Friday, February 10, 2012

Philip Kellogg dies at 99

Philip Kellogg, former Hollywood producer and William Morris Talent Agency movie mind, died February. 5 in Beverly Hillsides of natural causes. He was 99, per month from his 100th birthday. From 1950 to 1977, Kellogg labored in the William Morris Agency as veep responsible for the world film department and director of European procedures. His clientele incorporated thesps Angela Lansbury, Sophia Loren, Karl Malden, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Shelley Winters and Natalie Wood. Younger crowd repped helmers David Lean, Mike Peckinpah, Sydney Pollack and Fred Zinnemann. Kellogg was created to Rob Murray Kellogg and Diquita Irwin in Provo, Utah on March 17, 1912, and gone to live in Los Angeles like a baby. In 1933, he received a b -.A. in political science at UCLA, where he performed around the basketball team and offered as student body leader. For his first professional job, Kellogg authored like a special features author for Hearst newspapers and magazines. He forged personal associations with William Randolph Hearst in L.A. and San Simeon. Before his career like a Hollywood agent, Kellogg labored like a personal assistant to Irving G. Thalberg of MGM within the nineteen thirties and subsequently like a film editor for Warner Bros. His career like a repetition began within the nineteen forties for Berg-Allenberg Agency, which in 1950 merged in to the William Morris Agency. Kellogg is made it by his wife Anna, five children and five grandchildren. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

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