Mike Zimring (May 24, 1916 â€" February 23, 2011) was an American
entertainment agent.Born to a Jewish family, Zimring attended the
drama school, Pasadena Playhouse, from 1936â€"37, and was a radio
actor in Hollywood and Chicago, from 1938â€"41. He was a captain in
the United States Army from 1941â€"46, heading the theatrical branch
of the European Theater of Operations. In 1947, he was assistant to
Orson Welles in the Mercury Theater. Zimring joined the William Morris
Agency in 1948, becoming the senior agent in the motion picture
department in 1950 and head of the literary department in 1959. He
stayed at the William Morris Agency for several decades before
becoming independent in the early 1990s. He lived in Beverly Hills,
California.His clients over the years included Karl Malden, Carl
Reiner, Katharine Hepburn, Gore Vidal, Herbert Lom, Frank Capra, Jean
Renoir, and his wife Connie Russell. In his memoirs, Carl Reiner
called Mike Zimring "the most civilized of all Hollywood agents."Mike
Zimring's older brother Maury (a.k.a. Maurice Zimm) wrote the story
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