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Lew Grade, Baron Grade, OStJ (born Lev Winogradsky; 25 December 1906 – 13 December 1998) was a Russian-born British media proprietor and impresario.
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- Liberal Jewish Cemetery, Willesden, London
- Russian (1906–1912), British (1912–1998)
Mini Bio. Sir Lew (later Lord) Grade, the English entertainment impresario whom critics loved to disparage as "Sir Low Grade," was born Louis. Winogradsky on December 25, 1906, in Tokmak, Ukraine, in the former Russian Empire. His parents, Olga and Isaac, who were Jewish, emigrated to England in 1912 to escape the pogroms of their native land.
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- December 13, 1998
Biography. Awards. Trivia. IMDbPro. All topics. Lew Grade (1906-1998) Producer. Additional Crew. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Sir Lew (later Lord) Grade, the English entertainment impresario whom critics loved to disparage as "Sir Low Grade," was born Louis Winogradsky on December 25, 1906, in Tokmak, Ukraine, in the former Russian Empire.
- Producer, Additional Crew
- December 25, 1906
- Lew Grade
- December 13, 1998
FOR OVER 70 years Lew Grade was a leading figure in British show business. While still in his teens he had become a dancer specialising in the Charleston. Even when he was in his sixties he...
Lew Grade, Baron Grade of Elstree was a Russian-born British motion picture, television, and theatrical producer. The son of a Jewish tailor’s assistant, he immigrated with his family to England in 1912 and dropped out of school at age 14 to help in the family business.
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Lew Grade is probably the closest the British television industry has ever come to having a genuine showbusiness mogul. A flamboyant and canny operator, for a quarter of a century he was the best-known figure in independent television, and certainly one of the most powerful.
Lew Grade, a titan of the British entertainment industry, died Sunday in London at age 91. For many years, he was a colorful fixture at the Cannes Film Festival, where after the box office failure of his film "Raise the Titanic!" he held a press conference to announce, "It would have been less costly to lower the ocean."
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