She also had leading roles in “Doctor Dolittle” with Rex Harrison, “Walk, Don’t Run” with Cary Grant and “The Molly Maguires” with Sean Connery.

After quietly helping Mel Brooks set the irreverent tone on “Get Smart” and “The Producers,” she had a long collaboration as a writer with the…

A Grammy-winning pianist, he was renowned for works that created “new ideas about line, harmony, rhythm, sound and musical architecture,” one admirer wrote.

He was president of one of the nation’s largest cable operators and chairman of the Yankees’ YES Network. He also drove his sports car to…

The ad for the Macintosh computer — which ran just once, during the Super Bowl — is considered one of the most memorable commercials ever…

He ran Universal’s television and movie businesses and had two stints at Columbia. Running a studio, he said, was “sort of like being the head…

A corporate executive who specialized in mergers, he brought together five Jewish institutions and their collections at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan.

Her “Seventeen,” a study of teenagers later recognized as a major work of cinéma vérité, was pulled from a public TV series in 1982 under…

For five years, he honed the paper’s focus on hard news and enterprising journalism, distancing it from its reputation for fluffy, bite-sized stories.

She put millions from her foundation into projects in California, like a performing arts center in Beverly Hills and a wildlife crossing over the busy…