Ronald S. Kass

Ronald “Ron” Stanley Kass , born Ronald Stanley Kashinoff , (born March 30, 1935 in Philadelphia , United States , † October 17, 1986 in Los Angeles ) was an American record manager, music producer , television and film producer .

Live and act

Born Ronald Stanley Kashinoff in Philadelphia, his family changed the Russian name to Kass for easier pronunciation when they moved to California. Kass attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, where he played in a band that would later be called Tijuana Brass . At the UCLA Ronald Kass made a degree in accounting. In the 1950s he began his career as a music manager. Initially Ron Kass was employed by Liberty Records and later served himself up to the president of this record company. In 1968/69, shortly after it was founded, Kass was in charge of the Beatles' British record company , Apple Records , until his successor Allen Klein pushed him out of the financially troubled group.

With the beginning of the new decade, the 1970s, Ronald S. Kass switched to the cinema and television industry and began producing films. These were mostly entertainment productions, but occasionally also documentaries. One of these works, the short documentary Naked Yoga co-produced by Kass in 1974 , earned Kass and his colleague Mervyn Lloyd the nomination for an Oscar . At that time, Kass, who had already been married once, was married to the British film and television actress Joan Collins , with whom he had had their daughter Katyana since 1972. Another product of this relationship was the 1977 soft sex film The Mare with Collins in the lead role. At the beginning of the 1980s, Kass stopped film production again. He now suffered from both increasing heroin addiction and cancer. Kass died of this disease, divorced from Collins since 1983, 1986 at the age of just 51. Kass's father, who was born in Sweden, survived him by four years, his mother, who turned 102, by 28 years.

Filmography

• 1971: Melody
• 1971: The Pied Piper ( The Pied Piper )
• 1973: The Optimists ( The Optimists of Nine Elms )
• 1974: Bird on a Wire
• 1974: Fallen Angels
• 1974: Naked Yoga
• 1975: Tattletales (series, appearance)
• 1977: The mare ( The Stud )
• 1979: Lady Diamond ( The Bitch )

literature

• Obituary in the Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1986

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daily Mail report from October 15, 2013
2. ↑ "They shouldn't just be a decoration". Report in Der Spiegel on February 24, 1986
3. ↑ Obituary on legacy.com

Web links

• Ronald S. Kass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography I.
• Short biography II