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Maintained by: Find a Grave. Added: Jul 10, 2000. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 10713. Source citation. Film Producer, Studio Executive, Motion Picture Pioneer. His company Famous Players merged with a company owned by Jesse L. Lasky & Samuel Goldwyn, eventually becoming Paramount Pictures. Became board chairman in 1935.
Adolph Zukor (/ ˈ z uː k ər /; Hungarian: Czukor Adolf; January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films , The Prisoner of Zenda , in 1913.
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Film Producer, Studio Executive, Motion Picture Pioneer. His company Famous Players merged with a company owned by Jesse L. Lasky & Samuel Goldwyn, eventually becoming Paramount Pictures. Became board chairman in 1935.
May 14, 2023 · About Adolph Zukor. Adolf Zukor, born Adolph Cukor, (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures. He was born to a Jewish family in Ricse, Hungary, which was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In 1889, at the age of 16, he emigrated to America. Like most immigrants, he began modestly.
Business-Minded Orphan. Born in Ricse, Hungary, in 1873, Adolph Zukor was orphaned by age seven. He was sent to live with his uncle, Kalman Liebermann, a rabbi who hoped Adolph would follow in his ...
Adolph Zukor. Adolf Cukor (Adolph Zukor) (January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976) was a pioneering film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures. Zukor was a key figure in the development of the powerful studio system that ran Hollywood from the late 1920s through the 1960s. He was known as the "father of the feature film in America."
Apr 17, 2024 · Adolph Zukor (born Jan. 7, 1873, Ricse, Hung.—died June 10, 1976, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) was an American entrepreneur who built the powerful Famous Players–Paramount motion-picture studio. Immigrating to the United States at age 15, Zukor entered the penny-arcade business in 1903. Between 1904 and 1912 he and his partner Marcus Loew ...
