Richard “Dick” Parsons, a former Time Warner CEO who was also instrumental in saving New York’s Apollo Theater, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 76.
His cause of death was bone cancer, his friend Ronald S. Lauder told the New York Times.
“All of us at Warner Bros. Discovery suffered a terrible loss today,” current WBD CEO David Zaslav told TheWrap in a statement, recalling that he first met Parsons 30 years ago at NBC and remembering him as “a great person, a great friend and a great leader.”
“All who got a chance to work with him and know him saw that unusual combination of great leadership with integrity and kindness,” Zaslav continued.