Cass Warner, a filmmaker and writer born into Hollywood royalty and mom of Yellowstone actor Cole Hauser, has died. She was 76.
The granddaughter of Warner Bros. co-founder Harry Warner, Cass Warner’s dying was introduced by her son Hauser. Further info together with trigger and date of dying was not disclosed.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that my mom. Cass Sperling Warner handed away on the age of 76,” Hauser wrote on Instagram. “Her kindness, love, humor and wonderful spirit will probably be missed by not solely my household however the world. You might have touched so many. I do know you may be up within the heavens sitting subsequent to all the nice people which have handed by our earth. We’ll meet once more. Bye for now.”
Born March 8, 1948, Cass Warner was a self-described third-generation filmmaker. Her father was author/producer Milton Sperling, who was concerned in additional than 50 movies together with the Oscar-nominated 1955 drama The Court docket-Martial Of Billy Mitchell and the 1958 Gene Kelly-Natalie Wooden movie Marjorie Morningstar.
Cass’ mom was artist and activist Betty Warner Sheinbaum, the daughter of Hollywood pioneer Harry Warner.
In line with a biography on Cass Warner’s web site Warner Sisters, she was launched to filmmaking as a baby, attending story conferences together with her father and wandering the Warner Bros. lot. She studied appearing with director and coach Milton Katselas, and was mentored in screenwriting by her father in addition to Casablanca author Howard Koch.
In 1993, Warner revealed her private household saga Hollywood Be Thy Title–The Warner Brothers Story, updating the ebook in 2008 with extra info and pictures and new title The Brothers Warner. She directed a 2007 documentary adaptation of the ebook which later was aired on the PBS American Masters sequence.
Beneath her Warner Sisters banner, she developed the documentary Hopper: In His Personal Phrases (2012) about Dennie Hopper. She additionally created a nonprofit group known as The Dream Manufacturing facility that presents inspiration interviews with Hollywood stars and insiders.
Along with Hauser (her son with ex-husband Wings Hauser), Cass Warner is survived by husband Glenn Allan Pool; daughters Vanessa Mooney and Tao Gaines; son Jesse Pool; and three grandchildren.
