- Won Broadway's 1971 Tony Award as producer, with co-producers Helen Bonfils and Michael White, of Best Play winner "Sleuth." He was also Tony-nominated three other times: in 1967, as producer with Bonfils of Best Play nominee "The Killing of Sister George;" in 1969, as producer, again with Bonfils, of Best Play nominee "Lovers;" and in 1975 as lone producer of Best Play nominee "Same Time, Next Year."
- He was predeceased by his brother, Henry Gottlieb, and nephew Roger Gottlieb.
- He graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1941 with a degree in Drama.
- He studied drama at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
- He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York.
- He is survived by his nieces, Hildy Gottlieb Hill and Wendy Gottlieb of Southampton, New York and his sister-in-law Claire Gottlieb of New York City.
- He was often called an "old-fashioned" producer, because he mostly worked with original scripts, helping them "from the page to the stage", and sometimes on to the screen.
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