Richard Kahn, a former president and longtime governor of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences who additionally had an extended profession in movie publicity and advertising, died April 5 in Los Angeles, the Academy introduced. He was 95.
“All of us on the Academy are deeply saddened to study of Richard’s passing,” CEO Invoice Kramer and President Janet Yang stated in an announcement. “Richard was a faithful member of the Academy and the movie neighborhood at giant.”
Kahn was elected the twenty sixth president of the Academy in August 1988, succeeding Robert Clever, and served one time period. He additionally served 12 years as an Academy governor. He beforehand had been elected to 5 phrases as Vice President and one as Secretary throughout his tenure. He was a member of the Advertising and Public Relations Department of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences since 1964 and served on its Department Govt Committee for 15 years.
“Throughout his time on the board, each as our President and as a governor for a few years, he performed an important position in establishing traditions that stay at this time,” Kramer and Yang added. “His imaginative and prescient and management depart an indelible mark. He remained a pal to so many, and our ideas are together with his household at the moment.”
Kahn helped launch many initiatives on the Academy, together with the its new member receptions, which now are held yearly throughout the globe. He additionally headed the Public Relations Coordinating Committee, which created the Academy’s first Nominees Luncheon in 1982.
From left: Johnny Goodman, Richard Kahn and Peter Noble in 1988 (Getty Photos)
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Throughout a profession that spanned six many years, he had stints in advertising at Columbia Footage and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, engaged on such traditional movies as The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Weapons of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Humorous Woman, Oliver!, The Sunshine Boys, Community and Conflict of the Titans.
Born on August 19, 1929, in New Rochelle, NY, Kahn started a two-decade tenure at Columbia Footage following his commencement from the College of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Faculty and repair as a U.S. Navy officer through the Korean Conflict. He joined MGM in 1975, rising to president of MGM Worldwide and later EVP Advertising for the mixed MGM and United Artists after its 1981 acquisition.
In 1983, Kahn launched a movie advertising consultancy together with his spouse, Marianne Kahn, and served as an adjunct professor at USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program till 1989. He additionally led the Movie Info Council as government chairman from 1985-95 and served on the board of the Will Rogers Memorial Fund from 1987-2001. In 2000, he obtained Key Artwork Pioneer Award from our sister publication The Hollywood Reporter for his artistic contributions to the leisure trade.
He appeared additionally appeared within the documentaries Backbone Tingler! The William Citadel Story (2000) and Inside: Physician Strangelove (2007).
“Our Dad had a form and beneficiant soul, a wry humorousness and was a beautiful father. We are going to miss him dearly,” his daughters Sharon Kahn and Lisa Kahn Feldstern stated in an announcement.
Kahn is also survived by son-in-law Daniel Feldstern; a grandson, Nick, and his spouse Jenn Fasulo-Feldstern.
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