Jerry Tokofsky, the onetime William Morris agent and Columbia Pictures executive who didn’t think much of a young actor named Harrison Ford but went on to produce the acclaimed films Where’s Poppa? and Glengarry Glen Ross , has died. He was 91.

Tokofsky died Oct. 5 of natural causes at his home in New York City, his family announced.

Tokofsky also was a co-producer on the sci-fi thriller Dreamscape (1983), starring Dennis Quaid; the Abel Ferrara-directed crime thriller Fear City (1984), starring Tom Berenger and Billy Dee Williams; and the Charles Matthau-helmed, Stirling Silliphant-written The Grass Harp (1995), featuring Jack Lemmon and Piper Laurie in the adaptation of Truman Capote’s coming-of-age novel.

Jerry Tokofsky, the onetime William Morris agent and Columbia P

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