Dale Sheets, a television pioneer and a manager for some of the top names in music, died on Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure at age 91. His death was confirmed by longtime family friend and former business associate Rob Wilcox.
Sheets held many key entertainment industry roles during his 70-year career. An executive with McA Universal Chairman Lew Wasserman, Sheets became the personal manager of such musical artists as Mel Tormé, Vic Damone, Patti Page, Jack Jones, the Four Freshmen and George Shearing.
Sheets’ first client was Tormé, who he engaged with a handshake on a flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles.
Sheets focused on promoting Tormé’s gifts as a jazz artist, and booked him to perform for jazz venues, including the iconic Newport Jazz Festival and the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. After “The Velvet Fog” signed a deal with Concord Jazz Records, he made...
Sheets held many key entertainment industry roles during his 70-year career. An executive with McA Universal Chairman Lew Wasserman, Sheets became the personal manager of such musical artists as Mel Tormé, Vic Damone, Patti Page, Jack Jones, the Four Freshmen and George Shearing.
Sheets’ first client was Tormé, who he engaged with a handshake on a flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles.
Sheets focused on promoting Tormé’s gifts as a jazz artist, and booked him to perform for jazz venues, including the iconic Newport Jazz Festival and the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. After “The Velvet Fog” signed a deal with Concord Jazz Records, he made...
- 12/10/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Dale Sheets, the onetime right-hand man for Lew Wasserman at McA and Universal who went on to serve as the personal manager for such singers as Mel Tormé, Vic Damone and Patti Page, has died. He was 91.
Sheets died Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure, his longtime family friend and former business associate Rob Wilcox announced.
In 1954, Sheets was working at United Television Programs when the company was acquired by McA, and Wasserman became his boss. A year later, at age 25, he was the youngest vice president in McA history.
“It didn’t take me ...
Sheets died Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure, his longtime family friend and former business associate Rob Wilcox announced.
In 1954, Sheets was working at United Television Programs when the company was acquired by McA, and Wasserman became his boss. A year later, at age 25, he was the youngest vice president in McA history.
“It didn’t take me ...
- 12/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Dale Sheets, the onetime right-hand man for Lew Wasserman at McA and Universal who went on to serve as the personal manager for such singers as Mel Tormé, Vic Damone and Patti Page, has died. He was 91.
Sheets died Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure, his longtime family friend and former business associate Rob Wilcox announced.
In 1954, Sheets was working at United Television Programs when the company was acquired by McA, and Wasserman became his boss. A year later, at age 25, he was the youngest vice president in McA history.
“It didn’t take me ...
Sheets died Monday in Los Angeles of heart failure, his longtime family friend and former business associate Rob Wilcox announced.
In 1954, Sheets was working at United Television Programs when the company was acquired by McA, and Wasserman became his boss. A year later, at age 25, he was the youngest vice president in McA history.
“It didn’t take me ...
- 12/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Joan Staley, the film, TV and stage actress whose memorable film roles included opposite Don Knotts in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, alongside Elvis Presley in Roustabout, and on TV in series including Perry Mason and 77 Sunset Strip, died November 24. She was 79.
Her first husband, onetime TV director Chuck Staley, announced the news on social media earlier this week. She had been married to Hollywood talent manager Dale Sheets since 1967.
Staley, born in Minneapolis to missionary parents, grew up in Los Angeles and was an accomplished violinist as a child, which led to her first film credit, the 1948 Bing Crosby-Joan Fontaine pic The Emperor Waltz. That led to roles at The Little Theater in Hollywood and small parts on live series like Playhouse 90. In 1958, she made the first of four appearances on Perry Mason, and that same year was Miss November in Playboy.
Her early TV credits also included The Untouchables,...
Her first husband, onetime TV director Chuck Staley, announced the news on social media earlier this week. She had been married to Hollywood talent manager Dale Sheets since 1967.
Staley, born in Minneapolis to missionary parents, grew up in Los Angeles and was an accomplished violinist as a child, which led to her first film credit, the 1948 Bing Crosby-Joan Fontaine pic The Emperor Waltz. That led to roles at The Little Theater in Hollywood and small parts on live series like Playhouse 90. In 1958, she made the first of four appearances on Perry Mason, and that same year was Miss November in Playboy.
Her early TV credits also included The Untouchables,...
- 11/29/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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