Scott Manners, a veteran expertise agent who co-founded Artists & Representatives, died Friday, Jan. 19. He was 68.

He died at dwelling in Los Angeles, surrounded by his household, after a bout of ALS.

The companions at Artists & Representatives introduced Manners’ passing in an announcement, writing, “By the years, we now have every been moved by his dedication and mission to brilliantly characterize the artists who deliver our society nearer to like. It was his life’s work to make a distinction every single day and alter lives for the higher.”

Manners’ work in Hollywood extends way back to 1978, when he landed an appearing position in “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band.” He co-founded the boutique expertise company Stone Manners with Tim Stone almost 4 a long time in the past. In 2010, after Glenn Salners was promoted to companion, the company rebranded to Stone Manners Salners. And the corporate was renamed once more in 2019, to Artists & Representatives, because it added extra companions and expanded to New York.

At Artists & Representatives, Manners represented actors together with Alex Mandell (“A Good Particular person”), Reza Salazar (“Inside Amy Schumer”) and Kevin William Paul (“Backside of the ninth”).

Struggling to search out phrases to convey Manners’ affect, the Artists & Representatives companions pointed to a Eugene O’Neill quote that Manners usually recited. The quote goes: “The individuals who succeed and don’t push on to a higher failure are the religious center class. The person who pursues the mere attainable needs to be sentenced to get it — and maintain it. Let him relaxation on his laurels and enthrone him in a Morris chair, wherein laurels and hero might wither collectively. Solely by the unattainable does man obtain a hope value residing and dying for — and so attain himself.”

The companions added, “Scott by no means ceased pushing for the following ‘unattainable’ after every victory, whereas inspiring hope and fervour in everybody who knew him.”