Overview
- Mancuso died on Oct. 1 at his Los Angeles home from complications of cancer, the family said.
- He led Paramount as chairman and CEO from 1984 to 1991 and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists from 1993 to 1999.
- He pioneered linking music videos and soundtracks to films, tactics credited with boosting titles such as Saturday Night Fever and Flashdance and changing how studios sold movies.
- After a string of expensive flops at Paramount he was pushed out, sued for breach of contract and later settled for about $20 million.
- At MGM he helped reduce debt, acquired assets including Orion and PolyGram libraries, helped engineer a reported 1996 sale to Kirk Kerkorian and Australia’s Seven Network, and was remembered as ‘Gentleman Frank’ by colleagues and family including his wife Frances and son Frank Mancuso Jr.