Lorin Bennett Salob

Lorin Bennett Salob was an Emmy-winning producer and entertainment executive who held multiple production positions, including assistant director and production manager, over the course of his 30-plus years in show business. Salob was born in New York City and got his first job in the entertainment industry by working for Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" (ABC/Syndicated/USA Network, 1952-1989). Salob was in his early 20s and eager to learn anything and everything about show business. He showed promises early on and by the late 1960s was working for David L. Wolper and his production company as an associate producer and production hand. While working for Wolper's company, which primarily produced documentaries for television, Salob earned an associate producer credit on TV documentaries like "California" (TV, 1968). It was also during this period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that Salob began working as a production hand for nature documentaries produced by both National Geographic and the French maritime explorer Jacques Cousteau. Throughout these early days in his career, Salob longed to be working behind the scenes in dramatic films and television shows. He got his shot in the early 1970s when he accepted a position with the Director's Guild of America as a trainee. Over the course of the next decade Salob worked his way up from DGA trainee to assistant director to eventually unit production manager on a wide swath of films and TV shows. Some of the more notable films and TV shows he worked on during this period included "The Getaway" (1972), "The Streets of San Francisco" (ABC, 1972-77), "99 and 44/100% Dead!" (1974), "Charlie's Angels" (ABC, 1976-1981), "TRON" (1982), and "Voyager from the Unknown" (1982). By the late 1980s Salob was working primarily as a producer. In 1992 he won his first and only Primetime Emmy for producing the biographical mini-series "A Woman Named Jackie" (NBC, 1991). The series, about the life of the former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, starred Roma Downey as the lead. With decades of experience behind him, by the 1990s Salob was working as an executive in charge of production for various companies, including Tristar Television, Disney and New World Entertainment. Some of the TV shows he supervised during this period included "Zorro" (The Family Channel, 1990-93), "Ghost Stories" (Fox, 1997-98), and "The Adventures of Sinbad" (Syndication, 1996-1998)] Salob's last credit was as the executive in charge of production on the 1999 TV movie "The Sky's on Fire" (ABC, 1999). After a decades long career in Hollywood, Lorin Bennett Salob passed away on October 23, 2019 in Staunton, Virginia. The cause of death was cardiac ALS, which he had been battling for many years.