Veteran Hollywood publicist Joe Sutton died of health complications on July 16 in hospice care at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, his son Michael announced on Friday.
He was 83. Sutton began his career in PR as an office boy at Rogers & Cowan before the firm made him a publicist. From there, be broke out on his own in 1962 with business partner Mickey Freeman, forming Freeman & Sutton Public Relations.
Early clients included a long list of notable names such as Bill Cosby; The Doors; The Smothers Brothers; The Beach Boys; David Dortort and his famed NBC series Bonanza and the High Chaparral; Chuck Barris and his legendary Dating Game; James Caan; Tennessee Ernie Ford; Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island; Allen Sherman; and Jill St.
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