Personal Info
Known For
Production
Birthday
1884-07-12
Deathday
1957-10-29
Place of Birth
Dymer, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyshhorod Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine]
Louis B. Mayer
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir in the Russian Empire; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM). Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors and stars in Hollywood. Mayer was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Known For
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
Seeing Stars
as Self
1925 Studio Tour
as Self
Sid & Judy
as Self (archive photos)
Girl 27
as Self (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
as Self (archive footage)
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
as Self (archive footage)
Actors and Sin
as Louis B. Mayer (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)