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  1. Prior to his photography career, Thurm, now living in Los Angeles, was a top casting director. His work includes three iconic movies: Grease, Airplane!, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show and 10 years as Senior VP Talent and Casting for NBC from 1980-90. In high school, Thurm discovered photography using his mother’s ancient bellows Kodak ...

  2. Feb 2, 2023 · ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images. By Sandra E. Garcia. ... Joel Thurm was a central part of those teams, handpicking the actors whose performances would resonate for decades to come.

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  3. Feb 10, 2022 · "The Golden Girls" casting director Joel Thurm recounts how the leading ladies, especially Bea Arthur, really felt about Betty White on the podcast "The Originals."

  4. As a young lad, Joel’s inclinations were drawn to more intellectual than athletic pursuits. Due to his Jewish heritage, his career path would be medicine or the law. His mother loved Broadway theatre and, when Joel was about 12, she had the flu and couldn’t go one evening, so Joel went with his father to see Guys and Dolls in the city.

  5. Oct 31, 2023 · Oct 31, 2023. 12. Casting director Joel Thurm’s star-making, keen eye for talent is more than clearly evident in some of the most popular feature films and television shows in the history of entertainment. With the publication of his new, riveting, and straight-out stellar memoir, Sex, Drugs, and Pilot Season: Confession of a Casting Director ...

  6. Lights, Camera, Author! Interviews with Casting Director Joel Thurm. February 10, 2023

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