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Stoll, Oswald
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- Gray, Oswald
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1866-1942
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Born on January 20, 1866 in Melbourne, Australia, Oswald Stoll was a theatre entrepreneur. Stoll was known for promoting a new direction of leisure entrepreneurship. Along with theatre, Stoll dabbled in establishing distribution companies for cinema such as renovating the London Opera House into a cinema in 1919. As well, Stoll founded Stoll Picture Productions in 1920 and became one of the prominent makers and distributors in the British film industry. He died in Putney, London on January 9, 1942.
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Created by PH in September 2018.
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- English
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Sources
Russell, Dave. "Stoll, Sir Oswald [formerly Oswald Gray] (1866–1942), Theatre Entrepreneur | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography." (1892–1973), Writer and Philologist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. September 23, 2004. Accessed September 25, 2018. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-36316.