2010 in American television
Deaths -- May
Table:
Date
Name
Age
Notability
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May 1

Helen Wagner

91

Actress (As the World Turns)

[429]

May 2

Lynn Redgrave

67

Actress (House Calls, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, spokesperson for Weight Watchers)

[430]

May 4

Ernie Harwell

92

TV/radio sportscaster (voice of the Detroit Tigers for 42 seasons, called the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" on TV, recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award).

[431]

May 9

Lena Horne

92

Actress, singer and entertainer (hosted her own special in 1969 and 1973; performed on Kraft Music Hall, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Judy Garland Show, The Hollywood Palace, and The Andy Williams Show)

[432]

May 12

Allan Manings

86

TV creator and screenwriter (McHale's Navy, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Good Times, One Day at a Time)

[433]

May 19

Martin Cohan

77

Screenwriter and producer (Diff'rent Strokes, Silver Spoons, Who's the Boss?)

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May 28

Gary Coleman

42

Actor, politician and former child star, best known as Arnold Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes

[434]

May 29

Dennis Hopper

74

Director and actor (Crash, spokesperson for Ameriprise Financial)

[435]

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Helen Losee Wagner ( September 3 , 1918 - May 1 , 2010 ) was an American actress . Born in Lubbock , Texas , she is best known for her long-running role as Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera As the World Turns . After appearing in the soap opera for some 50 years , at the time of her death she was the longest serving actor on an American soap opera . She played the role of Trudy Bauer during the initial TV years of Guiding Light in the early 1950s . She appeared on the early soap Valiant Lady , as well as on primetime programs including The World of Mr. Sweeney , Mister Peepers , Inner Sanctum , and the Philco-Goodyear Playhouse .
As the World Turns ( often referred to as ATWT ) is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2 , 1956 , to September 17 , 2010 . Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light . Running for 54 years , As the World Turns holds the third-longest continuous run of any daytime network soap opera on American television , surpassed only by General Hospital and Guiding Light . [ a ] As the World Turns was produced for the first 43 years in Manhattan and in Brooklyn from 2000 until 2010 . Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , Illinois , the show debuted on April 2 , 1956 , at 1:30 pm EST , airing as a 30-minute serial . Prior to that date , all serials had been 15 minutes in length . As the World Turns and The Edge of Night , which premiered on the same day at 4:30 pm EST , were the first two to be 30 minutes in length from their premiere . At first , viewers were indifferent to the new half-hour serial , but ratings picked up in its second year , eventually reaching the top spot in the daytime Nielsen ratings by fall 1958 . In 1959 , the show started a streak of weekly ratings wins that was not interrupted for over 12 years . The show switched to color on August 21 , 1967 , and expanded from a half-hour in length to one hour starting on December 1 , 1975 , when The Edge of Night moved to ABC . In the year-to-date ratings , As the World Turns was the most-watched daytime drama from 1958 until 1978 , with ten million viewers tuning in each day . At its height , core actors such as Helen Wagner , Don MacLaughlin , Don Hastings , and Eileen Fulton became nationally known .
Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE ( 8 March 1943 - 2 May 2010 ) was an English and American actress . She won 2 Golden Globe Awards , was a two-time Oscar nominee and received Emmy and Tony nominations . A member of the Redgrave family of actors , Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962 . By the mid-1960s she had appeared in several films , including Tom Jones ( 1963 ) and Georgy Girl ( 1966 ) , which won her a New York Film Critics Award , a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy as well as earning her a nomination for an Academy Award . She made her Broadway debut in 1967 , and performed in several stage productions in New York while making frequent returns to London 's West End . She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London , and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ? in 1991 . She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as Shine ( 1996 ) and Gods and Monsters ( 1998 ) for which she received her second Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe Award For Best Supporting Actress . Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four ' American entertainment awards ( Grammy , Emmy , Oscar , and Tony ) without winning any of them .
House Calls is an American sitcom that lasted three seasons and 57 episodes , from December 17 , 1979 to September 13 , 1982 , on CBS television , produced by Universal Television and based upon the 1978 feature film of the same name .
What Ever Happened to . ( also known as What Ever Happened to Baby Jane. ? ) is a 1991 American made-for-television thriller film directed by David Greene and adapted for the small screen by Brian Taggert . It is based on the novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ? by Henry Farrell and the 1962 theatrical film of the same name . It stars real-life sisters Lynn Redgrave as Baby Jane Hudson and Vanessa Redgrave as Blanche Hudson , in the roles previously played by Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in the 1962 adaptation . The film was adapted to contemporary times , with Blanche 's film success taking place in the 1960s instead of the 1930s . Her films were being rediscovered on home video instead of television reruns . Jane had been a child film star ( replacing the original 's vaudeville success ) , though her films were unavailable , leading to her jealousy .
WW International , Inc. , formerly Weight Watchers International , Inc. , is a global company headquartered in the U.S. that offers various products and services to assist in healthy habits , including weight loss and maintenance , fitness , and mindset such as the Weight Watchers comprehensive diet program . Founded in 1963 by Queens , New York City homemaker Jean Nidetch , WW 's program has three options as of 2019 : online via its mobile app and website , coaching online or by phone , or in-person meetings . The company says the new name reflects its development from focusing on weight loss to overall health and wellness . On September 24 , 2018 , the company announced a rebrand to WW taking effect immediately , to reflect , its development from focusing on weight loss to overall health and wellness .
William Earnest Ernie Harwell ( January 25 , 1918 - May 4 , 2010 ) was an American sportscaster , known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games . For 55 seasons , 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers , Harwell called the action on radio and/or television . In January 2009 , the American Sportscasters Association ranked Harwell 16th on its list of Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time .
The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit , Michigan . They compete in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) as a member of the American League ( AL ) Central division . One of the AL 's eight charter franchises , the club was founded in Detroit as a member of the minor league Western League in 1894 and is the only Western League team still in its original city . They are also the oldest continuous one name , one city franchise in the AL . Since their establishment as a major league franchise in 1901 , the Tigers have won four World Series championships ( 1935 , 1945 , 1968 , and 1984 ) , 11 AL pennants ( 1907 , 1908 , 1909 , 1934 , 1935 , 1940 , 1945 , 1968 , 1984 , 2006 , 2012 ) , and four AL Central division championships ( 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , and 2014 ) . They also won division titles in 1972 , 1984 , and 1987 as a member of the AL East . The team currently plays its home games at Comerica Park in Downtown Detroit . The Tigers constructed Bennett Park at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Trumbull Avenue in Corktown ( just west of Downtown Detroit ) and began playing there in 1896 . In 1912 , the team moved into Navin Field , which was built on the same location . It was expanded in 1938 and renamed Briggs Stadium . It was renamed Tiger Stadium in 1961 and the Tigers played there until moving to Comerica Park in 2000 . From 1901 to 2019 , the Tigers ' overall win-loss record is 9,346-9,191 ( a winning percentage of .504 ) .
In baseball , the Shot Heard 'Round the World was a game-winning home run by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3 , 1951 , to win the National League ( NL ) pennant . Thomson 's dramatic three-run homer came in the ninth inning of the decisive third game of a three-game playoff for the pennant in which the Giants trailed , 4-1 . The game - the first ever televised nationally - was seen by millions of viewers across America and heard on radio by millions more , including thousands of American servicemen stationed in Korea , listening on Armed Forces Radio . The classic drama of snatching victory from defeat to secure a pennant was intensified by the epic cross-town rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers , and by a remarkable string of victories in the last weeks of the regular season by the Giants , who won 37 of their last 44 games to catch the first-place Dodgers and force a playoff series to decide the NL champion . The Giants ' late-season rally and 2-to-1-game playoff victory , capped by Thomson 's moment of triumph , are collectively known in baseball lore as The Miracle of Coogan 's Bluff , a descriptor coined by the legendary sports columnist Red Smith . The phrase shot heard 'round the world is from the poem Concord Hymn ( 1837 ) by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the first clash of the American Revolutionary War . It later became popularly associated with Thomson 's homer and several other dramatic historical moments .
The Ford C. Frick Award is presented annually by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in the United States to a broadcaster for major contributions to baseball . It is named for Ford C. Frick , former Commissioner of Major League Baseball . Before his career as an executive , Frick was a baseball writer ; he gained fame as the ghostwriter for Babe Ruth in the 1920s . The award was created in 1978 , and named in tribute to Frick following his death that year . Though they are sometimes erroneously referred to as Hall of Famers , honorees are not inducted into the Hall of Fame . Honorees ( if living ) give a speech at the Hall of Fame during induction weekend , and their names are added to a plaque in the Hall 's library . For several years in the early 2000s , Frick Award honorees also became life members of the Veterans Committee , which considers candidates for Hall of Fame induction who are not eligible for the regular voting by the Baseball Writers ' Association of America - specifically , players no longer on the BBWAA ballot and all non-players . However , starting with the 2008 elections , voting for players on the main Veterans Committee ballot was restricted to Hall of Fame members . After further changes announced for the 2011 elections , Frick Award winners are eligible to serve on the voting bodies that replaced the Veterans Committee ( currently four ) that consider candidates from different eras of baseball . From 2004 to 2016 , fans were allowed to vote for three of the award 's ten annual nominees ; in the final years of fan voting , it was conducted on the Hall 's Facebook page . Through 2013 , seven candidates were selected by a committee consisting of previous Frick Award winners and broadcast historians and columnists , which also determined the final recipient . Beginning with the 2014 award , the final election committee no longer selects any of the finalists ; that role is now handled by a Hall of Fame research committee .
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne ( June 30 , 1917 - May 9 , 2010 ) was an American singer , dancer , actress , and civil rights activist . Horne 's career spanned over 70 years , appearing in film , television , and theater . Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood . Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer , Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963 and continued to work as a performer , both in nightclubs and on television while releasing well-received record albums . She announced her retirement in March 1980 , but the next year starred in a one-woman show , Lena Horne : The Lady and Her Music , which ran for more than 300 performances on Broadway . She then toured the country in the show , earning numerous awards and accolades . Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s , disappearing from the public eye in 2000 . Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9 , 2010 , at the age of 92 .
The Kraft Music Hall was a popular old-time radio variety program , featuring top show business entertainers , which aired first on NBC radio from 1933 to 1949 .
The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20 , 1948 , to June 6 , 1971 , and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan . It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie . In 2002 , The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked # 15 on TV Guide 's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time . In 2013 , the series finished No . 31 in TV Guide Magazine 's 60 Best Series of All Time .
The Dean Martin Show , not to be confused with the Dean Martin Variety Show ( 1959-1960 ) , is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes . It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin . The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit Everybody Loves Somebody .
The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963-1964 television season . Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland , CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star . Garland , who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series , saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties . Despite it being cancelled relatively early on , it is now revered and considered an important piece of television history . Production difficulties beset the series almost from the beginning . The series had three different producers in the course of its 26 episodes and went through a number of other key personnel changes . With the change in producers also came changes to the show 's format , which started as comedy and variety but switched to an almost purely concert format . While Garland herself was popular with critics , the initial variety format and her co-star , Jerry Van Dyke , were not . The show competed with NBC 's Bonanza , then the second most popular program on television , and consistently performed poorly in the ratings . Although fans rallied in an attempt to save the show , CBS cancelled it after a single season . TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were Cancelled Too Soon .
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly Saturday nights ( except September 1967 to January 1968 , when it was seen Monday nights ) on ABC from January 4 , 1964 , to February 7 , 1970 . Titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace during its first few weeks , it began as a midseason replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show , another variety show , which had lasted only three months . It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse ( where Lewis ' series had originated , temporarily renamed The Jerry Lewis Theater from September through December 1963 ) on Vine Street , which was renamed the Hollywood Palace during the show 's duration and subsequently renamed Avalon Hollywood . A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the Billboard Girl , who placed the names of the acts on a placard ( similar to that of a vaudeville house ) . The show 's musical theme was a fast-paced instrumental rendition of Put On a Happy Face from the 1960 Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie .
The Andy Williams Show was an American television variety show that ran from 1962 to 1971 ( alternating during the summer of 1970 with Andy Williams Presents Ray Stevens ) , and a short-lived run in syndication , beginning in the fall of 1976 . It was hosted by crooner Andy Williams .
Allan Manings ( March 28 , 1924 - May 12 , 2010 ) was an American television producer and comedy writer . He was active in the 1950s , 1960s , 1970s and 1980s and was best known for his work in co-creating with his wife , actress Whitney Blake , One Day at a Time , as well as serving as producer ( and later executive producer ) of the Bud Yorkin-Norman Lear Tandem show , Good Times . Manings was born in Newark , New Jersey to a Jewish family , and was raised on Staten Island . He served in the United States Army during World War II in the Pacific theater . After completing his military service , he went to college on the GI Bill as one of the first men to attend the newly coeducational Sarah Lawrence College . Manings felt uneasy during the McCarthyist period , during which time several friends were blacklisted , and moved to Canada until the early 1960s . He worked as a writer and script supervisor on Rowan & Martin 's Laugh-In in the 1960s , for which he received an Emmy . He also wrote episodes of McHale 's Navy and Leave It to Beaver .
McHale 's Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons , from October 11 , 1962 , to April 12 , 1966 , on the ABC television network . The series was filmed in black and white and originated from an hour drama entitled Seven Against the Sea , broadcast on April 3 , 1962 . The ABC series spawned three feature films : McHale 's Navy ( 1964 ) ; a sequel , McHale 's Navy Joins the Air Force ( 1965 ) ; and a much later 1997 sequel-remake of the original series .
Rowan & Martin 's Laugh-In ( often simply referred to as Laugh-In ) is an American sketch comedy television program that ran for 140 episodes from January 22 , 1968 , to March 12 , 1973 , on the NBC television network , hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin . It originally aired as a one-time special on September 9 , 1967 , and was such a success that it was brought back as a series , replacing The Man from U.N.C.L.E . on Mondays at 8 pm ( ET ) . It quickly became the most popular television show in the United States . The title of the show was a play on the 1960s hippie culture love-ins or the counterculture be-ins , terms that were derived from sit-ins that were common in protests associated with civil rights and antiwar demonstrations of the time . In 2002 , Rowan & Martin 's Laugh-In was ranked number 42 on TV Guide 's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time . Laugh-In had its roots in the humor of vaudeville and burlesque , but its most direct influences were Olsen and Johnson 's comedies ( such as the free-form Broadway revue Hellzapoppin ' ) , the innovative television works of Ernie Kovacs , and the topical satire of That Was The Week That Was . The show was characterized by a rapid-fire series of gags and sketches , many of which conveyed sexual innuendo or were politically charged . The co-hosts continued the exasperated straight man ( Rowan ) and dumb guy ( Martin ) act which they had established as nightclub comics . [ page needed ] The show featured Gary Owens as the on-screen announcer and permanent castmember Ruth Buzzi , alongside a frequently changing cast ; longer-tenured cast members included Judy Carne , Henry Gibson , Goldie Hawn , Arte Johnson , Jo Anne Worley , Lily Tomlin and Richard Dawson .
Good Times is an American sitcom that aired for six seasons on CBS , from February 8 , 1974 to August 1 , 1979 . Created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans and developed by executive producer Norman Lear , it was television 's first African American two-parent family sitcom . Good Times is a spin-off of Maude , itself a spin-off of All in the Family .
One Day at a Time is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from December 16 , 1975 , until May 28 , 1984 . It starred Bonnie Franklin as a divorced mother raising two teenaged daughters in Indianapolis . The daughters were played by Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli .
Martin Paul Cohan ( July 4 , 1932 - May 19 , 2010 ) credited as Marty Cohan , was an American television producer and writer . Cohan co-created the sitcom , Who 's the Boss ? , which aired on ABC from 1984 until 1992 , with business partner , Blake Hunter . Cohan is also credited with creating Silver Spoons , which ran on NBC from 1982 to 1987 and launched the career of actor Rick Schroder .
Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from November 3 , 1978 to May 4 , 1985 and on ABC from September 27 , 1985 to March 7 , 1986 . The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson , two African-American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond ( Conrad Bain ) and his daughter Kimberly ( Dana Plato ) , for whom their deceased mother previously worked . During the first season and first half of the second season , Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds ' housekeeper , Mrs. Edna Garrett , who ultimately spun off into her own sitcom , The Facts of Life . The second housekeeper , Adelaide Brubaker , was played by Nedra Volz . The third housekeeper , Pearl Gallagher , was played by Mary Jo Catlett , appearing first as a recurring character before eventually becoming a main cast member . The series made stars out of child actors Gary Coleman , Todd Bridges and Dana Plato and became known for the very special episodes in which serious issues such as racism , illegal drug use , alcoholism , hitchhiking , kidnapping and child sexual abuse were dramatically explored . The lives of these stars were later plagued by legal troubles and drug addiction , with Plato and Coleman suffering early deaths .
Silver Spoons is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 25 , 1982 , to May 11 , 1986 , and in first-run syndication from September 15 , 1986 , to March 4 , 1987 . The series was produced by Embassy Television for the first four seasons , until Embassy Communications moved the series to syndication . Silver Spoons was created by Martin Cohan , Howard Leeds and Ben Starr .
Who 's the Boss ? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter , which aired on ABC from September 20 , 1984 , to April 25 , 1992 . Produced by Hunter-Cohan Productions in association with Embassy Television ( later Embassy Communications and ELP Communications ) and Columbia Pictures Television , the series starred Tony Danza as an Italian-American former major league baseball player who relocates to Fairfield , Connecticut , to work as a live-in housekeeper for a divorced advertising executive , played by Judith Light . Also featured were Alyssa Milano , Danny Pintauro and Katherine Helmond . The show became one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid-to-late 1980s . The series was nominated for more than forty awards , including ten Primetime Emmy Award and five Golden Globe Award nominations , winning one of each . Also very successful in the ratings , Who 's the Boss ? consistently ranked in the top ten in the final primetime ratings between the years of 1985 and 1989 , and has since continued in syndication worldwide .
Gary Wayne Coleman ( February 8 , 1968 - May 28 , 2010 ) was an American actor , comedian , and writer whom VH1 rated first on a list of 100 Greatest Child Stars on television . He was best known for his role as Arnold Jackson in Diff'rent Strokes ( 1978-1986 ) . Coleman was also the star of the animated-show The Gary Coleman Show ( 1982 ) , and appeared in the feature films On the Right Track ( 1981 ) , Jimmy the Kid ( 1982 ) , An American Carol ( 2008 ) , and Midgets vs . Mascots ( 2009 ) . After a successful childhood acting career , Coleman struggled financially in later life . In 1989 , he successfully sued his parents and business adviser over misappropriation of his assets , only to declare bankruptcy a decade later . On May 28 , 2010 , Coleman died of a subdural hematoma at age 42 .
This is a list of characters from the NBC and ABC sitcom Diff'rent Strokes .
Dennis Lee Hopper ( May 17 , 1936 - May 29 , 2010 ) was an American actor , filmmaker , photographer , and artist . He attended the Actors Studio , made his first television appearance in 1954 , and soon after appeared alongside James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause ( 1955 ) , and Giant ( 1956 ) . In the next ten years he made a name in television , and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in several films , notably Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ) and Hang 'Em High ( 1968 ) . Hopper also began a prolific and acclaimed photography career in the 1960s . Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider ( 1969 ) , which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern . The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best First Work and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ( shared with Fonda and Southern ) . Journalist Ann Hornaday wrote : With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies , Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s , a celluloid anthem to freedom , macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion . Film critic Matthew Hays wrote no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper . Following the critical and commercial failure of his second film as director , The Last Movie ( 1971 ) , he worked on various independent and foreign projects - in which he was frequently typecast as mentally disturbed outsiders in such films as Mad Dog Morgan ( 1976 ) and The American Friend ( 1977 ) - until he found new fame for his role as an American photojournalist in Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) . He went on to helm his third directorial work Out of the Blue ( 1980 ) , for which he was again honored at Cannes , and appeared in Rumble Fish ( 1983 ) and The Osterman Weekend ( 1983 ) . He saw a career resurgence in 1986 when he was widely acclaimed for his performances in Blue Velvet and Hoosiers , the latter of which saw him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . His fourth directorial outing came about through Colors ( 1988 ) , followed by an Emmy-nominated lead performance in Paris Trout ( 1991 ) .
Crash is an American television drama series set in Los Angeles , California that starred Dennis Hopper and Eric Roberts . It is the first original series produced by the Starz network . The network ordered a 13 episode season which premiered on October 17 , 2008 . The series is based on the 2004 film of the same title . It was developed for television by Glen Mazzara . In Canada , Crash can be seen on Super Channel . Starz ordered a second season that premiered in September 2009 before concluding in December 2009 .
Ameriprise Financial , Inc. is an American diversified financial services company . Ameriprise Financial engages in business through its subsidiaries , providing financial planning , products and services , including wealth management , asset management , insurance , annuities , and estate planning . Ameriprise Financial , Inc. , the holding company , is incorporated in Delaware . The company 's headquarters are in Minneapolis , Minnesota . James Cracchiolo is the chairman and chief executive officer . The company 's primary subsidiaries include Ameriprise Financial Services , Inc. , and RiverSource Life Insurance Company . Following a 2015 merger of Columbia Management and Threadneedle Asset Management , Columbia Threadneedle Investments , is Ameriprise Financial 's global asset management brand , and a provider of investments to institutional and retail clients .