Bernie Styles, an extras casting director who founded Central Casting Talent Agency and was a well-known figure in New York film circles, has died. He was 99. Styles, who worked for such filmmakers as Howard W. Koch, Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Hiller, Woody Allen, Norman Lear, Bobby Greenhut and William Friedkin, died August 23 of natural causes at his home in Rancho Mirage, CA. Born on May 1, 1918 in New York City, Styles worked in restaurants and nightclubs while…...
- 8/24/2017
- Deadline
Bernie Styles, who cast actors and extras for such films as The Manchurian Candidate, Up the Sandbox and Outrageous Fortune, has died. He was 99.
Styles died Wednesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., producer and former Motion Picture Academy president Hawk Koch told The Hollywood Reporter.
Working out of New York City, Styles owned the Central Casting Talent Agency and for a time lived above the now-defunct Stage Deli on Seventh Avenue near Carnegie Hall (the restaurant had a prominent place in the 1984 Woody Allen movie Broadway Danny Rose).
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Styles died Wednesday at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., producer and former Motion Picture Academy president Hawk Koch told The Hollywood Reporter.
Working out of New York City, Styles owned the Central Casting Talent Agency and for a time lived above the now-defunct Stage Deli on Seventh Avenue near Carnegie Hall (the restaurant had a prominent place in the 1984 Woody Allen movie Broadway Danny Rose).
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- 8/24/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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