Richard S. Kahlenberg

Richard was a friend to the Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles and an advisor to the Literacy in Media Awards, which honored producers and writers whose productions featured the importance of literacy. I was the Executive Director at the time and am thankful for his wisdom and support, as I’m sure is also remembered and appreciated by the entire Board of Directors from that time. Our paths had crossed years before when he was a widely respected literary agent as well. He is and will be...

I will never forget him - he was an ever-dynamic, unfailing friend and inspiration. If you subtract Richard Kahlenberg from my life then the Paul Davids of today does not exist - the happy, fulfilled, successful creative person I am today would never have lived the life I have lived - never have known about and been drawn into the Center for Advanced Film Studies at its very beginning, and I would never have known about and gone to work (with Richard) at the fabulous Paul Kohner Agency. He...

Richard Kahlenberg was a wonderful and caring mentor in my early career. He suggested I apply to the AFI Center for Advanced Film Studies and I was accepted as one of the first 15 Fellows of AFI. He was responsible for arranging for me to be hired by Paul Kohner to work at the prestigious Paul Kohner Agency, where I remained for about 5 years before embarking on a career as a producer and director and writer. Richard was one of the most far-sighted, expansive, capable and gifted men I ever...