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Harris Katleman, whose executive positions successful tv had him overseeing nan improvement of specified classical bid arsenic The Simpsons, CHiPS, Medical Center, The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father, In Living Color, Doogie Howser, M.D. and NYPD Blue, died of earthy causes successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday, July 8. He was 97.
His decease was announced by family.
Born successful Omaha connected August 19, 1928, Katleman moved pinch his family to Beverly Hills astatine nan property of 8 and astatine 19 near UCLA to subordinate MCA Artists arsenic an “office boy.” Four years later, Katleman, a protége of Lew Wasserman, was selected to caput nan Television Department successful New York wherever he reorganized nan cognition and is credited pinch quadrupling nan business.
Over nan people of his tenure astatine MCA, Katleman represented talent specified arsenic Jackie Gleason and was progressive successful signing Clark Gable and Howard Keel.
Katleman near MCA to subordinate Goodson-Todman Productions, initiating 4 web series: The Web, The Rebel, Branded, and The Richard Boone Repertory Theatre. During this time, Harris besides packaged and executive produced 2 theatrical releases – Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966) and Broken Sabres (1965) – nether a associated task betwixt Goodson-Todman and Columbia Pictures.
Katleman moved connected to go President of MGM Television and Senior Vice President of MGM, Inc. He was instrumental successful processing How The West Was Won, Babe, CHiPS, Medical Center, and The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father. He resigned successful 1977 to motorboat Bennett Katleman Productions astatine Columbia Pictures and helped motorboat nan NBC miniseries From Here To Eternity and nan ABC bid Salvage 1.
In 1980, Katleman was named President/CEO of Twentieth Century Fox Television. In summation to overseeing accumulation connected nan last 4 years of M*A*S*H and Trapper John, M.D., Katleman developed and sold L.A. Law, The Simpsons, Anything But Love, In Living Color, Doogie Howser, M.D., Civil Wars, NYPD Blue, Hooperman, The Tracey Ullman Show and Mr. Belvedere.
Katleman was a personnel of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and served a two-year word arsenic President of nan Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He besides sat connected nan Board of Governors for nan Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and served connected nan Board of Directors of Brentwood Country Club and The Lakes Country Club successful Palm Desert.
Katleman’s memoir You Can’t Fall Off nan Floor was published successful 2018 by RosettaBooks.
Preceded successful decease by his parents and a sister, Katleman is survived by children Steve, Michael and Lisa Sherman arsenic good arsenic 7 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
