William Fox
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. Once audiences adequately understood what moving pictures were, live acts were dispensed with. More nickelodeons were opened and he became a successful film exhibitor. He then won a long legal battle against Thomas Edison's Motion Pictures Patent Company, ending the film trust and allowing him to start his own production company in 1913. Operations were consolidated into the Fox Film Corporation in 1915. Theda Bara and Tom Mix starred in successful pictures made at the Fox Hollywood studios and the profits from them, and from the 1000 house Fox theatre chain, paid for "artistic" projects like Sunrise (1926), for awards and critical acclaim. In 1927, Fox acquired the American patent rights to the sound-on-film process developed by a Swiss firm. Fox pioneered the widescreen film with The Big Trail (1930). Poised for the future of talkies, he attempted to buy MGM just in time for 1929s stock market crash. In 1930 Fox was forced out of his company after a federal anti-trust investigation. His version is told in 1933 Upton Sinclair's book, 'Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.' In 1936, a year after Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century Pictures merged with Fox Films, Fox bribed a judge during the liquidation of his holdings in bankruptcy proceedings. His sentence, a year in prison, began in 1941. Paroled in 1943, he was a pariah in Hollywood. Though secure from his many patent holdings, the industry for which he had been so visionary was closed to him. A virtual pariah at the time of his death, no industry representative came to eulogize at his funeral.
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Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
South of Tahiti
1941 · Sound Technical Supervisor
Silk Hat Kid
1935 · Producer
Caravane
1934 · Executive Producer
David Harum
1934 · Presenter
Hoopla
1933 · Presenter
It's Great to Be Alive
1933 · Presenter
El caballero de la noche
1932 · Producer
Wild Girl
1932 · Presenter
Rackety Rax
1932 · Presenter
The Painted Woman
1932 · Producer
Society Girl
1932 · Producer
Young America
1932 · Producer
Disorderly Conduct
1932 · Producer
She Wanted a Millionaire
1932 · Producer
There Were Thirteen
1931 · Producer
Law of the Harem
1931 · Producer
Do You Know Your Wife?
1931 · Producer
You Have to Marry the Prince
1931 · Producer
Slaves of Fashion
1931 · Producer
Annabelle's Affairs
1931 · Executive Producer
Six Cylinder Love
1931 · Producer
The Spy
1931 · Producer
Quick Millions
1931 · Producer
El impostor
1931 · Producer
The Big Trail
1931 · Producer
Oh, for a Man!
1930 · Executive Producer
Up the River
1930 · Producer
Common Clay
1930 · Executive Producer
Rough Romance
1930 · Presenter
High Society Blues
1930 · Producer
Such Men Are Dangerous
1930 · Presenter
The Big Party
1930 · Presenter
City Girl
1930 · Producer
Seven Faces
1929 · Producer
The River
1929 · Producer
They Had to See Paris
1929 · Executive Producer
Happy Days
1929 · Producer, Presenter
Salute
1929 · Presenter
Lucky Star
1929 · Producer
Not Quite Decent
1929 · Presenter
The Black Watch
1929 · Presenter
The Valiant
1929 · Presenter
The Far Call
1929 · Producer
Girls Gone Wild
1929 · Presenter
Strong Boy
1929 · Presenter
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1929 · Producer
Riley the Cop
1928 · Presenter
Romance of the Underworld
1928 · Presenter
Mother Knows Best
1928 · Producer
The Farmer's Daughter
1928 · Presenter
Latest Dance Creation is ‘Sugar Foot Strut’ (ca. 1928)
1928 · Producer
Fleetwing
1928 · Presenter
No Other Woman
1928 · Presenter
Fazil
1928 · Producer
The Play Girl
1928 · Presenter
Street Angel
1928 · Producer
A Girl in Every Port
1928 · Producer
The Wizard
1927 · Presenter
Ladies Must Dress
1927 · Presenter
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · Producer, Presenter
East Side, West Side
1927 · Producer
Publicity Madness
1927 · Producer
The Gay Retreat
1927 · Presenter
Two Girls Wanted
1927 · Presenter
7th Heaven
1927 · Producer
The Loves of Carmen
1927 · Presenter
Tumbling River
1927 · Presenter
The Secret Studio
1927 · Presenter
Cradle Snatchers
1927 · Writer
Is Zat So?
1927 · Producer
Outlaws of Red River
1927 · Presenter
The War Horse
1927 · Presenter
Upstream
1927 · Producer
The Music Master
1927 · Producer
What Price Glory
1926 · Producer
The City
1926 · Producer
The Midnight Kiss
1926 · Presenter
Fig Leaves
1926 · Presenter
More Pay - Less Work
1926 · Producer
Early to Wed
1926 · Presenter
The Fool
1925 · Producer
The Fighting Heart
1925 · Presenter
The Iron Horse
1925 · Presenter
Wings of Youth
1925 · Presenter
Gold Heels
1924 · Presenter
Flames of Desire
1924 · Presenter
Troubles of a Bride
1924 · Executive Producer
Daughters of the Night
1924 · Presenter
Hearts of Oak
1924 · Presenter
The Cyclone Rider
1924 · Presenter
A Man's Mate
1924 · Producer
The Vagabond Trail
1924 · Presenter
Love Letters
1924 · Presenter
The Shadow of the East
1924 · Presenter
Just Off Broadway
1924 · Presenter
Gentle Julia
1923 · Producer
Hoodman Blind
1923 · Presenter
Six Cylinder Love
1923 · Presenter
Cameo Kirby
1923 · Presenter
Does It Pay?
1923 · Presenter
Times Have Changed
1923 · Producer
Unreal News Reel
1923 · Executive Producer
The Gunfighter
1923 · Presenter
Jungle Pals
1923 · Executive Producer
Alias the Night Wind
1923 · Executive Producer
The Silent Command
1923 · Presenter
Snowdrift
1923 · Presenter
If Winter Comes
1923 · Producer
The Face on the Barroom Floor
1923 · Producer
A Friendly Husband
1923 · Presenter
Pawn Ticket 210
1922 · Presenter
A California Romance
1922 · Presenter
The Great Night
1922 · Presenter
Who Are My Parents?
1922 · Executive Producer
Shirley of the Circus
1922 · Presenter
Step Lively, Please
1922 · Executive Producer
Youth Must Have Love
1922 · Presenter
Monte Cristo
1922 · Producer
Honor First
1922 · Presenter, Producer
A Self-Made Man
1922 · Presenter, Producer
The Yellow Stain
1922 · Presenter
The Men of Zanzibar
1922 · Presenter
Without Fear
1922 · Presenter
A Stage Romance
1922 · Presenter
Little Miss Smiles
1922 · Presenter
Sky High
1922 · Producer
Jackie
1921 · Producer, Presenter
The Last Trail
1921 · Presenter
Queenie
1921 · Presenter
The Primal Law
1921 · Presenter
Ever Since Eve
1921 · Presenter
Perjury
1921 · Presenter
A Ridin' Romeo
1921 · Presenter
Big Town Ideas
1921 · Producer
His Greatest Sacrifice
1921 · Presenter
Skirts
1921 · Executive Producer
The Lamplighter
1921 · Producer
Know Your Men
1921 · Presenter
Oliver Twist, Jr.
1921 · Presenter
Singing River
1920 · Presenter
The Face at Your Window
1920 · Presenter
His Noisy Still
1920 · Executive Producer
Just Pals
1920 · Producer
A Sister to Salome
1920 · Producer
The Joyous Trouble-Makers
1920 · Presenter
Twins of Suffering Creek
1920 · Presenter
The Orphan
1920 · Presenter
Her Elephant Man
1920 · Presenter
The Strongest
1920 · Presenter
The Shark
1920 · Presenter
The Husband Hunter
1920 · Producer
Flames of the Flesh
1920 · Executive Producer
A Schoolhouse Scandal
1919 · Executive Producer
Wings of the Morning
1919 · Presenter
Love Is Love
1919 · Presenter
Cowardice Court
1919 · Producer
Words and Music by -
1919 · Producer
The Love That Dares
1919 · Presenter
The Forbidden Room
1919 · Presenter
The Man Hunter
1919 · Producer, Presenter
Why I Would Not Marry
1918 · Presenter
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
1918 · Presenter
The Queen of Hearts
1918 · Presenter
The Woman Who Gave
1918 · Producer
The Bird of Prey
1918 · Presenter
Salome
1918 · Producer
A Neighbor's Keyhole
1918 · Executive Producer
True Blue
1918 · Presenter
The Blindness of Divorce
1918 · Executive Producer
The Woman and the Law
1918 · Producer, Presenter
Her Husband's Wife
1918 · Executive Producer
The Girl with the Champagne Eyes
1918 · Presenter
Are Married Policemen Safe?
1918 · Executive Producer
Son of a Gun
1918 · Executive Producer
Madame du Barry
1917 · Presenter
The Babes in the Woods
1917 · Presenter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1917 · Presenter
Cleopatra
1917 · Producer
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
1917 · Presenter
Jack and the Beanstalk
1917 · Presenter
Some Boy
1917 · Presenter
The Silent Lie
1917 · Presenter
The House of Terrible Scandals
1917 · Executive Producer
The Honor System
1917 · Producer
The Darling of Paris
1917 · Producer
The Price of Silence
1917 · Presenter
A Daughter of the Gods
1916 · Producer
East Lynne
1916 · Producer
The Eternal Sapho
1916 · Producer
The Serpent
1916 · Producer
The Galley Slave
1915 · Producer, Presenter
The Wonderful Adventure
1915 · Presenter
The Song of Hate
1915 · Presenter
Should a Mother Tell
1915 · Presenter
A Woman's Resurrection
1915 · Presenter
Anna Karenina
1915 · Producer
From the Valley of the Missing
1915 · Presenter
Kreutzer Sonata
1915 · Presenter
A Fool There Was
1915 · Producer
Life's Shop Window
1914 · Presenter
Regeneration
1914 · Presenter
The Tiger's Cub
· Producer, Presenter
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