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Lee Gabler Dies: Former CAA Co-Chair And Legendary Talent Agent Was 84
Lee Gabler, the talent agent and former co-chairman and managing partner at Creative Artists Agency who orchestrated pioneering television deals, died June 3 in Los Angeles of a brain injury. He was 84 years old. His death was announced by a Sony Pictures rep. Gabler’s began his career in the early 1960s in the mailroom […]
Gabler and the division represented Aaron Spelling, for whom he orchestrated deals for Beverly Hills 90210 a nd Melrose Place; Paul Junger Witt, Susan Harris and Tony Thomas’ Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions; Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment; Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners; Jerry Bruckheimer, John Wells, and many other prolific producers. Additional titles that Gabler helped shepherd to success during his time with ICM and CAA include perennial classics such as Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White Shadow, Tales from the Crypt, and Moonlighting. Gabler’s work continued to bring the most popular and critically acclaimed shows of all-time to television, including ALF, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Northern Exposure, The West Wing, House, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Band of Brothers, Mad Men, 24, Sex and the City(with ICM), and Everybody Loves Raymond.
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