DGA launches Koch golf tournie
Event renamed in honor of late producer
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AMPTP president Nick Counter, left, and MPAA chief Jack Valenti, right, flank DGA exec director Jay Roth, Hawk Koch and Billy Koch, son and grandson respectively of the late director, at the Howard W. Koch Memorial DGA Golf Tournament. |
The golf tournament was renamed in honor of the late producer and former president of production at Paramount who died in February. Koch was producer or exec producer of such films as "The Manchurian Candidate," "The Odd Couple," "Airplane!" and "Ghost."
Koch served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences from 1977 to 1979, and was given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1989.
Proceeds will benefit the DGA Foundation.
