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Charles George Bluhdorn (born Karl Georg Blühdorn; September 20, 1926 – February 19, 1983) was an Austrian-born American industrialist. He built his fortune in auto parts and commodities such as zinc , and following a 1966 acquisition became CEO, chairman and president of the Hollywood movie studio Paramount Pictures .
May 7, 2015 · Charles Bluhdorn had purchased a nearly defunct auto parts manufacturing company, Michigan Plating & Stamping, in 1956, renamed it Gulf+Western, and used it to acquire a diversified portfolio...
Charles George Bluhdorn (born Karl Georg Blühdorn; September 20, 1926 – February 19, 1983) was an Austrian-born American industrialist. He built his fortune in auto parts and commodities such as zinc , and following a 1966 acquisition became CEO, chairman and president of the Hollywood movie studio Paramount Pictures .
Feb 4, 2009 · In many ways, the men who made The Godfather —director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, Paramount executives Robert Evans and Peter Bart, and Gulf & Western boss Charles Bluhdorn—were...
Feb 21, 1983 · After the end of World War II, Bluhdorn entered the export-import business and in 1949 formed his own company which he operated until he purchased an interest in Michigan Plating and Stamping.
Jul 18, 1977 · At the peak of his rambunctious form, Chairman Charles Bluhdorn of Gulf & Western Industries, one of the world's biggest conglomerates (1976 sales: $3.4 billion), is a curiously compulsive...
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Feb 20, 1983 · Charles G. Bluhdorn, who built a small Michigan auto-parts company into Gulf and Western Industries, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate, died yesterday while flying home to New York from a...
