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Television producer and distributor(born Sandel Frank) died on October 20. He was 97.
Frank was born on July 11, 1929. Frank started his career as a sales executive for Paramount Pictures in the late 1940s, then worked at Guild Films and NBC before becoming President of Worldwide Sales at Wrather Corporation. In 1964, he started his own television program syndication company Sandy Frank Program Sales. In 1978, he expanded his company's operations and renamed it Sandy Frank Entertainment .
Frank's company is known for producing and distributing game shows such as Name That Tune , The Dating Game , and Face the Music .
Through his company, Frank produced and distributed Battle of the Planets , the English U.S. adaptation of the Kagaku Ninja-Tai Gatchaman anime, in 1978. He later worked on the G-Force: Guardians of Space adaptation of Gatchaman . His company also distributed and dubbed Japanese Daiei Film monster movies.
Source: Deadline (Peter White)