Career
He has also produced such films such as Pretty Poison (1968), The Great White Hope (1970), The Thing (1982), Mass Appeal (1984), Short Circuit (1986), The River Wild (1994), and American History X (1998). He has also directed two films: The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971) and Second Thoughts (1983). In 2005, Turman published the book So You Want to be a Producer with Three Rivers Press.
In 2014, he appeared as a guest critic on the fourth season of the web series On Cinema.
In 2015, he appeared as himself in Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s 30 for 30 documentary, Trojan War.