Roger Mayer, a philanthropist and former studio executive who served as the chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Fund for eight years, died Tuesday, the Mptf said today. He was 89. A Yale Law School grad and WWII Army vet, Mayer started his entertainment industry career as an attorney for Columbia Pictures in 1952. After nine years with the studio, during which time he became a general studio executive, he moved to MGM, where he spent 25 years in a variety of…...
- 3/26/2015
- Deadline TV
Roger Mayer, a philanthropist and former studio executive who served as the chairman of the Motion Picture and Television Fund for eight years, died Tuesday, the Mptf said today. He was 89. A Yale Law School grad and WWII Army vet, Mayer started his entertainment industry career as an attorney for Columbia Pictures in 1952. After nine years with the studio, during which time he became a general studio executive, he moved to MGM, where he spent 25 years in a variety of…...
- 3/26/2015
- Deadline
When Martin Scorsese presented him with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2005, I’m sure many people watching the Oscarcast around the world had no idea who Roger Mayer was. Hollywood insiders and the community of film archivists knew him well as a fair-minded business executive and a generous benefactor. I was lucky enough to call him a friend. Roger suffered a heart attack on Tuesday at 89. He had a bout of health problems last year that had many of us worried but he eventually rallied, so this news comes as a shock. Roger belied his age for many years, chairing meetings with vigor and enthusiasm and raising funds for causes he cared about. My wife and I learned...
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- 3/26/2015
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Roger L. Mayer, a former executive at Columbia Pictures, MGM and Turner who became a lifelong champion of film preservation, has died. He was 89. Mayer, who received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2005, died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack at his doctor's office in Beverly Hills, his wife, Pauline, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. In 1996, Mayer became chairman of the National Film Preservation Foundation, which has helped rescue more than 2,100 orphan films since then.
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- 3/25/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I've always been interested in the decision-making behind which films are added to the National Film RegistryRebecca Ford looks into the process of selecting films for the National Film Registry -- the 600-title list of Us films deemed "culturally, historical or aesthetically significant," and therefore preserved in the Library of Congress. Rebecca Ford looks into the process, and finds that it doesn't always favor consensus classics or popular favorites: among the 25 Best Picture Oscar winners that haven't yet made the cut, for example, are "Amadeus," "Rebecca" and "Forrest Gump." National Preservation Board chairman Roger L. Mayer says, "This is not...
- 12/6/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Turner Entertainment president Roger Mayer will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the 77th Annual Academy Awards, the board of governors said Thursday. "The board was persuaded in large measure by Roger's longtime efforts on behalf of the Motion Picture and Television Fund as well as his efforts in film preservation," Academy president Frank Pierson said. "Throughout a more than half-century-long career in the motion picture industry, Roger has been a fixture on the boards of a wide variety of charitable organizations. He has always given his time to support the needs of his industry."...
- 12/17/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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