William Fox
William Fox · Arts & Literature
Founded Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox)
1879, Tolcsva, Kingdom of Hungary — 1952, New York City, United States
United States
Fox Film Corporation1915Hungarian-American motion picture executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox). He pioneered the use of sound on film with the Movietone sound system.
Fox was a Hungarian-born American film pioneer who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915, a forerunner of 20th Century Fox, and built a large chain of theaters. He was a Jewish immigrant, born to a Jewish family in Hungary who came to New York as an infant, and was among the founding generation of the Hollywood studio system.
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Founded Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox)
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