Jerry Bick, 81; Hollywood Producer and Book Collector
LA Times
Jerry Bick, 81, who produced Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye” and Jonathan Demme’s “Swing Shift,” died Monday in Los Angeles of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Born in New York, Bick graduated from the University of Georgia, where he taught English, and studied at the Sorbonne after serving in the Navy during World War II. After a stint as an MGM publicist in New York, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as an agent with MCA, Goldstone/Tobias and the Kurt Frings Agency. He also had his own Jerry Bick Agency, marketing books for such authors as Jim Thompson and Daniel Mainwaring.
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