This award was named in memory of the

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prominent actor and Actors' Equity Association worker Philip Loeb, who committed suicide in 1955 after losing his craft to

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. The award honors an Equity member "who has performed a unique and outstanding service on behalf of his or her fellow members and whose quality of service, ideas and contribution has set him or her apart from others; someone who truly perpetuates the legacy inherited from Philip Loeb."

Recipients

* William Ross * Iggie Wolfington * Florida Friebus * Edith MeiserEquity News, September 1986 (pg. 3)

References

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