Paramount Executives

• W.W. Hodkinson
• Hiram Abrams
  Hiram Abrams
  Hiram Abrams was an early American movie mogul and one of the first presidents of Paramount Pictures and the first managing director of United Artists.- Biography :...
  
  
• Adolph Zukor
  Adolph Zukor
  Adolph Zukor , born Adolph Cukor, was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jesse L. Lasky
  Jesse L. Lasky
  Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr. was a pioneer Hollywood film producer. He was a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse L...
  
  
• Samuel Goldwyn
  Samuel Goldwyn
  Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...
  
  
• Emanuel Cohen
• Ernst Lubitsch
  Ernst Lubitsch
  Ernst Lubitsch was a German-born film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch."In 1947 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his...
  
  
• B.P. Schulberg
• Barney Balaban
  Barney Balaban
  Barney Balaban was president of Paramount Pictures from 1936 to 1964, and innovator in the cinema industry. The eldest of the seven sons of grocery store owner Israel Balaban, Barney worked as a messenger boy and a cold storage company employee until 1908, when he was persuaded, at age 21, to go...
  
  
• George Weltner
• William LeBaron
  William LeBaron
  William LeBaron was an American film producer. His credits included Cimarron, the film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 4th Academy Awards ceremony for 1930/1931....
  
  
• Walter Wanger
  Walter Wanger
  Walter Wanger was an American film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career began at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a...
  
  
• Y. Frank Freeman
  Y. Frank Freeman
  Young Frank Freeman was an American film company executive for Paramount Pictures. Freeman graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1910. In addition to his work with Paramount, he also worked with banking, higher education, and athletics.He was the first winner of the Jean Hersholt...
  
  
• Jacob Karp
• Martin Rackin
• Howard W. Koch
  Howard W. Koch
  Howard Winchel Koch was an American director and producer of motion pictures and television.Born in New York City, he attended DeWitt Clinton High School and the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey...
  
  
• Charles Bluhdorn
  Charles Bluhdorn
  Charles Blühdorn was a Vienna, Austria-born American industrialist.-Biography:Per a Who's Who in Ridgefield he was considered such a "hellion" that his father sent the 11-year-old to an English boarding school for disciplining...
  
  
• Robert Evans
• Stanley R. Jaffe
  Stanley R. Jaffe
  Stanley Richard Jaffe is an American film producer, responsible for blockbusters such as Fatal Attraction, The Accused, and Kramer vs. Kramer.-Background:...
  
  
• David Picker
• Frank Yablans
  Frank Yablans
  Frank Yablans is an American film producer and screenwriter The son of a Brooklyn cab driver and brother to fellow film producer Irwin Yablans, Yablans' first employers in the film business included Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company and Filmways...
  
  
• Donald C. Simpson
• Barry Diller
  Barry Diller
  Barry Charles Diller is the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp and the media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting.-Early life:...
  
  
• Michael D. Eisner
• Jeffrey Katzenberg
  Jeffrey Katzenberg
  Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation. He is perhaps most famous for his period as chairman of The Walt Disney Company's film division, and for producing DreamWorks animated films such as Shrek, Antz, The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Chicken...
  
  
• Martin S. Davis
• Frank Mancuso, Sr.
• Ned Tanen
  Ned Tanen
  Ned Stone Tanen was an American movie studio executive behind films that included American Graffiti and Animal House....
  
  
• Dawn Steel
  Dawn Steel
  Dawn Steel was one of the first women to run a major Hollywood film studio. She was born as Dawn Spielberg in New York City and raised in the suburb Great Neck, Long Island. Her father changed the family name.- Career :Dawn Steel attended New York University but did not graduate...
  
  
• Brandon Tartikoff
  Brandon Tartikoff
  Brandon Tartikoff was a television executive who was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with such hit series as Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, ALF, Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, Miami Vice, The Golden Girls, Knight Rider, The A-Team, St...
  
  
• Gary Lucchesi
  Gary Lucchesi
  Gary Lucchesi is an American film producer who is president of Lakeshore Entertainment. Lucchesi began his career at The William Morris Agency as an agent, representing such artists as Susan Sarandon, Kevin Costner, Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malkovich...
  
  
• Sherry Lansing
  Sherry Lansing
  Sherry Lansing is a former actress and American film studio executive. She is former CEO of Paramount Pictures, and when president of production at 20th Century Fox was the first woman to head a Hollywood studio In 1996, she became the first woman named Pioneer of the Year by the Foundation of...
  
  
• David Kirkpatrick
  David Kirkpatrick (producer)
  David Kirkpatrick a Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award winning American film producer, studio executive and screenwriter. He is currently Managing Director of Rock Entertainment and founder of Plymouth Rock Studios...
  
  
• Sid Ganis
  Sid Ganis
  Sidney Ganis is a Greek-American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and Akeelah and the Bee. On August 23, 2005 he was elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
  
  
• Barry London
• John Goldwyn
  John Goldwyn
  John Howard Goldwyn is an American film producer.John Goldwyn was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. and his wife Jennifer Howard. He has two brothers: film director and actor Tony Goldwyn and Francis Goldwyn. John has produced a total of eight films, according to the...
  
  
• Sumner Redstone
  Sumner Redstone
  Sumner Murray Redstone is an American media magnate. He is the majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain...