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Don Buchwald, who founded his eponymous Hollywood talent agency Don Buchwald & Associates in 1977 and counted Howard Stern among his many clients, died Monday of natural causes. He was 88.
Buchwald passed away peacefully surrounded by his family, the company said in a statement Tuesday.
He got the nickname “Superagent” from Stern and is mentioned often — but rarely heard — on SiriusXM‘s The Howard Stern Show. “I’m not a particularly boastful person,” he told The New York Times in a 2018 interview.
Buchwald founded Don Buchwald & Associates in New York City with an original team of five agents and eventually opened a Los Angeles office in 1992. The company since has rebranded as Buchwald and currently has 130 employees spanning film, TV, theater, comedy, literary, commercials, social media, sports, animation, radio, gaming, voice-over digital/branded lifestyles and more.
The privately held agency is headquartered in its own building on East 44th Street between Madison and Fifth avenues in Midtown Manhattan, with the L.A. HQ on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile.
The Buchwald client list has included Kathleen Turner, Ralph Macchio and Ali MacGraw, and among its recent signees are Djimon Hounsou, Chris Parnell, Adam Goldberg, Reno Wilson and Billy Ray Cyrus.
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Buchwald grew up in Brooklyn and started at Brooklyn College when he was 16 — aspiring to be an actor. He left school to join the Army in 1954 and was stationed in Korea after the armistice was signed. Buchwald later returned to Brooklyn College and earned a degree in 1959. The school’s George Gershwin Theater later was renamed Don Buchwald Theater.
The privately held agency is headquartered in its own building on East 44th Street between Madison and Fifth avenues in Midtown Manhattan, with the L.A. HQ on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile.
The Buchwald client list has included Kathleen Turner, Ralph Macchio and Ali MacGraw, and among its recent signees are Djimon Hounsou, Chris Parnell, Adam Goldberg, Reno Wilson and Billy Ray Cyrus.
When I began making gifts to the Theater Department, it was suggested that the reconstructed space of the Gershwin should have a new name,” Buchwald said in an interview with Brooklyn College Magazine last year. “I was taken aback to replace the George Gershwin with the Don Buchwald. Gershwin will never be forgotten. I’ll go the way of a mere mortal.
During the early 1960s, he worked as an actor and business manager in regional theater, where he discovered a talent for negotiation. He soon began working as a agent for talent he met.
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