Sherry Robb, a literary agent, expertise supervisor and producer whose profession spanned greater than 5 a long time throughout publishing, tv and movie, has died. She was 81.
Robb, who battled congestive coronary heart illness for 20 years, died Feb. 14. A memorial service has been set for 1:30 p.m. on June 9 at Hollywood Endlessly Cemetery.
Robb helped carry to publication Robert Graysmith’s Zodiac, the 1986 true-crime guide about unsolved serial murders in San Francisco within the late Sixties that impressed David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo.
She additionally performed a crucial function in launching the screenwriting profession of Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Deep Area 9), promoting his first two scripts to Paramount.
Based mostly on an concept that Robb developed whereas listening to Betty White discuss how her animals helped her get better from the lack of her husband, Password host Allen Ludden, she got here up with Pet Love, a 1983 guide that launched the beloved actress’ literary profession.
She additionally was a guiding drive behind Mary Wilson’s 1986 guide, Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme, one of many best-selling music autobiographies in historical past.
The singer and White had been simply two of the 100 or so first-time authors that Robb guided throughout her lengthy profession.
After receiving a bachelor’s diploma from Whittier School and a grasp’s of social work from Smith School, Sherry Ann Robb turned a therapist at Massachusetts Normal Hospital in Boston and a instructor at Boston State School, Tufts College and the College of Massachusetts.
She labored for 5 years in New York Metropolis for a serious publishing firm, then teamed with Bart Andrews, who had written a 1976 guide about TV’s I Love Lucy, to type a literary agency, the Andrews & Robb Company, in 1981.
She cut up with Andrews in 1989 and to launch her personal enterprise, AFH Expertise Company, then based The Robb Co., a boutique administration agency devoted to representing actors and writers, in 2003.
In 2020, she co-founded the Robb Squad Movie Co. alongside director Marc Martinez and produced the 2024 characteristic The Reminiscence in My Coronary heart, which fulfilled her dream of spotlighting her expertise roster by authentic content material.
Inducted into the Private Managers Corridor of Fame in 2019, Robb additionally served as a choose for UCLA’s Script Competitors Showcase and consulted for the movie masters program at USC.