Jack Richardson
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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.
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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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Born November 7, 1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Walter Seltzer died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, California on February 18, 2011, aged 96, from pneumonia.
Seltzer was an American film producer. He sat on the Motion Picture & Television Fund Board of Trustees, and was honored with the Silver Medallion for Humanitarian Achievement by the group in 1986.
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Born on November 4, 1971 in Richmond, Virginia
Perry Moore died in Manhattan, on February 17, 2011, at the age of 39. The New York Daily News reported his death was from an apparent drug overdose.
Moore was a producer of the Chronicles of Narnia films and an award-winning gay author. He had written an illustrated book to accompany The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. He also won a Lambda Literary award best novel prize for his 2007 book Hero, about a gay teenage superhero.
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Born on April 17, 1934 in Bronx, New York
Don Kirshner died on January 17, 2011 at the age of 76 due to heart failure.
Don Kirshner known as “The Man With the Golden Ear”, was an American song publisher and rock producer who is best known for managing songwriting talent as well as successful pop groups, such as The Monkees and The Archies.
Comments OffAron Abrams
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Aron Abrams, writer and producer on TV comedies “Everybody Hates Chris” and “King of the Hill,” and was supervising producer of ”Grounded for Life” and “3rd Rock From the Sun.” died suddenly Saturday, December 25, 2010 on the Big Island of Hawaii while on vacation. He was 50.
Clay Cole-Producer
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Born on January 1, 1938, in Youngstown, Ohio.
Cole died in December 18, 2010, at the age of 72
He became a juvenile stage and radio actor; then in 1953, at age 15, became the television host and producer of his own Saturday night teen music show Rucker’s Rumpus Room, first on WKBN-TV, then, until 1957, on WFMJ. Arriving in Manhattan in 1957, he worked first as an NBC page, then as a production assistant on the troubled quiz show Twenty-One, the events at which were recreated in the 1994 film Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford.
Comments OffAlan Armer-Producer
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Born July 5, 1922, Los Angeles, CA
Alan Armer died on December 5, 2010, at the age of 88 , of colon cancer at his Century City, California home.
Alan Armer started his entertainment career at a radio station in San Jose where he worked as an announcer. After moving back to Los Angeles in search of a radio job, Armer began working at an advertising agency that specialized in television ads. In that role, Armer later wrote, acted in, directed, narrated and edited television commercials. From there, Armer and a relative by marriage Walter Grauman developed their own television show, Lights, Camera, Action, which aired on NBC affiliate KNBH for three years. He later was hired by the station as a floor manager and then director. He later went on to 20th Century Fox, where he wrote, produced and directed several television series, including My Friend Flicka and Broken Arrow.
Comments OffHillard Elkins
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Born October 18, 1929, Brooklyn, New York.
Hillard (Hilly) Elkins died on December 1, 2010, at age 81 in Los Angeles, California
Hillard Elkins turned to Broadway theater producing in 1962 with the Garson Kanin play Come on Strong. The following year, he saw former client Sammy Davis, Jr. performing at the Prince of Wales Theater in London, and approached him about starring in a musical version of Clifford Odets‘ Golden Boy. When Davis expressed interest, Elkins lured Odets out of semi-retirement to write the book (revised by William Gibson when Odets died) and hired Strouse and Adams to compose the score. The 1964 Broadway production, directed by Arthur Penn, earned him Tony Award nominations for Best Musical and Best Producer of a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include Oh! Calcutta!, The Rothschilds, and Hedda Gabler and A Doll’s House, the latter two with his then-wife Claire Bloom (they married in 1969 and divorced in 1972).
Comments OffAlfred Masini
Filed under: Producer — Tags: Alfred Masini — admin @ 1:50 pmBorn January 5, 1930, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Alfred Masini died at the age of 80, 
of melanoma in Honolulu, Hawaii.
His production company created and produced Entertainment Tonight, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Solid Gold. and Star Search. He lobbied to change Hawaii state law to lure movie and TV productions to the islands. He landed Baywatch Hawaii, which filmed for three seasons in Hawaii. He brought the Miss Universe 1998 Pageant to the Stan Sheriff Arena. The broadcast was shown around the world.
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