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Date of Birth
30 March 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Date of Death
17 October 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer)

Birth Name
Ronald Stanley Kass

Mini Biography

Ronald Kass grew up in Hollywood and attended Fairfax High School where he played in the original Tijuna Brass. He went on to get a degree in accounting at USC after which he married his college sweetheart, Anita. He worked at Liberty records which sent him to London to head up their European Division under EMI. He had two sons, Jonathon and Roberto who grew up in Lugano, Switzerland with their mother after Ron married Joan Collins.

After leaving Apple Records, he ran MGM and Warner Bros. Records and later became a successful film producer, especially filming the books of his sister-in-law, Jackie Collins.