Harry Flynn Dies: Publicist For Bob Hope, Michael Landon, TV Networks & Many Others Was 92
deadline.comHarry Flynn, a veteran publicist whose clients over the decades included Bob Hope, Michael Landon, Carroll O’Connor, Donna Reed and various TV networks and film studios, has died.
He was 92. A friend of his family told Deadline that Flynn died October 5 of natural causes in Los Angeles. He started in the business during the 1950s but left publicity for a while to write for fan magazines.
In 1962, Flynn joined the newly formed ABC on-air promotion department as a writer-producer. Two years later he moved to Columbia’s Screen Gems and would run its TV promotion/publicity department for the next five years, working on such classics series as Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, The Monkees, The Donna Reed Show, The Flying Nun and others.
He then moved over to the Columbia Pictures trailer department to produce promos for films including Loving, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and Marooned.
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