BOCA RATON, Fla. — Sy Sperling, the founder of Hair Club for Men, died after an illness in Boca Raton, Florida, on Wednesday, said company vice president Rich Narcisi. Sperling was 78. Sperling is ...

Hair Club for Men founder Sy Sperling has died in Florida. Sperling became famous in the 1980s for his ubiquitous commercials featuring before and after photos of his clients, ending with him ...

Sy Sperling, the founder of Hair Club for Men who became a pop culture icon thanks to his company’s ubiquitous, charmingly awkward ads, died Wednesday following a long illness. He was 78. Sperling was ...

On the path to becoming a cultural icon, Sy Sperling did hundreds of interviews. In one, the questioner pulled his hair. “I move the moussed hair around, even tug it a bit,” wrote Jimmy Guterman in ...

Sy Sperling, the founder of Hair Club for Men who became a pop culture icon thanks to his company’s ubiquitous, charmingly awkward ads, died Wednesday following a long illness. He was 78. Sperling was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Sy Sperling, the founder of Hair Club for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Sy Sperling, the founder of Hair Club for ...

This article originally appeared in The New York Times. Sy Sperling, a businessman who helped bring the hair-loss industry into the mainstream with ubiquitous, self-effacing ads, died Wednesday at a ...