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Spyros Panagiotis Skouras (/ ˈ s k ʊər ə s /; Greek: Σπύρος Σκούρας; March 28, 1893 – August 16, 1971) was a Greek-American motion picture pioneer and film executive who was the president of 20th Century-Fox from 1942 to 1962.
William Goetz (1903–1969), co-founder of Twentieth Century Pictures (later 20th Century Fox) [239] Leonard Goldenson (1905–1999), founder of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) [240] Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974), Polish-born founder of the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Samuel Goldwyn Productions; member of the Goldwyn family [239] [241]
This category includes actors who performed under contract to the 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox) film studio. Subcategories. This category has only ...
Barbara "Bobby" McLean [1] (November 16, 1903 – March 28, 1996) was an American film editor with 62 film credits.. In the period Darryl F. Zanuck was dominant at the 20th Century Fox Studio, from the 1930s through the 1960s, McLean was the studio's most prominent editor and ultimately the head of its editing department.
Bluth and Goldman were drawn away from the studio when they were approached in late 1993 to set up a new animation studio for 20th Century Fox. Sullivan Bluth Studio's films continued to suffer losses at the box office, and the studio was closed down on October 31, 1995, after the release of their final feature, The Pebble and the Penguin .
20th Century-Fox also had two big science-fiction hits in the decade: Fantastic Voyage (1966), and the original Planet of the Apes (1968), starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, and Roddy McDowall. Fantastic Voyage was the last film made in CinemaScope; the studio had held on to the format while Panavision lenses were being used elsewhere.
E. Maurice "Buddy" Adler (June 22, 1906 – July 12, 1960) was an American film producer and production head for 20th Century Fox studios.. In 1954, his production of From Here to Eternity won the Academy Award for Best Picture and in 1956, his Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing was nominated for best picture.
Most of Four Star Television's library of programs are controlled by 20th Century Fox Television today. [ 115 ] [ 116 ] [ 117 ] After Murdoch's numerous buyouts during the buyout era of the eighties, News Corporation had built up financial debts of $7 billion (much from Sky TV in the UK), despite the many assets that were held by NewsCorp. [ 5 ]