LOS ANGELES COUNTY - News from Sept. 19, 1986
MGM/UA Communications, which resulted from the recent rejoining of MGM to United Artists, has named to its board five more persons who had been MGM directors before Turner Broadcasting owned MGM for several months this year. They are Cary Grant, Willie D. Davis, Edward A. Horrigan Jr., Arthur G. Linkletter and Kenneth L. Trefftzs.
The board was thereby increased to 14 members, according to Lee Rich, chairman and chief executive.
Grant, the film actor, also is a board member at Hollywood Park and at McGregor Corp. Davis is president of All-Pro Broadcasting. Horrigan is vice chairman of RJR Nabisco. Linkletter is chairman of Linkletter Enterprises. Trefftzs is a private investor who formerly was a finance professor at the University of Southern California.
The other MGM/UA directors are Rich, Stephen D. Silbert, Anthony D. Thomopoulos, Alan Ladd Jr., Sidney H. Sapsowitz, Fred Benninger, Kirk Kerkorian, Frank Rothman and Walter M. Sharp. Kerkorian is the controlling shareholder of publicly traded MGM/UA, which is based in Beverly Hills.
The biggest entertainment stories
Get our big stories about Hollywood, film, television, music, arts, culture and more right in your inbox as soon as they publish.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
