Mike DeGruy
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Born on December 29, 1951.
Mike DeGruy was an American documentary filmmaker specializing in underwater cinematography. His credits include Life in the Freezer, Trials of Life, The Blue Planet and Pacific Abyss.
On February 4, 2012, DeGruy was killed in a helicopter crash at Jaspers Brush near the town of Berry in New South Wales.
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Born on January 20, 2012 in Pensacola, Florida.
Larry Butler was a country music producer/songwriter. From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, he worked with Kenny Rogers. Many of his albums with Rogers went either gold or platinum and accumulated many millions of sales around the world. These albums include Kenny Rogers (1976), The Gambler (1978), Gideon (1980) and I Prefer The Moonlight (1987). Rogers and Butler maintained a friendship outside of show business. Butler also produced Rogers’ 1993 album If Only My Heart Had A Voice. He also participated in Rogers 2006 retrospective DVD The Journey. Butler is the only Nashville producer to win the Grammy Award for Producer of the year.
Butler died in his sleep in Pensacola, Florida on January 20, 2012.
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Born on May 5, 1933 in New York City.
Bert Schneider was an American movie producer, responsible for several important and topical films of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Schneider died of natural causes aged 78 in Los Angeles on December 12, 2011.
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Born on July 8, 1930 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
John Calley was an American film studio executive and producer. He was quite influential during his years at Warner Bros. (where he worked from 1968 to 1981) and “produced a film a month, on average, including commercial successes like The Exorcist and Superman.” During his seven years at Sony Pictures Entertainment starting in 1996, five of which he was chairman and chief executive, he was credited with “reinvigorat[ing]” that major film studio.
Calley died on September 13, 2011 (aged 81) in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Born on November 14, 1916 in Passaic, New Jersey.
Sherwood Schwartz was an American television producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, and created the television series Gilligan’s Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC. On March 7, 2008, Schwartz, at the time still active in his 90s, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sherwood Schwartz died on July 12, 2011 of natural causes.
Comments OffBob Banner
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Born August 15, 1921 in Ennis, Texas, U.S.
Bob Banner was an Emmy-winning American producer, writer and director. From 1967 to 1972 he co-produced The Carol Burnett Show.
Banner died June 15, 2011, in Los Angeles at age 89.
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Born on March 3, 1950 in San Fernando Valley, California, United States.
Laura Ziskin was an American film producer. In 1990, Ziskin was the sole executive producer of the hit comedy Pretty Woman. Ziskin became the first woman to produce the Academy Awards telecast alone, producing the 74th Academy Awards in 2002 and the 79th Academy Awards in 2007.
Ziskin died of breast cancer at her home in Santa Monica, California on June 12, 2011, aged 61.
Comments OffMartin Rushent
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Born on January 3, 1948 in England.
Martin Rushent was an English musician and record producer. Rushent entered the music business in the early 1970s as an engineer working on records by T. Rex, David Essex, Fleetwood Mac, Yes,Gentle Giant and Shirley Bassey amongst others. However, it was after punk that he came into his own as a producer working on records by Buzzcocks, Generation X, XTC, 999 and The Stranglers.
Rushent died on June 4, 2011.
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Born on July 23, 1929 in Toronto, Ontario.
Jack Richardson was a Juno Award-nominated Canadian record producer and Order of Canada recipient. He is perhaps best known for producing the biggest hit records from The Guess Who from 1969 to 1975. He was an educator at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario in the Music Industry Arts program, as well as at the Harris Institute for the Arts in Toronto, Ontario in the Producing and Engineering Program (PEP). The Juno Award for “Producer of the Year” has been named in Richardson’s honour since 2002.
Richardson died on May 13, 2011 (aged 81) in London, Ontario.
Comments OffRoger Gimbel
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Born on March 11, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Roger Gimbel was an Emmy Award-winning American television producer who specialized in television movies. Many of Gimbel’s television films dealt with real-life events, including Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic, The Amazing Howard Hughes and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Oftentimes, Gimbel’s films also focused on serious societal problems, including mental illness, war and domestic abuse. Gimbel’s produced more than 500 television films and specials, which earned eighteen Emmy Awards.
Gimbel died from pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, on April 26, 2011, at the age of 86.
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