Cinamour CEO Glen Hartford dies

June 02, 2009 Glen Hartford, the chairman, CEO and founder of production and distribution company Cinamour Entertainment, died May 31 in an apparent suicide. Hartford's death comes less than two weeks after the company completed its most successful effort at the Cannes Film Festival, said Cord Douglas, who has served as Cinamour's distribution president since its founding in June 2000. It's behind such TV series as "Haunted Hotels," "Saving the Endangered Species" and a follow-up to "America's Toughest Bounty Hunters" and recent films like "Finding Bliss," starring Leelee Sobieski and Jamie Kennedy; "Silent Venom," starring Luke Perry and Tom Berenger, which will air on Sci Fi; and "Christmas Clause," starring Lea Thompson, to air on ABC Family and Ion.

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