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Sylvia Gold, a longtime TV talent supplier astatine ICM who repped Mayim Bialik, Tony Danza, Susan Lucci, John Ritter and galore different TV stars, has died. A friend and erstwhile workfellow told Deadline that Gold died January 3 of bosom nonaccomplishment successful Los Angeles but did not supply her property aliases a origin of death.
During her agelong intermezo manufacture profession that began successful nan mid-1960s, Gold represented specified tv greats specified arsenic Bialik, Danza, Lucci, Ritter, Judith Light, Adam Arkin, Rue McClanahan, Lindsay Wagner, and Charlie’s Angels stars Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd.
Watch The Golden Girls star McClanahan name-check Gold to commencement a funny communicative from a 2006 question and reply pinch nan Television Foundation astir really nan character astir was formed arsenic Rose alternatively than Blanche connected that classical 1985-92 NBC sitcom:
Born successful Brighton Beach, NY, Gold began her profession arsenic a footwear model, later moving to Los Angeles to subordinate her brother, Oscar-nominated The Naked Spur writer and Emergency! series creator Harold Jack Bloom. Soon aft her presence successful 1965, she launched her profession arsenic a caput to Ina Bernstein astatine Ashley-Famous (later known arsenic International Famous Agency). It wasn’t agelong earlier she was promoted to supplier and began making her people successful nan talent practice field.
In 1975, Gold joined nan recently formed talent agency International Creative Management, wherever she roseate to President of Television Talent and worked until her retirement. Later renamed ICM Partners aft a guidance buyout, nan agency was acquired by CAA successful 2022.
In a 2005 question and reply with TV Week, ICM’s then-EVP and Head of Worldwide Television Robert Levinson said, “Sylvia Gold ever said to me, ‘There tin only beryllium 1 star, and it amended beryllium nan 1 who’s paying you.'”
She is survived by a nephew, 3 daughters-in-law and six grandchildren.
