Ron Gilbert Dies: TV & Film Producer And David Susskind’s Partner In Powerhouse Talent Associates Ltd Was 87

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Ron Gilbert Dies: TV & Film Producer And David Susskind’s Partner In Powerhouse Talent Associates Ltd Was 87

Ron Gilbert died of heart failure December 4 at his Los Angeles home. He was 87.

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Ron Gilbert, an Emmy-nominated producer and partner with David Susskind in the indie production company Talent Associates Ltd that was behind TV series like Get Smart and movies including Straw Dogs and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died of heart failure December 4 at his Los Angeles home. He was 87.

Talent Associates was a major force in the 1960s and ’70s, producing series including East Side, West Side starring George C. Scott, NYPD, The Glass Menagerie starring Katharine Hepburn, Eleanor and Franklin, Blind Ambition starring Martin Sheen and Get Smart. Gilbert served as executive in charge of production on several shows including Get Smart, the spy comedy that was hatched in the mid-1960s at the then New York-based company by two of its young writers, Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. It premiered on NBC in 1965, ran five seasons and established Talent Associates’ L.A. base.