Dick Guttman, the longtime Hollywood publicity executive and screenwriter who worked with clients including Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood and many more, died Sept. 19 in Los Altos, Calif. He was 93.
\n\nOver his many decades in publicity at Rogers & Cowan and his own firms Guttman and Pam and Guttman Associates, he represented Hollywood notables including Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood, Gene Hackman, Warren Beatty, Elizabeth Taylor, William Shatner and many more.
\n\nGuttman moved to Los Angeles from St. Louis, Missouri with his family after WWII. As his official biography recounts, he rode L.A. streetcars to wait by the soundstage doors of popular radio dramas, collecting used scripts and autographs. He started out in journalism while still at Fairfax High covering high school sports for the Los Angeles Examiner.
\n\nWhile attending UCLA, he worked parttime for Rogers & Cowan PR, then became a unit publicist in Europe, where he worked on films including “Paris Holiday” and “The Key.” He met his wife Gisela while in Paris as unit publicist on Billy Wilder’s “Love in the Afternoon,” and they married in 1956.
\n\nWhen Guttman returned to Los Angeles, he worked at Rogers & Cowan for more than a decade, representing…
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