William Wallace Hodkinson Net Worth
William Wallace Hodkinson Net Worth is
$100,000
William Wallace Hodkinson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Pioneering film producer/distributor W.W. Hodkinson was born in Pueblo, CO, in 1881. He got into the motion picture business early, opening a theater in Ogden, UT, in 1907. He was successful enough to buy out the only two other theaters in Ogden, then headed for the "big time" in Salt Lake City. He moved up from exhibiting films to distributing ... | Date Of Birth | August 16, 1881 |
| Place Of Birth | Pueblo, Colorado, USA |
| Weight | about 155 pounds |
| Profession | Producer |
| Star Sign | Leo |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Co-founded W.W. Hodkinson Corp., a production/distribution company, in New York City in 1916. |
| 2 | He is credited for naming Paramount Pictures after passing an apartment building called "Paramount". Another story is that future studio head Adolph Zukor was stopped at a red light one day and noticed a truck in the next lane with the logo "Paramount Plumbing" on the door. He liked the name and decided to use it for his company. |
| 3 | Business partner of Hiram Abrams, who was manipulated by Adolph Zukor to oust Hodkinson from his chairmanship of W.W. Hodkinson Corp. |
| 4 | One of the first masterminds of film distribution in the early 1910s. He banded loosely organized distribution territories into statewide systems that remained in effect for four decades. Unfortunately, one of the producers he signed to supply his need for product was the hard-driving Adolph Zukor, who wanted to control distribution himself. He eventually maneuvered Hodkinson out of the chairmanship of his company, W.W. Hodkinson Corp., which eventually became Producers Distributing Corp., which in turn eventually became Paramount Pictures. Hodkinson later became an aircraft manufacturer. |
Known for movies
Cupid Angling 1918
as Producer
Sahara 1919
as Producer