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US television executive and AIDS activist
A.K.A.
Stephen Frederick Kolzak
Stephen Kolzak
Stephen F. Kolzak
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Male
Place of birth
Hartford, Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, USA
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PiscesPlace of death
Sherman Oaks Hospital, Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, USA; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Age
37 years
Education
Harvard University
Cambridge, Middlesex County, USA
Fort Hunt High School
Virginia, USA
Bachelor of Arts
Harvard University
Cambridge, Middlesex County, USA
Employers
Sony Pictures
USA
Awards
Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Pilot Casting
(1984)
GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award
(1991)
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Biography
Stephen F. Kolzak was an American Los Angeles casting director.
He is best known for Altered States (1980), Cheers (1982) and Bachelor Party (1984). He is reported to have chosen the Cheers cast.
In the last two years of his life, he was in a long-term relationship with his partner Paul Monette.
He devoted the last part of his life to fighting homophobia and AIDS-phobia within the entertainment industry.
The GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award given to an openly LGBT member of the entertainment or media community for his or her work toward eliminating homophobia has been awarded since 1991, with Kolzak being the posthumous inaugural recipient.
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