Sherry Robb, literary agent, director of talents and producer whose career lasted more than five decades of publishing, television and cinema, has died. She was 81 years old.
Robb, who has fought against congestive heart disease for two decades, died on February 14. A commemorative service was set at 1:30 p.m. on June 9 at the Hollywood Forever cemetery.
Robb helped provide Robert Graysmith’s publication ZodiacThe true book of 1986 on non -resolved series murders in San Francisco in the late 1960s who inspired David Fincher Zodiac (2007), with Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo.
She also played an essential role in launching the scripting career of Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica,, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), selling its first two scripts to paramount.
Based on an idea that Robb developed by listening to Betty White to talk about how her animals have helped her recover from the loss of her husband, Password The host Allen Ludden, she came LoveA 1983 book that launched the literary career of the beloved actress.
She was also a guiding force behind Mary Wilson’s book in 1986, Dreamgirl: My life as supremeOne of the best -selling musical autobiographies in history.
The singer and White were only two of the 100 authors for the first time that Robb guided during her long career.
After obtaining a baccalaureate of Whittier College and a master’s degree in social work from Smith College, Sherry Ann Robb became therapist at the General Hospital of Massachusetts in Boston and teacher at Boston State College, Toft University and the University of Massachusetts.
She worked for five years in New York for a large publishing company, then teamed up with Bart Andrews, who had written a 1976 book on televisions I love LucyTo train a literary company, the Andrews & Robb agency in 1981.
She separated with Andrews in 1989 and to launch her own business, AFH Talent Agency, then founded the company ROBB CO., a management company of the store dedicated to the representation of actors and writers, in 2003.
In 2020, she co -founded the Robb Squad Film Co. alongside director Marc Martinez and produced the feature film of 2024 The memory in my heartWho realized his dream of highlighting his list of talents thanks to original content.
Indked in the temple of renown of personal managers in 2019, Robb was also a judge for the window of the UCLA script competition and consulted for the Masters film program at the USC.
