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     • Wilhelm Fried Fuchs (Hungarian: Fried Vilmos; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), commonly and better known as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.
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   Who is William Fox?

   • Wilhelm Fried Fuchs ( Hungarian: Fried Vilmos; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), commonly and better known as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.

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   Who founded Fox Film Corporation?

   • He formed the Fox Film Corporation on February 1, 1915, with insurance and banking money provided by the McCarter, Kuser and Usar families of Newark, New Jersey, and the small New Jersey investment house of Eisele and King.

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   Did anyone ever write a William Fox biography?

   • No wonder no one had ever written a William Fox biography. Still, there seemed to be good reasons to try. Through my 15-year friendship with Fox's niece, the late Angela Fox Dunn, I'd heard many lively stories about "Uncle Bill" and had learned about his staggering list of accomplishments.

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   Who were William Fox parents?

   • William Fox was born in Tulchva, Hungary on January 1, 1879. His parents, Michael Fox, a machinist, and Anna Fried Fox, brought their son to the United States as an infant. He was educated in New York City schools. On his twenty-first birthday, Fox married Eva Leo; they had two daughters.

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   Wilhelm Fried Fuchs (Hungarian: Fried Vilmos; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), commonly and better known as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.

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   William Fox. Producer: 7th Heaven. Starting at the age 8 he had a series of jobs before starting his own business in 1900, which was sold to buy a Brooklyn nickelodeon in 1904. As the new owner with an empty house, Fox hired a coin manipulator and a barker to attract patrons into the dark 146-seat theatre.

   • Birth Date: January 1, 1
   • Birth Place: Tolcsva, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

   • Death Date: January 1, 1
   • Death Place: New York City, New York, USA

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   William Fox (born Jan. 1, 1879, Tulchva, Hung.—died May 8, 1952, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was an American motion-picture executive who built a multimillion-dollar empire controlling a large portion of the exhibition, distribution, and production of film facilities during the era of silent film.

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   Apr 8, 2021 · Over one hundred years ago, a Brooklyn-based movie impresario named William Fox helped shape the direction of the nascent motion picture industry, building a film-production empire in New Jersey and New York and operating a string of theaters that would introduce millions to the possibilities of moving pictures.

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   May 18, 2018 · William Fox (1879-1952), was a creative businessman whose films influenced the lives of millions of people around the world. William Fox was born in Tulchva, Hungary on January 1, 1879. His parents, Michael Fox, a machinist, and Anna Fried Fox, brought their son to the United States as an infant.

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    Data from America's Historical Newspapers helped me solve one of my big challenges, which was to figure out how exactly William Fox became so successful so quickly as a movie producer. Previously a prosperous New York area exhibitor and distributor, Fox began making movies in mid-1914 and in early 1915 formed the Fox Film Corporation, based in ...

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    Jan 31, 2020 · By Richard Brody. January 31, 2020. William Fox with his wife and daughter. Photograph from Bettmann / Getty. Disney, having engulfed the movie division of Fox, is renaming its acquisition:...