In 1952, Walters began booking jazz luminaries including Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz into his dad’s bar, which he renamed the Brooklyn Bop Shop. He then served as a medic during the Korean War. Said his son: “Whether it was Charles Durning telling his harrowing story of being a soldier at Normandy on D-Day, then spending three months in a foxhole at the Battle of the Bulge Rod Steiger recounting the taxi scene in On the Waterfront that led to his legendary feud with Marlon Brando or Jan Murray sharing stories of opening for Frank Sinatra, they were epic nights filled with Broadway and Hollywood lore and laughter.”īorn in 1932 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Walters performed as a child in a Coney Island carnival sideshow that his father, Joseph, a diamond courier and bar owner, operated. Those at the table included Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Shecky Greene, Harvey Korman, Ed Asner, Hal Linden, Adam Sandler, Robert Downey Jr., Angie Dickinson, Alec Baldwin, Sharon Stone, Richard Lewis, Larry David, Jerry Vale, Frankie Valli, James Woods and Jason Alexander. The low-stakes $2 game was, his son said, “designed to be a place where actors could kibbutz, tell jokes and war stories and just hang with their longtime friends in a very haimish environment where they could relax among their own.” Walters for years also presided over a weekly poker game at his West Hollywood high-rise condo. Herman Rush, TV Producer and Hollywood Executive, Dies at 94 Simmons, Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons, Jon Voight and Allison Janney. Among those who attended were Shirley Jones, Robert Forster, Charles Bronson, Patricia Neal, Richard Dreyfuss, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Landau, Louis Gossett Jr., J.K.

Walters hosted his first Oscar night gala in 1990 and the last in 2017, most often inside the Beverly Hilton’s Crystal Ballroom. 10 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Burbank, his son, producer Gary Michael Walters ( Whiplash), told The Hollywood Reporter. Norby Walters, a music agent who worked with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, Kool & the Gang and Public Enemy before gaining renown in Hollywood for his annual “Night of 100 Stars” Oscar party and weekly poker game, has died.

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