Casting director and then agent Vic Ramos died 21 October 2007 of pulmonary failure, according to Sandy Erickson, his partner in New York-based Ramos Management (which he founded in 1981). Born in 1930 in Los Angeles, he “became a casting director almost by accident after walking into an acting audition for the ABC TV series Naked City (1958-63) and commenting that none of the extras looked like people he saw on the streets of New York. He was hired on the spot to cast extras in the popular police drama,” the Los Angeles Times quoted Erickson.
He was the casting director for several genre productions, including: Seeds of Evil (1975), Star Wars (1977), The World Beyond (1978), and Dressed to Kill (1980).
As an agent, he managed a small list of clients which included Matt Dillon, whom he discovered while casting him for Over the Edge in 1979.
Ramos’s wife, Virginia Loew, was the granddaughter of Marcus Loew, who formed MGM. She died in 1964. He had no immediate survivors.