- Has two children, Mandie and Jim.
- Served on the board of the Ojai Film Festival.
- Honored by The Caucus for Writers, Producers and Directors.
- Honored by the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters.
- Co-founded Katz/Rush Entertainment with Raymond Katz, which produced The New Original Amateur Hour, The Susan Powter Show, Miss America: Behind The Crown and Nite Cap.
- In 1951 he began his career in television, working first as a salesman for Official Film before moving up to several different leadership positions.
- In 1957 he purchased Flamingo Films, a television syndication firm, and turned it into a major independent syndication company.
- His uncle Manie Sacks was Frank Sinatra's first manager.
- Represented producer Irwin Allen during his time making TV hits such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.
- He was appointed president of Marble Arch Television, the American subsidiary of Lord Lew Grades' Associated Communications Limited, in 1979, but the following year was named president of Columbia Pictures Television Group.
- In the late 1960s he acquired properties from British entertainment titan Lord Lew Grade. One of them was the popular sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, which was later shopped to Norman Lear, who turned it into All in the Family. Rush also repackaged and produced a number of BBC comedy TV series for American audiences, including For the Love of Ada (A Touch of Grace) and Love Thy Neighbor.
- From 1971 to 1976 he served as an independent TV packager and producer and produced several TV movies and comedy series at ABC. During that time, he also executive produced the ABC Bicentennial Special, The American Spirit and Death Stalk, in association with David Wolper Productions.
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