{"id":2156701,"date":"2025-11-14T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2156701"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:08:22","slug":"ted-hartley-actor-producer-and-former-chairman-of-rko-pictures-dies-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ted-hartley-actor-producer-and-former-chairman-of-rko-pictures-dies-at-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Hartley, Actor, Producer and Former Chairman of Rko Pictures, Dies at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0366894\/\">Ted Hartley<\/a>, an actor, two-time Tony-nominated producer and chairman and CEO of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1012051\/\">Rko Pictures<\/a>, has died. He was 100.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime resident of the Hamptons, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm15899211\/\">Hartley<\/a> died Oct. 10 in New York City, The East Hampton Star reported.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, he and his late wife, actress <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0581277\/\">Dina Merrill<\/a>, took control of what was left of the famed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0226417\/\">Rko<\/a> when their company, Pavilion Communications, purchased 51 percent of the studio that released <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0360717\/\">King Kong<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0033467\/\">Citizen Kane<\/a> and once was owned by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0400652\/\">Howard Hughes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He then produced several films, including a 1998 remake of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120751\/\">Mighty Joe Young<\/a> for Disney that starred <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000200\/\">Bill Paxton<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000234\/\">Charlize Theron<\/a> and a 2002 version of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035015\/\">The Magnificent Ambersons<\/a> for A&amp;e.<\/p>\n<p>Hartley was nominated for Tony Awards in 2007 and \u201908 for producing the musical comedy <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085385\/\">Curtains<\/a>, which played for 511 performances on Broadway, and a revival of Gypsy that featured <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0526985\/\">Patti LuPone<\/a>. His other stage credits include <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028333\/\">Never Gonna Dance<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059113\/\">Doctor Zhivago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Hartley, an actor, two-time Tony-nominated producer and chairman and CEO of Rko Pictures, has died. He was 100. A longtime resident of the Hamptons, Hartley died Oct. 10 in New York City, The East Hampton Star reported. In 1991, he and his late wife, actress Dina Merrill, took control of what was left of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2156702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2156701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ted-Hartley-Actor-Producer-and-Former-Chairman-of-Rko-Pictures.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156703,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156701\/revisions\/2156703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}