeline

2019Aged 92

  • Poster for Hal

    Self

2012Aged 85

  • Poster for Casting By

    Self

2007Aged 80

2006Aged 79

  • Poster for You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

    Self

  • Poster for A Lobster Tale

    Casting

  • Poster for Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

    Casting

2002Aged 75

  • Poster for Remembering Roots

    Self

2001Aged 74

  • Poster for Taking Flight: The Development of 'Superman'

    Self

  • Poster for Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

    Self

2000Aged 73

  • Poster for Battlefield Earth

    Casting Director

1996Aged 69

  • Poster for No Easy Way

    Casting

  • Poster for Carpool

    Casting

  • Poster for Crime of the Century

    Casting

  • Poster for To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

    Casting

1995Aged 68

  • Poster for Omaha (The Movie)

    Casting Consultant

  • Poster for Fluke

    Casting

1994Aged 67

  • Poster for Intersection

    Casting

  • Poster for Clifford

    Casting

  • Poster for There Goes My Baby

    Casting

  • Poster for Blue Sky

    Casting

  • Poster for Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

    Casting

1993Aged 66

  • Poster for Guilty as Sin

    Casting

  • Poster for The Program

    Casting

1992Aged 65

  • Poster for Folks!

    Casting

  • Poster for Stay Tuned

    Casting

  • Poster for Double Jeopardy

    Casting

1991Aged 64

  • Poster for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

    Casting

  • Poster for The Doctor

    Casting

  • Poster for Frankie and Johnny

    Casting

  • Poster for For the Boys

    Casting

1990Aged 63

  • Poster for Crazy People

    Casting

  • Poster for Taking Care of Business

    Casting

  • Poster for Havana

    Casting

  • Poster for The Bonfire of the Vanities

    Casting

1989Aged 62

  • Poster for Physical Evidence

    Casting

  • Poster for Get Smart, Again!

    Casting

  • Poster for Dead Bang

    Casting

  • Poster for The Jeweller's Shop

    Casting

  • Poster for Winter People

    Casting

  • Poster for Margaret Bourke-White

    Casting

  • Poster for See No Evil, Hear No Evil

    Casting

  • Poster for A Sinful Life

    Casting

  • Poster for Weekend at Bernie's

    Casting

  • Poster for Casualties of War

    Casting

  • Poster for Welcome Home

    Casting

  • Poster for Incident at Dark River

    Casting

1988Aged 61

  • Poster for Switching Channels

    Casting

  • Poster for Lady in White

    Casting

  • Poster for Split Decisions

    Casting

1987Aged 60

  • Poster for American Harvest

    Casting

  • Poster for Outrageous Fortune

    Casting

  • Poster for Amazing Grace and Chuck

    Casting

  • Poster for Spaceballs

    Casting

  • Poster for Dragnet

    Casting

  • Poster for Real Men

    Casting

  • Poster for Big Shots

    Casting

1986Aged 59

  • Poster for Nine 1/2 Weeks

    Casting

  • Poster for 8 Million Ways to Die

    Casting

1985Aged 58

  • Poster for Creator

    Casting

  • Poster for Marie: A True Story

    Casting

  • Poster for Love, Mary

    Casting

  • Poster for Santa Claus: The Movie

    Casting

1984Aged 57

  • Poster for Something About Amelia

    Casting

  • Poster for Master Ninja

    Casting

  • Poster for The Lonely Guy

    Casting

  • Poster for Unfaithfully Yours

    Casting

  • Poster for The Parade

    Casting Director

  • Poster for Harry & Son

    Casting

  • Poster for Her Life as a Man

    Casting

  • Poster for Supergirl

    Casting Director

  • Poster for Songwriter

    Casting

  • Poster for The Glitter Dome

    Casting

  • Poster for The River

    Casting

1983Aged 56

  • Poster for Deadly Lessons

    Casting

  • Poster for Class

    Casting

  • Poster for Love is Forever

    Casting

  • Poster for The Right Stuff

    Casting

  • Poster for Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess

    Casting

  • Poster for Uncommon Valor

    Casting

1982Aged 55

  • Poster for Making Love

    Casting

  • Poster for Some Kind of Hero

    Casting

  • Poster for Mae West

    Casting

  • Poster for Hanky Panky

    Casting

  • Poster for Young Doctors in Love

    Casting

  • Poster for Split Image

    Casting

  • Poster for First Blood

    Casting Director

  • Poster for Tootsie

    Casting

1981Aged 54

  • Poster for Crisis at Central High

    Casting

  • Poster for On the Right Track

    Casting

  • Poster for Caveman

    Casting

  • Poster for Second-Hand Hearts

    Casting

  • Poster for Blow Out

    Casting

  • Poster for Mommie Dearest

    Casting

  • Poster for Dark Night of the Scarecrow

    Casting

  • Poster for Splendor in the Grass

    Casting

  • Poster for Looker

    Casting

  • Poster for Absence of Malice

    Casting

1980Aged 53

  • Poster for The Black Marble

    Casting

  • Poster for The Mountain Men

    Casting

  • Poster for Wholly Moses

    Casting

  • Poster for The Women's Room

    Casting

  • Poster for Foolin' Around

    Casting

  • Poster for The Last Song

    Casting

  • Poster for Loving Couples

    Casting

  • Poster for A Change of Seasons

    Casting

  • Poster for Superman II

    Casting

  • Poster for Stir Crazy

    Casting

1979Aged 52

  • Poster for Ashanti

    Casting

  • Poster for Nightwing

    Casting

  • Poster for North Dallas Forty

    Casting

  • Poster for The Onion Field

    Casting

  • Poster for Prophecy

    Casting

  • Poster for 10

    Casting

  • Poster for Goldengirl

    Casting

  • Poster for The Last Word

    Casting

  • Poster for The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan

    Casting

  • Poster for The Rose

    Casting

  • Poster for Being There

    Casting

1978Aged 51

  • Poster for The Betsy

    Casting

  • Poster for Coming Home

    Casting

  • Poster for The Fury

    Casting

  • Poster for Gray Lady Down

    Casting

  • Poster for SST: Death Flight

    Casting

  • Poster for Damien - Omen II

    Casting

  • Poster for Matilda

    Casting

  • Poster for Convoy

    Casting

  • Poster for Go Tell the Spartans

    Casting

  • Poster for Foul Play

    Casting

  • Poster for The Users

    Casting

  • Poster for A Question of Love

    Casting

  • Poster for And I Alone Survived

    Casting

  • Poster for Superman

    Casting

  • Poster for Ishi: The Last of His Tribe

    Casting

1977Aged 50

  • Poster for Fun with Dick and Jane

    Casting

  • Poster for Brothers

    Casting

  • Poster for Black Sunday

    Casting

  • Poster for Audrey Rose

    Casting

  • Poster for Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

    Casting

  • Poster for Good Against Evil

    Casting

  • Poster for The Other Side of Midnight

    Casting

  • Poster for New York, New York

    Casting

  • Poster for You Light Up My Life

    Casting

  • Poster for Valentino

    Casting

  • Poster for Relentless

    Casting

  • Poster for The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

    Casting

  • Poster for Having Babies II

    Casting

1976Aged 49

  • Poster for James Dean

    Casting

  • Poster for Second Wind

    Casting

  • Poster for Harry and Walter Go to New York

    Casting

  • Poster for The Big Bus

    Casting

  • Poster for Having Babies

    Casting

  • Poster for I Want to Keep My Baby!

    Casting

  • Poster for Silver Streak

    Casting

  • Poster for Bound for Glory

    Casting

  • Archie

    Casting

  • Poster for Nickelodeon

    Casting

  • Poster for Victory at Entebbe

    Casting

  • Poster for 21 Hours at Munich

    Casting

1975Aged 48

  • Poster for Hustling

    Casting

  • Poster for The Wild Party

    Casting

  • Poster for Cornbread, Earl and Me

    Casting Director

  • Poster for Mandingo

    Casting

  • Poster for Rollerball

    Casting Director

  • Poster for The Master Gunfighter

    Casting

  • Poster for Katherine

    Casting

  • Poster for Beyond the Bermuda Triangle

    Casting

  • Poster for The Legend of Valentino

    Casting

1974Aged 47

  • Poster for Rhinoceros

    Casting

  • Poster for Billy Two Hats

    Casting

  • Poster for Conrack

    Casting

  • Poster for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

    Casting

  • Poster for The Dove

    Casting

  • Poster for The Great Niagara

    Casting

  • Poster for All the Kind Strangers

    Casting

1973Aged 46

  • Poster for Lolly-Madonna XXX

    Casting

  • Poster for Class of '63

    Casting

  • Poster for Scorpio

    Casting

  • Poster for A Chant of Silence

    Producer

  • Poster for A Night Train to Terror

    Producer

  • Poster for Isn't It Shocking?

    Casting

  • Poster for The Third Girl from the Left

    Casting

  • Poster for Jonathan Livingston Seagull

    Casting

  • Poster for The Girl Most Likely To...

    Casting

  • Poster for The Iceman Cometh

    Casting

  • Poster for A Summer Without Boys

    Casting

  • Poster for The Last Detail

    Casting

  • Poster for Sleeper

    Casting

  • Poster for Cinderella Liberty

    Casting

1972Aged 45

  • Poster for The Cowboys

    Casting

  • Poster for Pocket Money

    Casting

  • Poster for Junior Bonner

    Casting

  • Poster for The Magnificent Seven Ride!

    Casting

  • Poster for Deliverance

    Casting

  • Poster for Jeremiah Johnson

    Casting

  • Poster for Footsteps

    Producer

  • Poster for Hickey & Boggs

    Casting

  • Poster for The Mechanic

    Casting

  • Poster for The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

    Casting

1971Aged 44

  • Poster for The Sporting Club

    Casting

  • Poster for Lawman

    Casting

  • Poster for Valdez Is Coming

    Casting

  • Poster for The Grissom Gang

    Casting

  • Poster for Le Mans

    Casting

  • Poster for Sweet, Sweet Rachel

    Casting

  • Poster for The Organization

    Casting

  • Poster for Fiddler on the Roof

    Casting

  • Poster for Honky

    Casting

  • Poster for The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

    Casting

  • Poster for If Tomorrow Comes

    Casting

  • Poster for Harold and Maude

    Casting

1970Aged 43

  • Poster for Halls of Anger

    Casting

  • Poster for The Landlord

    Casting

  • Poster for Too Late the Hero

    Casting

  • Poster for The Hawaiians

    Casting

  • Poster for They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

    Casting

  • Poster for Monte Walsh

    Casting

  • Poster for Cannon for Cordoba

    Casting

1969Aged 42

  • Poster for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

    Casting

  • Poster for The April Fools

    Casting

  • Poster for The Bridge at Remagen

    Casting Director

  • Poster for Guns of the Magnificent Seven

    Casting

  • Poster for Castle Keep

    Casting

  • Poster for What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

    Casting

  • Poster for Viva Max!

    Casting

  • Poster for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

    Casting

  • Poster for Gaily, Gaily

    Casting

  • Poster for The Reivers

    Casting

1968Aged 41

  • Poster for The Scalphunters

    Casting

  • Poster for Yours, Mine and Ours

    Casting

  • Poster for The Thomas Crown Affair

    Casting

  • Poster for How Sweet It Is!

    Casting

  • Poster for The Killing of Sister George

    Casting

  • Poster for The Stalking Moon

    Casting

1967Aged 40

  • Poster for In the Heat of the Night

    Casting

  • Poster for Hour of the Gun

    Casting

  • Poster for Clambake

    Casting

  • Poster for Fitzwilly

    Casting

  • Poster for The Graduate

    Casting Consultant

1966Aged 39

1965Aged 38

  • Poster for The Satan Bug

    Casting

  • Poster for The Greatest Story Ever Told

    Casting

  • Poster for The Hallelujah Trail

    Casting

  • Poster for The Loved One

    Casting

  • Poster for A Rage to Live

    Casting

1964Aged 37

  • Poster for The Best Man

    Casting Director

  • Poster for Lady in a Cage

    Casting

  • Poster for Kiss Me, Stupid

    Casting

1963Aged 36

  • Poster for Irma la Douce

    Casting

  • Poster for A Child Is Waiting

    Casting

  • Poster for Toys in the Attic

    Casting

1962Aged 35

  • Poster for Pressure Point

    Casting

  • Poster for Two for the Seesaw

    Casting

1961Aged 34

  • Poster for West Side Story

    Casting

1960Aged 33

  • Poster for Inherit the Wind

    Casting

1959Aged 32

  • Poster for Tokyo After Dark

    Casting

  • Poster for Pork Chop Hill

    Casting

1958Aged 31

  • Poster for Kings Go Forth

    Casting

  • Poster for When Hell Broke Loose

    Casting

  • Poster for I Want to Live!

    Casting

1957Aged 30

  • Poster for Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

    Casting

  • Poster for Hot Rod Rumble

    Casting

  • Poster for Trooper Hook

    Casting

  • Poster for Black Patch

    Casting

1956Aged 29

  • Poster for Time Table

    Casting Consultant

  • Poster for Please Murder Me

    Casting Director

  • Poster for Screaming Eagles

    Casting

  • Poster for Johnny Concho

    Casting

1951Aged 24

  • Poster for The Steel Helmet

    Second Lieutenant

  • Poster for Flying Leathernecks

    Lt. Billy Castle (uncredited)

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