Biography:

Pioneering American motion picture executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theaters chain in the 1920s. Although Fox sold his interest in these companies in a 1936 bankruptcy settlement, his name lives on as the namesake of the Fox Television Network and the 20th Century Fox film studio. He was among the first pioneers of the motion-picture and entertainment industries. Fox was one of the main contributors of Bankers Securities Corporation, an investment firm established by Albert M. Greenfield in 1928.