Adelson was an industry titan who produced some of the most well-known television shows during the 1970s … CBS CEO Les Moonves told the Hollywood Reporter that the industry leader was "a wonderful boss and mentor. Merv Adelson, the Lorimar co-founder who produced some of TV’s biggest hits of the 1970s and 80s, has died at 85. Link to Wikipedia biography. Ms. Walters, the celebrity television journalist, whom he married in 1986 and divorced in 1992, was his third wife. Barbara Walters, the celebrity journalist, was Merv Adelson’s third wife. There, in the early 1950s, when he was still in his 20s, Mr. Adelson built the city’s first 24-hour supermarkets. Relationships. Since then I’ve always had people do things for me. We will remove this and make the changes needed. He pursued girls as a teenager with his friend Robert Wagner, who later became a successful actor, and played baseball in high school. Mr. Adelson was married and divorced four times. Though he told Vanity Fair that his father was a Russian immigrant, census records say that both his father, Nathan, and his mother, the former Pearl Swartz, were born in Nebraska and that their parents were from Russia. He was 85. He also became a friend and something of a protégé of the mobster Moe Dalitz, who helped Mr. Adelson and Mr. Molasky secure financing for the hospital, which opened in the late 1950s and is now called Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. spouse relationship with Walters, Barbara (born 25 September 1929). Miller explained that she now has higher standards for projects than she once did. Death: September 08, 2015 (85) Canoga Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States (Stroke) Immediate Family: That was great. But there were many more failures, and the movie side of the business foundered. I didn’t want to know the answer,” he told the magazine. Lorimar produced some successful films, including “Being There” — the 1979 adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s deadpan satire about a dimwitted gardener, played by Peter Sellers, who becomes an adviser to the president — and “An Officer and a Gentleman,” the 1982 romantic drama starring Richard Gere as a Navy aviator candidate and Debra Winger as his girlfriend. It’s so great! Merv passed away of cause of death on month day 2015, at age 85 at death place, California. The obituary was featured in Los Angeles Times on September 11, 2015, and Legacy on September 11, 2015. “We stayed friends long after our marriage.”. The cause was complications of cancer, said Melanie Sese, a spokeswoman for Irwin Molasky, Mr. Adelson’s former business partner. He did it all and he did it his way. American Producer. The company merged with syndicator Telepictures in 1985, and the whole company was sold to Warner Bros. in 1989 for $1.2 billion. If you aren't doing this already, you should start. You just signed a contract when you shook my hand. Merv Adelson, well-known producer of hit shows like "Knots Landing," "The Waltons" and "Dallas" has died. Now I pay my own bills. + 2. Notes: 1981-1984; Events. In a lengthy article in Vanity Fair in 2013, Mr. Adelson said his relationship with Mr. Dalitz was “very, very close” but hard to explain. News confirms the professional dancer has filed for divorce from the retired hockey pro. He was 85. Merv Adelson, a real estate and resort developer who pivoted to become one of television’s most successful producers in a roller-coaster life involving the mob, the Teamsters’ pension fund, a marriage to Barbara Walters and a huge fortune made and lost, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. CBS CEO Leslie Moonves remembers the mogul as “a wonderful boss and mentor. They saved The Waltons from cancelation with an ad buy that persuaded CBS boss William Paley to hang on to the show. The Real's Jeannie Mai was diagnosed with inflammatory condition epiglottitis and will need to leave Dancing With the Stars. Mr. Adelson, a co-founder and former chairman of Lorimar, the once-prolific independent producer of television and movies, was known as a personable, big-thinking risk-taker, and a world-class schmoozer who knew just about everybody. He was 85. The money — some of it, at least — came from the pension fund of the Teamsters union, and Mr. Dalitz, who died in 1989, tapped the same source to help finance Rancho La Costa, a luxury resort in Carlsbad, Calif. (now Omni La Costa Resort & Spa). 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Following the acquisition, Adelson became the vice chairman at Warners until 1991. He was 85. He was 85. Save a ridiculous $350 and look forward to holiday viewing with this stunning 65-inch TV. (The 1930 census spelled his first name Mervin; in 1940, it was Mervyn, and so it appears in later references.) “Well, we did a deal once,” Mr. Adelson said. But I’ve learned to do so much on my own. Young Merv worked in the family grocery as a boy, and, as the business expanded, he made deliveries into neighborhoods where the stars lived. The company’s first major hit was The Waltons, which premiered in 1972. A string of other hits followed The Waltons — Dallas, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, Eight Is Enough — so many in fact that Lorimar was nicknamed the fifth network. Throughout this period, Adelson and partner Molasky were dogged with rumors of mob ties, and Adelson later admitted in a 2013 Vanity Fair profile to being friends with the “Godfather of Las Vegas,” Moe Dalitz.
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