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Samuel Goldwyn

1879 - 1974

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Samuel Goldwyn (; born Szmuel Gelbfisz; Yiddish: שמואל געלבפֿיש; August 27, 1882 (claimed but most likely July 1879) – 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Goldwyn has received more than 1,818,519 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Samuel Goldwyn is the 25th most popular producer (down from 17th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Poland (down from 361st in 2019) and the most popular Polish Producer.

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  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

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  • 4.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 25 out of 140. Before him are William Fox, Claude Berri, Alberto Grimaldi, Darryl F. Zanuck, Aurelio De Laurentiis, and Raymond Chow. After him are Don Simpson, John de Mol Jr., Kathleen Kennedy, Franco Cristaldi, Fred Quimby, and Andrew G. Vajna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 72. Before him are Hovannes Adamian, Bernhard Schmidt, Dwight F. Davis, Agrippina Vaganova, Jacques Copeau, and Jane Darwell. After him are Jacob Gade, Alla Nazimova, Aimo Cajander, Sándor Garbai, Hu Hanmin, and Henri Wallon. Among people deceased in 1974, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 71. Before him are Anne Sexton, Christine Chubbuck, Ed Sullivan, Jan Tschichold, Bill Finger, and Werner Lorenz. After him are Wolf Messing, Ayub Khan, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Wang Ming, Princess Patricia of Connaught, and Yevgeny Vuchetich.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Samuel Goldwyn ranks 459 out of 1,694. Before him are Werner Lorenz (1891), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Zygmunt Berling (1896), Hans Jeschonnek (1899), and Julian Tuwim (1894). After him are Max Factor (1877), Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920), Wolf Messing (1899), Gottfried Achenwall (1719), Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784), and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734).

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Among PRODUCERS In Poland

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

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