Jerry B. Wheeler, 44, Hollywood producer

LOS ANGELES Jerry B. Wheeler, a film, television and theatricalproducer and writer, has died of complications of AIDS. He was 44.

Mr. Wheeler died Saturday in Los Angeles.

At the time of his death, Mr. Wheeler was producing the "TheFront Runner," a film based on Patricia Nell Warren's 1974 novelabout a college athletic coach's homosexual affair with a young trackstar.

Born in New York, Mr. Wheeler first worked as a child actor indaytime television shows.

Moving to Los Angeles in 1968, he coordinated production forsuch variety series as "The Carol Burnett Show," "The Red SkeltonShow," and the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."

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