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Michael Franklin, Former WGA West and DGA Executive Director, Dies at 96
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hollywoodreporter.comMichael Franklin, who represented directors and writers as executive director of the DGA and WGA West, died Monday in Los Angeles.
He was 96. From 1958-78, Franklin spent two decades as the longest-serving executive director of the WGAW, an era that guild president David Goodman noted in a statement spanned "the end of the Blacklist, the creation of our pension and health funds, the negotiation of residuals in perpetuity for films and television programs and the postwar maturation of the film and television industries as dominant cultural forces." "Mike went head-to-head with studio negotiators, including Lew Wasserman, and won unprecedented gains for writers in the 1960s and 1970s," Goodman continued. "His amiable enthusiasm and dogged.
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