Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the indie production company Talent Associates Ltd that was behind TV series like Get Smart and movies including Straw Dogs and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died of heart failure December 4 at his Los Angeles home. He was 87.
Talent Associates was a major force in the 1960s and ’70s, producing series including East Side, West Side starring George C. Scott, NYPD, The Glass Menagerie starring Katharine Hepburn, Eleanor and Franklin, Blind Ambition starring Martin Sheen and Get Smart. Gilbert served as executive in charge of production on several shows including Get Smart, the spy comedy that was hatched in the mid-1960s at the then New York-based company by two of its young writers, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. It premiered on NBC in 1965, ran five seasons and established Talent Associates’ L.A. base.
On the feature side, Talent Associates produced Straw Dogs,...
Talent Associates was a major force in the 1960s and ’70s, producing series including East Side, West Side starring George C. Scott, NYPD, The Glass Menagerie starring Katharine Hepburn, Eleanor and Franklin, Blind Ambition starring Martin Sheen and Get Smart. Gilbert served as executive in charge of production on several shows including Get Smart, the spy comedy that was hatched in the mid-1960s at the then New York-based company by two of its young writers, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. It premiered on NBC in 1965, ran five seasons and established Talent Associates’ L.A. base.
On the feature side, Talent Associates produced Straw Dogs,...
- 12/8/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the powerhouse independent production company Talent Associates, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said. He was 87.
Gilbert joined Talent Associates in the early 1960s, and during his stay there the company produced such groundbreaking TV series as Get Smart, East Side/West Side and N.Y.P.D.; features including Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (1971), Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) and Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976); and such miniseries as 1973’s The Glass ...
Gilbert joined Talent Associates in the early 1960s, and during his stay there the company produced such groundbreaking TV series as Get Smart, East Side/West Side and N.Y.P.D.; features including Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (1971), Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) and Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976); and such miniseries as 1973’s The Glass ...
- 12/8/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the powerhouse independent production company Talent Associates, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said. He was 87.
Gilbert joined Talent Associates in the early 1960s, and during his stay there the company produced such groundbreaking TV series as Get Smart, East Side/West Side and N.Y.P.D.; features including Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (1971), Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) and Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976); and such miniseries as 1973’s The Glass ...
Gilbert joined Talent Associates in the early 1960s, and during his stay there the company produced such groundbreaking TV series as Get Smart, East Side/West Side and N.Y.P.D.; features including Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (1971), Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) and Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976); and such miniseries as 1973’s The Glass ...
- 12/8/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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