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Mr. Grey with Leonardo DiCaprio at the premiere of Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" at the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan in 2013.
Kirsten Luce for The New York Times; thumbnail, Jamie Rector for The New York Times, 2009
Brad Grey
Died on May 14, 2017 at age 59
Mr. Grey rose from blue-collar roots in New York to the pinnacle of Hollywood, where he was the chairman of Paramount Pictures for a dozen years and played a pivotal role in the creation of seminal television hits like “The Sopranos.”
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.