Bob Broder , a doyen of the TV lit agency business who co-founded The Broder Kurland Agency, later Broder Webb Chervin Silbermann, and worked at ICM before teaming with longtime client Chuck Lorre to be an executive at his company, died Sept. 23 from cancer surrounded by family. He was 85.

Broder had been hard at work until the end, putting together staffing and attending tapings for Lorre’s shows. His death leaves a major void in the community.

“He elevated the idea of what it means to be an agent,” Ted Chervin said. “He operated at a level of such sophistication and complexity and authority that he really changed the game. He had a real statesman-like quality to him in the way he led the agency, and the way he managed his clients, and the way he interacted with the rest of the commu

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