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 Harold Loeb

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Harold Loeb Famous memorial

Birth
New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA
Death
17 May 2003 (aged 84)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Memorial ID
146708279 View Source

Actor, Director and Producer. Loeb graduated from Loomis Chaffee prep school before going on to Harvard, where he played basketball. After graduating, he was drafted into the Army and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, earning a Purple Heart. Upon his discharge, he moved to New York where he found work as a publicist for Warner Bros., and later a reporter and film reviewer for Independent Film Journal and Motion Picture Daily. By 1950, he became casting director for 'Lux Video Theater' and two years later, became director of the show. Hoping to become a better director by studying acting, he began to study the craft under Lee Strasberg. Loeb would appear in numerous television series and would also become a producer of such off-Broadway plays as 'Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights'. In 1970, he produced two of that year's biggest block-busters; 'Soldier Blue' and 'Kelly's Heroes'. Loeb died from complications of cancer.

Actor, Director and Producer. Loeb graduated from Loomis Chaffee prep school before going on to Harvard, where he played basketball. After graduating, he was drafted into the Army and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, earning a Purple Heart. Upon his discharge, he moved to New York where he found work as a publicist for Warner Bros., and later a reporter and film reviewer for Independent Film Journal and Motion Picture Daily. By 1950, he became casting director for 'Lux Video Theater' and two years later, became director of the show. Hoping to become a better director by studying acting, he began to study the craft under Lee Strasberg. Loeb would appear in numerous television series and would also become a producer of such off-Broadway plays as 'Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights'. In 1970, he produced two of that year's biggest block-busters; 'Soldier Blue' and 'Kelly's Heroes'. Loeb died from complications of cancer.

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  • Added: 19 May 2015
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID: 146708279
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146708279/harold-loeb: accessed ), memorial page for Harold Loeb (21 Sep 1918–17 May 2003), Find a Grave Memorial ID 146708279, citing Eden Memorial Park, Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.