Carl Samrock Dies: Former Warners Publicity & Home Video Exec, New York Times Photographer Was 81
deadline.comCarl Samrock, a former VP National Publicity for Warner Bros Pictures and home video executive who also was a photojournalist for The New York Times, died October 1 of pancreatic cancer.
He was 81. His wife of 44 years, Carol Andelman Samrock, confirmed the news. Samrock joined Warners in 1982 as West Coast Publicity Director and eventually built and managed a 16-member staff responsible for publicity duties on some 30 films in production or release annually.
He rose to VP National Publicity at Warner Bros. Pictures in Burbank for most of the studio’s years under Chairmen Bob Daly and Terry Semel. RELATED: Hollywood & Media Deaths 2022: A Photo Gallery Born on June 1, 1941, in Manhattan, Samrock began his career as a theatrical press agent, handling Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.
In 1977, he was named VP in the New York Office of ICPR Public Relations, a corporate and entertainment publicity firm that worked with major movie studios and independent film producers, movie stars and filmmakers.
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