Doc Salomon

Ananda Max Salomon (January 15, 1891[1] – 5 July 1944)[2] was an American film director and studio manager at Teddington Studios.[3]

Doc Salomon
Born
Ananda Max Salomon

(1891-01-15)January 15, 1891
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
DiedJuly 5, 1944(1944-07-05) (aged 53)
Teddington, Staines, England
Occupations

Salomon was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and moved to San Francisco when he was one year old.[4] His father, Max Salomon, was born in Illinois and his mother, Wilhelmina "Minna" Welte Salomon, was German.[5][1] He was a cousin of Jack L. Warner's first wife Irma Solomons (1916–1935), and became Warner's first employee,[6] and eventually head of Warner's British operation.

He was killed in a V-1 flying bomb[7] attack at Warner Bros. Studios in Teddington, Staines,[2] while recording the sound of the V-1s.[8][9][10][11]

Salomon was cremated and his ashes returned to San Francisco. He was survived by his wife, Joan Denise Salomon.[2]

Films
  • The Side Show Jack Born and Elmer Lawrence sound short Vitaphone 1928[12]

References
  1. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
  2. Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974
  3. John Huntley British film music 194, Page 220
  4. 1910 United States Federal Census
  5. 1900 United States Federal Census
  6. Cass Warner Sperling, Cork Millner, Jack Warner (1998). Hollywood be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers Story 0813109582, p. 68. "Irma's cousin Doc Salomon, who had been a salesman for the Warner exchange in San Francisco, left the city by the bay and became the fledgling studio's first employee, serving as janitor, office boy, night watchman, and eventually the prop man."
  7. "Wartime Reminiscences on 75th Anniversary of VE Day". May 2020.
  8. American Aeronaut (1944). Volume 5, Page 3
  9. Michael E. Birdwell (1999). Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism 0814713386
  10. Steven Bingen (2014). Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot Page 26. 1589799623
  11. Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Civilian War Deaths casualty record, accessed 12 January 2022.
  12. Edwin M. Bradley The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 2005 - Page 363 1476606846 "Born and Lawrence in “The Side Show,” with Walter Rodgers, Vitaphone"
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