Talent agent Sam Cohn, 79
NEW YORK - Sam Cohn, a powerful talent agent for some of Hollywood and Broadway's biggest stars as well as a pantheon of directors, writers and playwrights, died Wednesday. He was 79.
NEW YORK - Sam Cohn, a powerful talent agent for some of Hollywood and Broadway's biggest stars as well as a pantheon of directors, writers and playwrights, died Wednesday. He was 79.
Cohn's clients at International Creative Management, which he co-founded, were a who's who of show business, most prominently in the 1970s and '80s.
They included Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Lily Tomlin, Kathleen Turner, Vanessa Redgrave, Arthur Miller, Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, Robert Altman, Bob Fosse, Sigourney Weaver, E.L. Doctorow and Jackie Gleason.
Cohn graduated from Princeton and Yale Law School. He began his career in television, working for CBS in its business affairs department.
After a stint with a law firm, he joined General Artists Corp., which merged with Creative Management Associates before helping to form ICM. *