“Marvin went and noticed the station supervisor and performed him superbly,” Mr. Keeshan, who died in 2004, advised Newsday in 1991. “He mentioned to him, ‘You realize that the expertise isn’t vital, so what if Keeshan offers you the rights to “Tinker’s Workshop” and also you let him go?’ The station supervisor mentioned, ‘Gee, do you assume Keeshan will go for that?,’ and Marvin mentioned, ‘Perhaps.’”
The deal was struck, and “Tinker’s Workshop” was quickly a footnote. At CBS in October 1955, Mr. Keeshan began “Captain Kangaroo,” which turned the touchstone youngsters’s program of generations.
Marvin Josephson Associates, as Mr. Josephson’s firm got here to be known as, didn’t cease rising for many years. In 1971 the corporate went public and was renamed Josephson Worldwide Inc. In 1975 it established ICM Artists to characterize classical musicians; Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman have been amongst its shoppers.
Mr. Josephson took the corporate personal once more in 1988, and thru the Nineteen Nineties his subsidiaries represented numerous A-list actors and writers. Within the Nineteen Nineties, he handed off lots of his administration duties to others, together with his daughter Nancy. A controlling curiosity within the firm was sold in 2005 to a non-public investor, Suhail Rizvi.
Mr. Josephson married Ingrid Bergh in 1950. They divorced in 1970. In 1973 he married Tina Chen, who survives him. Along with her and his daughter Nancy, who’s from his first marriage, he’s additionally survived by two different youngsters from that marriage, Celia Josephson and Claire Josephson; two youngsters from his marriage to Ms. Chen, YiLing Chen-Josephson and YiPei Chen-Josephson; a brother, Jack; 16 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. One other son, Joseph, from his first marriage, died.
