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Subject: David B. Charnay - Producer and novelist


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Dead at 90
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Date Posted: October 07, 2002 8:27:29 EDT

Oct. 7, 2002--Hollywood producer and novelist David B. Charnay, of Calabasas, CA, died on October 2, 2002 at Cedars Sinai Hospital at age 90 of complications from surgery.

Charnay was born in New York City on April 13, 1912. In 1967 he assumed control of Four Star International, Inc., a publicly-held movie and television studio formed by Dick Powell, Charles Boyer and David Niven, which Charnay ran for 16 years. Four Star produced "The Big Valley" with Barbara Stanwyck; The Rogues" with David Niven, Ida Lupino, Charles Boyer and Gig Young; "Wanted Dead or Alive" with Steve McQueen; "The Thrillseekers"; "Here Come The Stars," etc. Charnay later sold control of the Company to McAndrews and Forbes, owned by Ron Perelman, who merged Four Star's library with New World Pictures and retired to write novels and publish "The American Eagle," a newsletter.

Prior to his move to Los Angeles, Charnay had been successively an award-winning New York journalist with the New York American, New York Daily Mirror (five years) and the New York Daily News (for ten years), which in those days had the highest circulation with two and one-half million weekdays and four and one-half million on Sundays. As a reporter, he chased Nazis before the war. He was recruited to train at OSS at Fairfax, VA.

Subsequently, Charnay was a powerful Washington lobbyist, building the second largest Public Relations firm in the U.S., Allied Public Relations, where he was an advisor to political, film and labor leaders including Cecil B. DeMille, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers Union, Jimmy Hoffa, Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey; close friend and confidant of President Harry Truman and Senator Stiles Bridges; a close personal advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson and Nixon; and an industrialist, as Chairman of Highway Trailers, Clinton Engines, Ward LaFrance and President and CEO, Transcontinental Industries.

Charnay's latest novels were the recently-released "Operation Lucifer: The Chase, Capture and Trial of Adolf Hitler" (an alternative history inspired in part by his wartime OSS training) and "Target 1600" (a political thriller).

Charnay attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and NYU in NYC. His high school studies were at Peddie Institute in Hightstown, NJ and MacKenzie Prep in Monroe, NY. He was a member of the Overseas Press Club, the New York Press Club, The National Press Club, The Society of Silurians, the Producers Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Charnay was preceded in death by his parents, Dr. Isadore and Jeannette Lipton Charnay, a leading NYC Courtier, and his daughter, Dr. Joyce Leonard. He is survived by his wife, Martha Arnold-Charnay of Calabasas, CA; his sister, Beatrice Maybruck of NYC; his son, John Charnay of Los Angeles, CA; two daughters: Janis Charnay of Palm Springs, CA and Jeannette Hower of Chaparral, NM; seven grandchildren; one special nephew; one niece; two great-nieces; one great-nephew; and one great, great-niece.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002 at Frank Campbell Mortuary, 1076 Madison Avenue, NYC. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the Leukemia Society

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