Career
Lazarou began his career as story editor for the half-hour television comedy Doogie Howser, Doctor of Medicine and the one-hour drama The Untouchables. He wrote the screenplays for the television movies Heat Wave and Possessed, and for feature films Take the A Train and Satin Doll. He adapted his semi-autobiographical novel Criminal Law into a film for Home Box Office. This was followed up with The Stanford Prison Experiment, originally developed for television for Home Box Office, but later acquired by Artisan Entertainment as a motion picture.
Lazarou, is dyslexic and dysgraphic and was unable to read or write until he was nearly ten years old.
He is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles, New York University and the American Film Institute Center Foreign Advanced Film Studies. After a four-year career absence due to a near-fatal kidney ailment, he returned to establish High Road Productions with wife Charisse McGhee, a former Vice President of Primetime Series at National Broadcasting Company and Lifetime Television.
Personal life
Lazarou was married to Melissa Tucker in 1981. They divorced in 1983.
Lazarou and McGhee have since had four children together.
Heat Wave (1990) at the Internet Movie Database
Take the "A" Train (1990) at the Internet Movie Database
Satin Doll (1994) at the Internet Movie Database
Possessed (2000) at the Internet Movie Database.
