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May 30, 2012 · Lee Rich, the creative force behind Lorimar Productions, an independent studio that spawned two of television’s most enduring (and archetypally opposite) fictional American families — the poor...
May 25, 2012 · Lee Rich, the Emmy-winning TV and film executive who produced such shows as "The Waltons," "Eight Is Enough" and "Dallas," has died. He was 93. Rich, who was also the former chairman and chief...
Lee Rich. Producer: Hard to Kill. Lee Rich was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a banker and his wife. He graduated from the University of Ohio in Athens with a marketing degree. During World War II Mr. Rich served in the United States Navy reaching the rank of Lieutenant. Mr. Rich began his career in advertising as an office boy at Lord & Thomas in ...
May 26, 2012 · Lee Rich, co-founder and former president of Lorimar Productions, died Thursday of lung cancer at his home in Los Angeles, a Warner Bros. spokesman confirmed. He was 93.
In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Lee Rich (1927-2012) talks about starting out in television at the advertising agency Benton & Bowles, where he worked to package and sell The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Danny Thomas Show.
In 1965, the company, along with Lee Rich started Mirisch-Rich Television Productions, with the intent to produce shows for network television and it maintains headquarters in the Samuel Goldwyn Studios. [5] Rich left in 1967 and it was soon renamed Mirisch Television Productions. [6]
Lee Rich is known as an Executive Producer and Producer. Some of his work includes The Score, Passenger 57, Hard to Kill, Just Cause, Desperate Measures, Innocent Blood, Dallas, and Gloria.
