Harrison Ford's longtime agent Patricia McQueeney has died in Santa Monica, Calif., after a brief illness at age 77.
McQueeney died Sept. 4 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
She was still professionally linked with Ford at the time of her death. Their 35-year relationship was unusually long by fickle Hollywood standards, the Times said.
When McQueeney first met Ford, he was in his 20s and working as a carpenter. She told Daily Variety in 1994 she remembered looking at his glowering face and wondering, "What in the world am I going to do with him?"
McQueeney's entertainment career spanned five decades. She began as a top New York model under the name Patricia Scott and did TV ads for Revlon, AT&T and Eastman Kodak, among others, and was a regular on NBC's "Today" show in the early 1960s.
She moved to California in 1964 and continued to shoot TV ads before going into personal management in the early 1970s.
In 1982, she was appointed to represent personal managers on the California Entertainment Commission, which was responsible for rewriting the rules and regulations governing personal managers and talent agents in the state.
She is survived by three children and six grandchildren.
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