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Herbert (Herb) Marvin Rogers

Also Known As: "Herb"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Seattle, King, Washington, United States
Death: October 04, 2005 (83)
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Place of Burial: Los Angeles, California, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Harold Mark Rogers and Emma Rogers
Ex-husband of Private
Father of Private User; Private and Private
Brother of Helene Waldbaum Sprincin; William Irwin Rogers; Fred Rogers; Morton Bernard Rogers; Marilyn Joanne Wax and 5 others

Occupation: Producer
Managed by: Private User
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About Herbert (Herb) Marvin Rogers

From "December 2005/5766 • A monthly publication of Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Seattle & Bellevue • Vol. 98, No. 3 • www.tdhs-nw.org"

http://www.tdhs-nw.org/uploads/5983December2005.pdf

Herb M. Rogers. Beloved father of Scott and Jeanne Rogers, Steven Rogers and Stuart Rogers; beloved grand-father of Blade, Kanani and Beckett Rogers; beloved brother of William I. Rogers, Marilyn Wax, Sydney P. Rogers and Robert A. Rogers. Beloved nephew of Tillie Prottas; and beloved brother-in-law of Frances Rogers.

Beloved to numerous sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces

Swartz-Waldbaum:

Buried in Los Angeles, CA

Died of Cancer-related illness

http://us.vdc.imdb.com/name/nm2073221/bio

"Herb Rogers was not an actor, although he was quite well known and widely respected as a theatrical producer. Born in Seattle, Washington, he began producing touring Shakespeare companies at the age of 21. After a stint traveling the South Pacific with the U.S.O. during WWII, he set up offices in New York. He produced the first theater-in-the-round in a tent at Chicago's Tenthouse Theatre and at the Palm Springs Playhouse in the 1950s (a style of theatre that later swept the nation). He also helped build and produce at San Francisco's Hyatt House Theatre.

He produced over 500 plays and musicals in a career that spanned over 50 years with literally hundreds of top stars including Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Jack Benny and Ella Fitzgerald.

In the 1960s and 1970s he brought Broadway musicals and comedies to the Hawaiian Islands at the Honolulu Civic Light Opera and the Neal Blaisdale Center, often with a show's original Broadway star. After years in Seattle, San Jose and Long Beach, he opened the La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts near Los Angeles, where he stayed for 17 years. He returned to Maui for a final season in 1995.

Herb passed away October 4, 2006 of cancer-related illness in Honolulu. He was 83. He is survived by sons Scott Rogers, a director and acting coach; Steven Rogers, a screenwriter; and Stuart, a director and acting teacher; and three grandchildren."

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Herbert (Herb) Marvin Rogers's Timeline

1922
August 15, 1922
Seattle, King, Washington, United States
2005
October 4, 2005
Age 83
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
October 10, 2005
Age 83
Los Angeles, California, United States
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