Richard Rusty Toshack
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Richard Rusty Toshack (born on 19th November, 1899) is an UnCategorized who was best known for something. Richard Rusty Toshack died on a given date and the death of Richard Rusty Toshack was because of a reason....
Richard Rusty Toshack's Biography Stats:
- Full Name: Richard Delilah Jemima Toshack
- Birthplace: Delaware City, Delaware
- Birth Date: 19th November, 1899
- Place of Death: Los Angeles
- Death Date: 19th of November 1999
- Also Known As: Rusty
- Category/Genre: Musician
- Nationality: American
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Claim to Fame:
Richard "Rusty" Toshack died on the same date - 19th of November - on which he was born exactly one hundred years prior. His life spanned what has become known as "The American Century" and he - maybe more than any other American - can justifiably claim to have lived his entire life at the centre of the events that have come to define the last hundred years.
Moving effortlessly through the worlds of showbusiness, politics, business and art, Toshack mixed with the great and good - as well as the not-so-great and the not-so-good - of American life. During his career in the music & film business he worked with, among others, Al Jolson, Bob Hope, Katherine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Woody Guthrie and a young Martin Scorcese. In business, Toshack was partners for a time with legendary American titans such as Howard Hughes and the Rockefeller family.
In the late 1960s Toshack became something of a political soulmate of the Republican senator - and later President - Richard M. Nixon, aiding Mr Nixon in acquiring financing and other means of support for the Senator's Presidential campaign. The two men later fell out over the Nixon's handling of the domestic student protest movement. Rumours have long circulated Washington that Toshack was somehow responsible for Mr Nixon's downfall as a result of the Watergate controversy. It has been suggested that Toshack fed details of Mr Nixon's business dealings with Howard Hughes to the novelist Clifford Irving who, subsequently, wrote an "autobiography" of the tycoon. Fearing that the book contained devastating information regarding Hughes' 1956 loan of $205,000 to his brother Donald, Mr Nixon reacted by instigating the break-in of Democrat offices at the Watergate hotel complex. Toshack always denied these rumours but the silence from all parties involved has only fed the flames of this story in the intervening years.
After his dalliance with the world of politics, Toshack returned to the movie business in the late 1970s, forging a strong partnership with the science-fiction mogul George Lucas, as well as making the occasional foray into record production. Notable acts he worked with during this period included early singles from Sonic Youth, Big Black and Uncle Tupelo. Despite his advancing years, Toshack was beloved of the alternative-rock scene in the United States, mainly for the rich vein of "Golden Age" Hollywood anecdotes he never tired of regaling; many of these stories were somewhat on the salacious side and are barely publishable. Nonetheless, Mr Toshack was said to have completed his autobiography in the year before his death and plans to publish the work are ongoing.
Quotable Quotes:
"A man can't live on tweed alone." - reputedly 1942, but likely earlier.
"Who that? He that!" - chorus of Toshack's most famous record, 1955's "The Who That Blues"
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