Shapiro, who died Thursday of natural causes, represented such big names as Seinfeld, Andy Kaufman and Carl Reiner. “These guys came up … I didn’t even know what an agent was, but they came to see the show, to talk to the girls, talk to the comedians,” said Shapiro in a past Television Academy Foundation interview. “I said, ‘This is your job? To watch the show, to have a nice dinner, to come to a resort with a lake? I have to look into that.” Danny DeVito played Shapiro in Milos Forman's Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon. "A wonderful man named George Shapiro passed (Thursday) at age 91," tweeted Jason Alexander. "He was a key producer of SEINFELD. But more, his kindness and joyful optimism was a constant reminder to live life fully, gratefully and with as big a smile as possible. Thanks, George."
George Shapiro dies: Seinfeld producer and legendary talent manager to Jerry Seinfeld
