George Litto, a longtime Hollywood talent agent who represented blacklisted writers and collaborated with Melvin Van Peeples and Ossie Davis, has died. He was 88.
Litto passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on April 29 from complications of aortic stenosis, his daughter and business partner, Andria Litto, told Deadline.
George Litto started in the mailroom at William Morris New York in 1954, and worked his way up to an agent, booking summer stock theatre. Among his early successes was helping Mae West secure a role in Come On Up (Ring Twice).
There would be many other famous clients when he moved to boutique agencies in Los Angeles before opening The George Litto Agency in the mid-1960s.
Litto represented Mel Davenport, aka Waldo Salt, who at the time was working in New York under his pseudonym because he was blacklisted. George put him to work under his own name on the film, Midnight Cowboy (1969).
Soon after,...
Litto passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on April 29 from complications of aortic stenosis, his daughter and business partner, Andria Litto, told Deadline.
George Litto started in the mailroom at William Morris New York in 1954, and worked his way up to an agent, booking summer stock theatre. Among his early successes was helping Mae West secure a role in Come On Up (Ring Twice).
There would be many other famous clients when he moved to boutique agencies in Los Angeles before opening The George Litto Agency in the mid-1960s.
Litto represented Mel Davenport, aka Waldo Salt, who at the time was working in New York under his pseudonym because he was blacklisted. George put him to work under his own name on the film, Midnight Cowboy (1969).
Soon after,...
- 5/8/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
George Litto, a former talent agent who represented the likes of Robert Altman, Dalton Trumbo and Waldo Salt before producing the Brian De Palma films Obsession, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out, has died. He was 88.
Litto died April 29 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from aortic stenosis, his daughter Andria Litto announced.
Litto packaged creative elements for M*A*S*H (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Nashville (1975), all directed by Altman, and Hang 'Em High (1968) and Play Misty for Me (1971), both starring Clint Eastwood, as well as other notable films like ...
Litto died April 29 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from aortic stenosis, his daughter Andria Litto announced.
Litto packaged creative elements for M*A*S*H (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Nashville (1975), all directed by Altman, and Hang 'Em High (1968) and Play Misty for Me (1971), both starring Clint Eastwood, as well as other notable films like ...
George Litto, a former talent agent who represented the likes of Robert Altman, Dalton Trumbo and Waldo Salt before producing the Brian De Palma films Obsession, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out, has died. He was 88.
Litto died April 29 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from aortic stenosis, his daughter Andria Litto announced.
Litto packaged creative elements for M*A*S*H (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Nashville (1975), all directed by Altman, and Hang 'Em High (1968) and Play Misty for Me (1971), both starring Clint Eastwood, as well as other notable films like ...
Litto died April 29 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from aortic stenosis, his daughter Andria Litto announced.
Litto packaged creative elements for M*A*S*H (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Nashville (1975), all directed by Altman, and Hang 'Em High (1968) and Play Misty for Me (1971), both starring Clint Eastwood, as well as other notable films like ...
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