Billy Harbach, a two-time Emmy winner who served as the first producer of The Tonight Show and ran the fabled 1960s variety program The Hollywood Palace for all six of its seasons, has died. He was 98.
Harbach died Dec. 18 after a brief illness at his home in Fairfield, Connecticut, his daughter Lisa Setos told The Hollywood Reporter.
Inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame in 1992, Harbach gave singers Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Jack Jones and Andy Williams their starts in television on NBC's The Tonight Show, then hosted by Steve Allen.
Harbach also cast Raquel...
Harbach died Dec. 18 after a brief illness at his home in Fairfield, Connecticut, his daughter Lisa Setos told The Hollywood Reporter.
Inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame in 1992, Harbach gave singers Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Jack Jones and Andy Williams their starts in television on NBC's The Tonight Show, then hosted by Steve Allen.
Harbach also cast Raquel...
- 1/5/2018
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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