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- Death 5 Oct 1927 (aged 42) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA Burial Home of Peace Memorial Park East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA Show Map Plot Section D, Warner Family Mausoleum, Crypt #8
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10 Aug 1885. Krasnosielc, Powiat makowski, Mazowieckie, Poland. Death. 5 Oct 1927 (aged 42) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA. Burial. Home of Peace Memorial Park. East Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA Show Map. Plot. Section D, Warner Family Mausoleum, Crypt #8. Memorial ID. 4639. · View Source. Suggest Edits.
Sam Warner. Samuel Louis Warner (born Szmuel Wonsal, [1] [2] [3] August 10, 1887 – October 5, 1927) was an American film producer who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of Warner Bros. He established the studio along with his brothers Harry, Albert, and Jack L. Warner.
The mausoleum on the left contains the remains of a number of members of the famed Warner Bros. family, most notably the brothers’ parents, Benjamin Warner (1857–1935) and Pearl Leah Warner (1857–1934), and their son, Samuel Warner (August 10, 1885–October 5, 1927), one of the founders of Warner Bros. (Sam, Harry, Albert, and Jack).
However, Sam Warner didn't live to see the success of his company's greatest early achievement—a "talkie" or sound movie—in its first public showing. He died suddenly from cerebral hemmorrhage in the fall of 1927 at the age of 40. His untimely death occurred just one day before the commercial debut of The Jazz Singer. Chronology: Sam Warner
A big hand in developing “talkies”. In the mid-1920s, Sam Warner persuaded his brothers to implement revolutionary synchronized sound technology, which made the “talkies” possible. The ...
In 1923 Warner Bros. went public as a corporation with Harry as president, Sam the CEO, Albert the treasurer, and Jack the production chief. They launched an ambitious expansion campaign by acquiring the Vitagraph Company, Burbank-based First National Pictures (where they set up new headquarters), and a nationwide chain of theatres, but by 1927 ...
Jul 31, 1988 · Sam Warner, who had been largely responsible for the film, died of complications from a sinus infection the day before the movie premiered.
