New Yorker profile, Singer repeated an industry joke that Cohn's tombstone would read, "Here lies Sam Cohn. He'll get back to you." The character Arnold Moss, a paper-eating talent agent based on Cohn, was created by Nora Ephron and portrayed by Dan Aykroyd in Ephron's 1992 film This Is My Life. Cohn's client list and influence waned in later years; and, in 1999, he left his position as the head of ICM's New York office. He remained a member of ICM's board of directors until 2005 and continued to work at ICM until retiring in early 2009. The Variety article reporting his retirement noted: "Hanging onto his trademark ways to the very end, Cohn did not return a call from Daily Variety for comment." Cohn died in May 2009 in Manhattan after a short illness; he was 79. Personal life Cohn was married three times, including to Jane Gelfman at the time of his death. He had a daughter, Marya, a son, Peter, and four grandchildren. Cohn also dated actress and client Dianne Wiest for three years in the mid-1980s. References 1929 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews American talent agents Jewish American military personnel Culver Academies alumni People from Altoona, Pennsylvania Princeton University alumni United States Army soldiers Yale Law School alumni