George Litto
- December 9, 1930
- April 29, 2019
- 88 years
- aortic stenosis
About George Litto
George Litto, 88, American film producer and talent agent, complications from aortic stenosis.
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|George Litto (December 9, 1930 – April 29, 2019) was an American film producer and talent agent. His production credits included Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974), Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge (1979), and three Brian De Palma films, Obsession (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981).
Biography
Litto was born in Philadelphia, and graduated with a business degree from Temple University. He worked as an assistant at William Morris Agency in 1954, eventually repping Mae West.
In 1965, he started his own agency in Los Angeles, where he specialized in repping screenwriters who had previously been blacklisted. His clients included Waldo Salt, Dalton Trumbo, Ring Lardner Jr., Michael Wilson, Abraham Polonsky, Joseph Losey, Arnold Perl and Hawaii Five-O creator Leonard Freeman. In the following decade, he repped both Robert Altman and Brian De Palma, and would become a producer for their films.
Litto died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from aortic stenosis. He was survived by his ex-wife and two daughters.
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