Background
Orsatti was born Alfred Kendall Orsatti in Los Angeles in 1932. His father and two uncles were talent agents, who owned and operated a leading talent agency, the Orsatti Agency.
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Ken Orsatti
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University of Southern California.
Career
Orsatti was the national executive director of the Screen Actors Guild from 1981 to 2000. He received a bachelor"s degree in business administration from the University of Southern California in 1956. Orsatti became a business representative at the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (American Federation TV and Radio Artists) in 1960.
He left American Federation TV and Radio Artists in 1961 and joined the Screen Actors Guild (Screen Actors Guild).
He became the Screen Actors Guild"s Western regional director in 1966. He was promoted to Screen Actors Guild"s Hollywood executive secretary in 1971, a position he held until 1981.
Orsatti, became the executive director of the Screen Actors Guild in 1981. He negotiated and brokered more than 20 union contracts as Screen Actors Guild"s chief negotiator during his nineteen-year tenure.
In 1994, Orsatti told the Los Angeles Business Journal, "Someone once said that the perfect negotiation is one where both sides are unhappy.
There"s some truth to that." He retired from the Screen Actors Guild in 2000. Orsatti died on August 31, 2010, of pulmonary disease at West Hills Hospital in West Hills, Los Angeles, aged 78.
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