Herb Lazarus, who spent the past 27 years as international TV president for Carsey-Werner Television Distribution during his nearly 70-year career and is in the International TV Distribution Hall of Fame, died Tuesday. He was 88
“He saw the lighter side of our business and always said that we were lucky it didn’t involve decisions of life and death,” said Alexandra Taylor, Carsey-Werner’s London-based EVP international. She recalled one incident at MIPCOM in which a Belgian buyer apologetically notified them at the last minute that he couldn’t make a planned lunch.
Born on January 5, 1935, in Brooklyn, Lazarus began his career in the then-nascent TV business in 1955, working as a 19-year-old gofer in the mailroom for production and distribution company Television Programs of America in New York City. He later moved to the shipping department, where he would send 16mm prints around the country.
He would leave Columbia in 1978 to become a partner in Silverbach-Lazarus Corp., an international distribution company. Metromedia later acquired the partnership, with Silverbach serving as president and Lazarus as EVP Program Distribution.
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