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Dec 5, 2017 · Born January 13, 1949, in Freeport, New York, Tartikoff was the quintessential TV kid who in his youth is said to have fantasized about one day succeeding Ed Sullivan. As Tartikoff's wife Lilly, who has raised millions of dollars for cancer research through her work with the annual Revlon Fire & Ice Ball and other philanthropic endeavors, puts ...
Aug 27, 1997 · Find a Grave Memorial ID: 2361. Source citation. Television Executive. Born in Freeport, Long Island, New York, he was an NBC-TV executive who was credited for turning around the network's low primetime reputation with a string of top-notch hits. As a graduate of Yale University, he started his television career on the staff at WLS-TV in Chicago.
Sep 12, 1997 · Brandon Tartikoff loved his job, even when his job was Manimal. That’s how the TV industry is remembering the exec, who died Aug. 27 at age 48 while receiving treatment for Hodgkin’s disease ...
Aug 28, 1997 · Brandon Tartikoff, the youngest and most successful head programmer in television history, died yesterday at the age of 48 at UCLA Medical Center, where he was being treated for cancer.Tartikoff ...
Brandon Donald Tartikoff (13 January 1949 – 27 August 1997; age 48) was the chairman of Paramount Pictures from 1991 to 1992. Despite his short tenure at the studio he made some monumental – and beneficial – decisions regarding the Star Trek live-action franchise. Tartikoff was actually brought in initially on 2 May 1991 as "President Motion Picture Group" as replacement for David ...
Aug 29, 1997 · Brandon Tartikoff enjoyed that ride, but perhaps most of all he seemed to cherish television’s ability, in those rare moments, to be something more than just a dull glow in the midst of a dimly ...
Oct 16, 2012 · Included in the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Collection are more than 4,000 pieces of correspondence, photos, video and awards from his earliest days at NBC in 1979 to his final ones at Paramount in ...
