Herman Rush, a veteran tv producer finest recognized for licensing Until Loss of life Us Do Half, the UK sitcom that Norman Lear became All within the Household, died Dec. 12 at 94 of pure causes in Los Angeles, in accordance with a number of information stories.
Rush started his profession in 1951, working in gross sales for Official Movie. He later bought Flamingo Movies, a tv syndication agency, rising it into a serious unbiased syndication firm.
Up into the Seventies, Rush was with Inventive Administration Associates because the president of the tv division, enjoying a task within the company’s entry into tv packaging. A few of the exhibits he was positioned on networks included The Perry Como Present, The Jackie Gleason Present, The Kraft Music Corridor and The Hollywood Palace.
H additionally represented producer Irwin Allen for TV hits Voyage to the Backside of the Sea, Misplaced In House, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants.
Within the late ’60s, Rush acquired properties from Britisher Lord Lew Grade. Considered one of them was the favored sitcom Until Loss of life Us Do Half, which was later shopped to Norman Lear, who turned it into All within the Household.
In 1980, he was named president of Columbia Footage Tv Group, placing greater than a dozen sequence on air, together with Ripley’s Imagine It or Not, Mike Hammer and Designing Girls.
He additionally created Katz/Rush Leisure with Raymond Katz, which produced The New Authentic Newbie Hour, The Susan Powter Present, Miss America: Behind The Crown and Nite Cap.
Rush is survived by kids Mandie and Jim.
