List of Jewish American film studio executives

This is a list of notable Jewish American film studio executives. For other notable Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews.

Jewish American film studio executives

Leading Hollywood movie moguls and pioneers of the studio system era where jewish: Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer MGM) William Fox (Twentieth Century Fox), Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor (Paramount Pictures), Harry Cohn (Columbia Pictures) and Marcus Loew (Loews Pictures), Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner (Warner Brothers) and Carl Laemmle the founder of Universal Studios.

• Barney Balaban was president of Paramount Pictures from 1936 to 1964, and innovator in the cinema industry.
• Charles O. Baumann was an American film producer, film studio executive, and a pioneer in the motion picture industry.
• Michael Dammann Eisner is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.
• William Fox was a pioneering American motion picture executive, who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.
• David Geffen is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive and philanthropist. Geffen was also one of the three founders of DreamWorks SKG in 1994.
• William Goetz was an American Hollywood film producer and studio executive.
• Gary Goetzman is an American film studio executive, film and television producer.
• Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.
• Brad Grey is the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, a position he has held since 2005.
• Peter Guber is an American film producer and executive and chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment. Films he personally produced or executive produced include Rain Man, Batman.
• Nina Jacobson is an American film executive who, until July 2006, was president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
• Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American businessman, film studio executive and film producer. As a businessman, he is the CEO of DreamWorks Animation and is also known for his tenure as chairman of The Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994
• Carl Laemmle in Los Angeles, California) was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios – Universal.
• Sherry Lansing is an American former actress and film studio executive. She is a former CEO of Paramount Pictures, and when she was the president of production at 20th Century Fox, she was the first woman to head a Hollywood studio
• Jesse L. Lasky was an American pioneer motion picture producer.
• Al Lichtman was a businessman working in the motion picture industry. He also occasionally worked as a film producer. Lichtman has a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Marcus Loew was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
• Siegmund Lubin was a German-American motion picture pioneer.
• Louis Burt Mayer was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years. He was one of the founders of AMPAS famous for its "Oscars" Academy Award.
• Larry Meistrich is an award-winning film producer. He was a founding member of the now defunct film production company The Shooting Gallery.
• Ron Meyer is an American entertainment executive and former talent agent.
• David V. Picker is a motion picture executive and producer, working in the film industry for more than forty years. He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer for United Artists, Paramount, Lorimar and Columbia Pictures.
• Rich Ross is Chief Executive Officer for Shine America, responsible for commercial strategy of the Shine Group in the United States. He had previously been the president of entertainment at Disney Channel, and chairman of Walt Disney Studios.
• Mo Rothman was a Canadian-born, American studio executive who persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States in 1972, ending Chaplin's twenty year, self-imposed exile.
• Dore Schary was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright who became head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and eventually president of the studio.
• Joseph M. Schenck was an American film executive. He played a key role in the development of the American film industry.
• Nicholas Schenck was an American film studio executive and businessman.
• David O. Selznick was an American film producer and film studio executive. He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both earning him an Academy Award for Best Picture, and The Third Man (1949).

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