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Samuel Goldwyn

1879 - 1974

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Samuel Goldwyn (; born Szmuel Gelbfisz; Yiddish: שמואל געלבפֿיש; July 1879 (most likely; claimed to be August 27, 1882) – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish-born American film producer and pioneer in the American film industry, who produced Hollywood's first major motion picture. He was best known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood. He was awarded the 1973 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1947) and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1958). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Samuel Goldwyn is the 18th most popular producer (up from 25th in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from Poland (up from 459th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Producer.

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Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 18 out of 140Before him are David O. Selznick, Louis B. Mayer, Toshio Suzuki, Joseph M. Schenck, Joel Silver, and Gene Roddenberry. After him are Aaron Spelling, Raymond Chow, Branko Lustig, Darryl F. Zanuck, Albert R. Broccoli, and William Fox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 67Before him are Billy Mitchell, Jane Darwell, Huda Sha'arawi, William Beveridge, Paul Poiret, and Agrippina Vaganova. After him are Ethel Barrymore, Frederick Schule, Alfred Korzybski, Dwight F. Davis, William Fox, and René Pottier. Among people deceased in 1974, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 62Before him are Junio Valerio Borghese, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Sexton, Pietro Germi, Vladimir Fock, and Candy Darling. After him are James J. Braddock, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Josef Krips, Lajos Zilahy, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, and Jean Absil.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 384 out of 1,694Before him are Tadeusz Kantor (1915), Emin Pasha (1840), Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869), Joachim Kroll (1933), Stanisław Wyspiański (1869), and Peter I, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1755). After him are Czesława Kwoka (1943), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Karol Świerczewski (1897), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Casimir Pulaski (1745), and Joachim Meisner (1933).

Among PRODUCERS In Poland

Among producers born in Poland, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 1After him are Sam Warner (1887), Sam Spiegel (1901), and Artur Brauner (1918).