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.
Bio by: Louis du Mort
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