Louis Robert Wasserman Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lewis Robert "Lew" Wasserman (March 22, 1913 – June 3, 2002) was an American talent agent and studio executive, sometimes credited with creating and later taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades. He was also the manager of MCA.
[In 1960 to his diver as they hear Ted Williams hit a home run in his last Major League at bat] At age forty-four, Ted Williams is an old man for baseball, and at forty I'm an old man for the agency business. [Despite his words, Wasseman was forty-seven at the time.]
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The greatest art in Hollywood is just talk. I have never made a deal at a party. I can't tell you how many times clients have called me in the morning and said, 'I promised so-and-so at a party last night to do a movie for him. Please get me out of it.' When I do it, I am accused by the studio of all sorts of things. That I am favoring another studio. that I talked the client out of doing a part he wanted to do. That I enjoy being ruthless.
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Fact
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According to Wasserman biographer Dennis McDougal, Eddie Clayton is quoted as stating, "Tony Curtis was a pro-Wasserman man. Lew loved him like he was his son, and Curtis was always very protective and loving toward him.".
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Received a star on Hollywod Blvd. October 5th 2007. The star is located right outside the box-office of Chinese Theatre.
Chairman and CEO of MCA (Music Corporation of America), the parent of Universal Studios, until 1990 when it was sold to Matsushita for $6.6 billion. Wasserman made an estimated $350 million from the sale, and was retained as a manager. When Seagram bought MCA in 1995, he retired from management, but remained on the board of directors until 1998.
After MCA bought Universal Studios, federal regulators forced Wasserman to dissolve MCA's agency wing because it was representing performers as their agent while its production company was hiring them; this violated anti-trust laws. [1962]
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A longtime friend of Republican Ronald Reagan, he was nevertheless a committed member of the Democratic party and one of Bill Clinton's earliest backers.
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Loose Tooth
1997
Short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Last Mogul
2005
TV Special documentary
Himself
UCLA & Los Angeles: A Legacy of Leadership
1998
Short
Himself
The 1996 Annual Lucy Awards
1996
TV Special
Himself - Winner
The American Ireland Fund Annual Tribute a Salute to Gene Kelly
1990
TV Movie
Himself
The Grand Opening of Universal Studios New Theme Park Attraction Gala
1990
TV Movie
Himself - Speaker
Citizen Steve
1987
Documentary short
Himself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock
1979
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The 46th Annual Academy Awards
1974
TV Special
Himself - Hersholt Award Recipient
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The 75th Annual Academy Awards
2003
TV Special
Himself - (Memorial Tribute)
Reputations
1999
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Universal Story
1995
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2007
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Motion Picture
Awarded posthumously on October 5, 2007 at 6925 Hollywood Blvd. to grandson Casey Wasserman on ... More
1997
Lifetime Achievement Award
Publicists Guild of America
1975
DGA Honorary Life Member Award
Directors Guild of America, USA
1974
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Academy Awards, USA
1974
Showmanship Award
Publicists Guild of America
Motion Picture
Known for movies
Citizen Steve (1987) as Himself
The Last Mogul (2005) as Himself
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Alfred Hitchcock (1979) as Himself
UCLA & Los Angeles: A Legacy of Leadership (1998) as Himself
$4 Million
