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William Wadsworth Hodkinson

film producer

William Wadsworth Hodkinson

American businessman (1881–1971)

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About William Wadsworth Hodkinson

William Wadsworth Hodkinson, known more commonly as W. W. Hodkinson, was an American businessman best known for founding Paramount Pictures. Known as The Man Who Invented Hollywood, he opened one of the first movie theaters in Ogden, Utah in 1907 and within just a few years changed the way movies were produced, distributed, and exhibited. He became a leading West Coast film distributor in the early days of motion pictures and in 1914 he founded and became president of the first nationwide film distributor, Paramount Pictures Corporation. Hodkinson was also responsible for doodling the mountain that became the Paramount logo also in 1914. After being driven out of Paramount, he established his own independent distribution company, the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation, in 1917, before selling it off in 1924. He left the motion picture business in 1929 to form Hodkinson Aviation Corporation, and later formed the Central American Aviation Corporation and Companía Nacional de Aviación in Guatemala.

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Occupation: film producer
Citizenship: United States
Born: August 16, 1881
Died: June 2, 1971

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