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Solomon Max Wurtzel (September 12, 1890 – April 9, 1958) was an American film producer. Life and career. Tom Mix, actor; Sol Wurtzel, West Coast manager for Fox Film Corporation; and Winfield R. Sheehan, Fox Film general manager (1919) William Farnum, Helen and Babe Ruth and Wurtzel on the Fox Studios lot in Hollywood (1920)
Sol M. Wurtzel. Producer: Battle of Broadway. American production executive, with Fox from 1914 as private secretary to William Fox. From the mid-1930s until 1949, he served as head producer for the 20th Century Fox B-unit.
- Producer, Additional Crew
- September 12, 1890
- Sol M. Wurtzel
- April 9, 1958
Oct 5, 2019 · When author, producer, director Rocky Lang emailed me out of the blue asking for permission to publish one of my great-grandfather Sol M. Wurtzel’s letters in a book, I cringed.
- Sharon Rosen Leib
One year before the outbreak, my great-grandfather, pioneer producer Sol M. Wurtzel, arrived to run the original Fox Studio at Sunset Blvd. and Western Ave.
Sol M. Wurtzel. Producer: Battle of Broadway. American production executive, with Fox from 1914 as private secretary to William Fox. From the mid-1930s until 1949, he served as head producer for the 20th Century Fox B-unit. His modestly budgeted films invariably showed a profit.
- September 12, 1890
- April 9, 1958
• You will get these and four more from M.r. Lasky's unit. He is first, last and always a showman, knows what the public wants and knows how to put tha t quality on the screen. SOL M. WURTZEL Prodncer- in Charge t~f IV estern Avenue S tnclios • For sixteen years Sol Wurtzel has l1 een a major production execu
Solomon Max "Sol" Wurtzel was an American film producer. He started out as an assistant to William Fox at the Fox Film Corporation. Fox sent Wurtzel to Hollywood from New York in 1917 to serve as general superintendent of Fox's Hollywood studio.
