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1879 - 1952

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Wilhelm Fried Fuchs (Hungarian: Fried Vilmos; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), commonly and better known as William Fox, was an American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Fox has received more than 22,067 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). William Fox is the 16th most popular producer (up from 21st in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 209th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Producer.

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  • 32

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  • 3.34

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Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, William Fox ranks 16 out of 89Before him are Simon Cowell, Louis B. Mayer, Albert R. Broccoli, Joel Silver, Gene Roddenberry, and Aaron Spelling. After him are Samuel Goldwyn, Irving Thalberg, Toshio Suzuki, Branko Lustig, Claude Berri, and Darryl F. Zanuck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, William Fox ranks 57Before him are Bedřich Hrozný, Hisaichi Terauchi, Adolf Strauss, Alfred Korzybski, Nikolai Medtner, and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. After him are Ethel Barrymore, Agrippina Vaganova, Marius Jacob, Henri Wallon, Samuel Goldwyn, and Vladko Maček. Among people deceased in 1952, William Fox ranks 44Before him are John Langenus, Albert, 8th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Otto Dietrich, Pedro Lascuráin, Jigme Wangchuck, and Kurt Schumacher. After him are Michael Rostovtzeff, Efim Bogoljubov, Luigi Fagioli, Hans Kramers, Princess Hilda of Nassau, and Viktor Chernov.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, William Fox ranks 173 out of 866Before him are Constance of Hungary (1180), Ingenuus (200), Amrita Sher-Gil (1913), Tivadar Soros (1894), Béla Miklós (1890), and Geraldine of Albania (1915). After him are Gyula Lóránt (1923), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), György Sárosi (1912), Ferenc Deák (1922), Karl Goldmark (1830), and Géza Anda (1921).

Among PRODUCERS In Hungary

Among producers born in Hungary, William Fox ranks 1After him are Andrew G. Vajna (1944).