Ron Ziskin, who produced the competition programAmerican Gladiators, morning TV shows hosted by Maury Povich and Regis Philbin and films including the William H.
Macy-starringStealing Sinatra, has died. He was 69. Ziskin died Saturday in Las Vegas of complications of vascular disease, his wife of 38 years, journalist Diane Wedner, said.
Ziskin also executive produced such telefilms as 1998'sFuturesport, starring Wesley Snipes, Dean Cain and Vanessa Williams, and 2004'sThe Goodbye Girl, a remake of the Neil Simon hit starring Jeff Daniels, as well asHunting the Lost Symbol, a 2009 documentary based on the Dan Brown best-sellerThe Lost Symbol. "He was one of the most creative and imaginative producers I ever worked with," Hank Cohen, CEO of.
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