When it rains it pours… ‘Hardly Strictly’ creator Warren Hellman dead at 77 Warren Hellman, the San Francisco financier whose willingness to fund an unlikely range of passions made him a force in Bay Area politics, education and music, died Sunday evening from complications of leukemia, his family said. He was 77. Over the last ten or so years, Warren Hellman has brought an incredible amount of joy to Bay Area residents by sponsoring one dig deeper