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Lee Gabler, Talent Agent and Former CAA Co-Chair, Dies at 84
Lee Gabler, talent agent and former co-chairman and managing partner at Creative Artists Agency, has died. He was 84.
Lee Gabler, a talent agent and former co-chairman and managing partner at Creative Artists Agency, died June 3 in Los Angeles after suffering a brain injury. Gabler and his division represented Aaron Spelling, for whom he negotiated deals for “Beverly Hills 90210” and “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 producers. Other titles that Gabler covered during his time at ICM and CAA included “Taxi,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Tales from the Crypt,” “Moonlighting,” “ALF,” “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “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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