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As chairman of the new 20th Century Fox, he was one of the most powerful and influential people in the film business. Caught in a payoff scheme to buy peace with the militant unions, he was convicted of income tax evasion and spent time in prison before being granted a presidential pardon.
- Film studio executive
- Nicholas Schenck (brother)
- Ossip Schenker
- Maimonides Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
AMPAS awarded Schenck a special Oscar for services to the film industry in 1952. In 1953 he co-founded the Magna Corp. with Mike Todd to market the Todd-AO wide-screen system, which was wildly profitable (and remains a technological force in the movie industry to this day).
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- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- January 1, 1
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Joseph M. Schenck was a Hollywood producer and studio executive who worked with Marcus Loew and Nick Schenck. He produced films by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and D.W. Griffith, and was involved in the formation of United Artists and 20th Century-Fox. He also had a brief romance with Norma Talmadge and a tax evasion scandal.
- December 25, 1876
- October 22, 1961
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 22 -- Joseph M. Schenck, one of the last surviving giants of the motion picture industry, died today at his Beverly Hills home. He was 82 years old.
Actor. Married 1917; divorced. Russian immigrant who began acquiring amusement parks with his brother Nicholas in the teens and soon became allied with the Loew organization, where he graduated to a senior executive position.
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Joseph Michael Schenck (/ˈskɛŋk/; December 25, 1876 – October 22, 1961) was a Russian-born American film studio executive. Schenck was born to a Jewish family in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.
An early advocate of the "star system," Schenck was instrumental in settling disputes between the studios and the Screen Actors Guild in 1937 in which a walkout by...
