Ronald Muchnick; Talent Manager for Celebrities

Ronald Muchnick, 56, Hollywood talent agent, personal manager and producer. A native of Ann Arbor, Mich., and a child actor there, Muchnick was educated at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University. Head of his own management firm since 1980, Muchnick represented such celebrities as Richard Gere, Joseph Mascolo, Clifton Davis, Lesley Ann Warren and Marian Mercer. Muchnick worked in New York during the 1960s and 1970s, where he was house manager of New York’s Helen Hayes Theatre and later co-artistic director of the URGENT Theatre Company, which produced off-Broadway plays. On Tuesday in Los Angeles of AIDS.