Herman Rush, a distinguished tv pioneer and former president of Columbia Footage Tv, died of pure causes in Los Angeles on Dec. 12. He was 94.
Rush received his begin within the tv business in 1951 as a salesman at Official Movies. In 1957, he acquired tv syndication agency Flamingo Movies, which he became a serious unbiased syndication firm. Rush additionally had an intensive profession as head of the expertise division on the company Inventive Administration Associates, the place he labored from 1960-1971.
Within the late Nineteen Sixties, Rush acquired the favored British sitcom “Until Dying To Us Half” from Lord Lew Grade. He bought the mental property to the late tv titan Norman Lear, who turned that present into “All within the Household.” The hit sitcom starring Caroll O’Connor ran for 9 seasons on CBS. Rush additionally imported, repackaged and produced a number of BBC comedy tv collection together with “For the Love of Ada” and “Love Thy Neighbor.” He additionally produced the Americanized pilots of “Dad’s Military” (which grew to become “The Rear Guard” within the U.S.”) and “Are You Being Served” (“The Beans of Boston” within the U.S.), amongst others.
Rush independently packaged and produced made-for-television motion pictures and comedy collection for ABC between 1971 and 1975. In 1979, Rush served as president of Marble Arch Tv, earlier than becoming a member of Columbia Footage as president of Columbia Footage Tv Group.
At Columbia, Rush oversaw the manufacturing of a couple of hundred hours of films and mini-series for tv. He put greater than a dozen collection on air, together with “Ripley’s Imagine It or Not,” “Mike Hammer” and “Designing Ladies.” Amongst different accomplishments on the firm, he acquired the library of Spelling-Goldberg, which included “Fantasy Island,” “Charlies Angels,” “T.J. Hooker” and “Hart to Hart.” He additionally oversaw Columbia’s ventures associated to first run syndication.
Rush was an government producer of the speak present “The Montel Williams Present” for 17 years; he additionally government produced “The American Pink Cross Emergency Take a look at” starring John Ritter and “A Person Information to Planet Earth: The American Setting Take a look at” starring Tom Selleck.
Rush was acknowledged by business teams together with the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters and The Caucus for Writers, Producers and Administrators.
Rush was married to his spouse Joan, who died in October, for greater than 72 years. That they had two kids, Mandie and Jim.
