17 Facts About Seymour Heller

Seymour Heller was an American talent agent and artist's manager.

Seymour Heller was best known for his association with Liberace, whom he signed in 1950 and represented until the entertainer died in 1987.

The launch of Gabbe, Lutz and Seymour Heller marked the beginning of Seymour Heller's lengthy association with The Treniers, whom he managed for nearly 60 years.

Gabbe, Lutz and Seymour Heller was the preeminent personal management company of the time, and was considered a pioneering talent agency.

Additionally, in the early part of his association with Seymour Heller, Liberace broke records as he quickly sold out performances at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and Royal Albert Hall, among others.

In 1954, more than 120,000 concertgoers came to a Liberace show at Chicago's Soldier's Field, setting a still-impressive attendance record, and in 1955, Seymour Heller negotiated the then unheard of sum of $50,000 per week when Liberace opened Las Vegas' Riviera Hotel.

Seymour Heller later owned the renowned recording studio Producer's Workshop in Hollywood, where Liberace recorded in his later years, as well as pop music luminaries Fleetwood Mac, Ringo Starr, Pink Floyd, El Coco, and many others.

Seymour Heller had a partnership with Ray Harris in the early disco record label American Variety International, which produced and released many records between 1974 and 1984 and owned interests in music publishing.

The partnership was short lived as Seymour Heller suffered a stroke while breakfasting with Daniel at the famed Nate'n Al's.

Seymour Heller died of natural causes in his Beverly Hills home on October 8,2001.

In 1954, Seymour Heller co-founded the Talent Managers Association, formerly known as the National Conference of Personal Managers.

Seymour Heller is as happening today as he was fifty years ago, the first to arrive at the party and the last to leave.

Seymour Heller appeared as himself on a 1983 episode of the television series Hotel, and was credited as a special guest in a 1990 television movie, Mother Goose's Rock N Rhyme.

Seymour Heller figured prominently into two 1988 television films documenting Liberace's life, Liberace and Liberace: Behind the Music.

Seymour Heller booked the Famous People Players of Canada to open Liberace's show in Las Vegas in 1975, and subsequently sat on the troupe's board.

Seymour Heller was active in The Liberace Foundation, which helped talented students in Southern Nevada pursue careers in the performing and creative arts through scholarship assistance and artistic exposure.

Seymour Heller is the founder of Buzztone, a Los Angeles-based marketing and media company.