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Persoonlijke gegevens Sol Leondard Lesser 

• Hij is geboren op 17 februari 1890 in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA.
• Beroepen:
• in het jaar 1905 in Plumbers assistant, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1906 in usher and Ice cream vendor, Nikelodeon, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1907 in owner All Star Features Exchange, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1910 in film producer, "Last Night of the Barbary Coast", California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1917 in moving picture films merchant, 191 Golden Gate Ave. San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1922 in Western Pictures Exploitation Co, 635 H. W. Hellman Bldgs, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten.
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1916: 324 Eddy, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.Bron 2
• in het jaar 1917: film company manager, 117 Palm Ave, San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1919: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• in het jaar 1923: 3558 Wilshire Blve, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten.
• Hij is overleden op 19 september 1980 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA, hij was toen 90 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Lesser Lesser en Julia LevY

Gezin van Sol Leondard Lesser

Hij is getrouwd met Fay Grunauer.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 26 maart 1913 te San Francisco, California, USA, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Julian Bud Lesser  1915-2005 
2. (Niet openbaar)

Notities over Sol Leondard Lesser

From Alex Asher Sears.
Born in a tent in Spokane, Washington, producer Sol Lesser was six weeks old when his family moved to San Francisco, California, USA Not long after the 1906 earthquake, Lesser's father got out of the candy-store business in favor of the burgeoning nickelodeon industry. Lesser followed his father's footsteps, eventually running his own theatre chain and distribution center. With the 1919 Mack Sennett feature Yankee Doodle in Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany, Lesser went into the production end of the business; his biggest silent-era success was the Lon Chaney Sr. version of Oliver Twist (1922). In the mid '20s, Lesser forsook production for distribution again, returning to the creative end of movie making in 1931 when, through his friendship with writer Upton Sinclair, he became involved with the Sergei Eisenstein project Thunder over Mexico. While this film fomented a great deal of anti-Russian hostility, Lesser was able to parlay the publicity into establishing his own production company, distributing his product first through 20th Century-Fox, then United Artists. His most successful ventures of the '30s included several western series with stars like George O'Brien and Smith Ballew, as well as a group of musicals featuring boy soprano Bobby Breen. These moneymakers enabled Lesser to tackle more ambitious and less surefire movie properties like 1940's Our Town. In 1943, Lesser secured the film rights for Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan; he continued making Tarzan programmers to excellent financial returns until 1958. Sol Lesser Retired that year, explaining "I had reached the age that one either finishes on top or far below. I decided I would end on top, and I was satisfied."

By 1910, he opened his own film exchange in San Francisco, California, USA with a branch in Los Angeles. In 1913, he started the Golden State Film Exchange, and in 1915, the All Star Feature Distributors. In 1917, Lewis Selznick founded the State Rights exchanges and Lesser acquired several of the franchises. With these franchises, in 1918, he made a deal for the rights to a D. W. Griffith picture that would be shown in 22 western states. In 1920, he formed the West Coast Theatres, Inc. in partnership with the Gore Brothers. Over time, they absorbed others until the chain reached a total of 175. This chain was sold in 1962 and it eventually became the Mann Theatres. The Crazy Horse Gentlemans Club, 980 Market St. Opened 1909 as the Lesser Nickelodeon. Today, it features live lap dancers. Lesser's father who was in the nickelodeon business died in 1907 in San Francisco, California, USA leaving the business to Sol and Irving. Sol got involved in distribution in 1910 eventually forming the Golden Gate Film Exchange in 1915. In that year San Francisco, California, USA's infamous Barbary Coast was shuttered. Before the closure Lesser filmed the area, selling the movie. He received the first bank loan in the USA for his film business from the Bank of Italy (Bank of America).
Films produced" Last Night of Barbary Coast; What Women Love, Oliver Twist, Peck's Bad Boy, Circus Days.
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1900 Lassen, California, USA census
Lesser, Hauchen b. Oct 1890 WA, Neice (f.pru m.California, USA )
Cohn, Jacob b. Nov 1852 Ger merchant imm 1866.
Cohn, Ester mar 1864 California, USA wife married 16 years.

S.Lesser of San Francisco visiting the family of J.Cohn of Susanville jan 1897

Florence Levy at opera in San Francisco, California, USA with Nathan Goldstein, Sol Lesser, Theo Friedlaender 11 nov 1900, SF Chronicle
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Produced films Oliver Twist with Jackie Coogan, Campain January with Baby Peggy Montgomery.

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