Samuel u.s. film producer born 1879

Hungarian-American film producer (1873–1976)

The native form of this personal name is Czukor Adolf. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Adolph Zukor (; Hungarian: Czukor Adolf; January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976)^[1] was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures.^[2] He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.^[3][4]

Early life

Zukor was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Ricse, in the Kingdom of Hungary in January 1873,^[5] which was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

His father, Jacob, who operated a general store, died when he was a toddler, while his mother, Hannah Liebermann, died when he was 7 years old. Adolph and his brother Arthur moved in with Kalman Liebermann, their uncle.

Liebermann, a rabbi, expected his nephews to become rabbis, but instead Adolph serve