Robert Naify, son of a Lebanese immigrant who built movie theater empire beginning in 1912, has worked in the theater business nearly all his life. Along with his brother Marshall Naify

Marshall Naify

Marshall Naify was a motion picture and media tycoon who was a long-term chairman of the board of United Artists and later became founder and co-chairman of the board of Todd-AO, the largest independent post-production sound studio in the country which worked on Apollo 13 and other major films.Son...

, members of The Forbes Four Hundred since 1987, with an estimated worth of $ 4.3 billion, they merged the family's theater chain with United Artists Theater Circuit, early pioneer cable television 1950s, eventually inheriting entire movie theater empire. They sold that company in 1986 to John Malone's Telecommunications Inc. for cash, TCI stock. Robert always kept a low profile, when compared to his brother Marshall Naify

Marshall Naify

Marshall Naify was a motion picture and media tycoon who was a long-term chairman of the board of United Artists and later became founder and co-chairman of the board of Todd-AO, the largest independent post-production sound studio in the country which worked on Apollo 13 and other major films.Son...

, living in his stunning mansion in San Francisco.

See also

• List of billionaires
• List of billionaires (2007) - Worldwide in U.S. dollars
• List of billionaires (2006) - Worldwide in U.S. dollars
• List of billionaires (2005) - Worldwide in U.S. dollars
• List of billionaires (2004) - Worldwide in U.S. dollars