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Charles G. Bluhdorn, born Karl Blühdorn (September 20, 1926 – February 20, 1983) was an Austrian-born American industrialist. ==Biography== Bluhdorn was born to a Jewish family〔Erens, Patricia (The Jew in American Cinema ) ISBN 9780253204936 | ISBN 0253204933 | Publisher: Indiana University Press | Publish Date: August 1988〕 in Vienna, Austria. Per ''Who's Who in Ridgefield (CT)'', he was considered such a "hellion" that his father sent the 11-year-old to an English boarding school for disciplining. At 16, he came to New York, studying at City College and Columbia and, in 1946, went to work at the Cotton Exchange, earning $15 a week.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://jackfsanders.tripod.com/A-F.htm )〕 Other accounts say that he emigrated to the United States in 1942 and served in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Three years later, he formed a company that would make him a millionaire at 30; in 1956, he acquired Michigan Bumper, a small auto parts company that eventually grew into Gulf+Western Industries, a conglomerate that ranked 61st in the Fortune 500 by 1981.〔 Charles married Yvette M. LeMarrec, formerly of Paris, about 1950. Subholdings of Gulf+Western were blue chip names such as Paramount Pictures (acquired in 1966), Madison Square Garden, and Simon & Schuster publishing as well as less glamorous holdings such as mining, New Jersey Zinc Company. Paramount was suggested to Bluhdorn by Sumner Redstone and the acquisition was encouraged by Paramount's head of publicity, Martin Davis.〔Bart, Peter. "Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob (and Sex)" NY: Weinstein Books, 2011〕 It was during Gulf and Western's ownership of Paramount that it went from being Number 9 at the boxoffice, based upon total receipt sales, to number 1 with such hits as ''The Godfather'' and ''Chinatown''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cinema.com/articles/988/kid-stays-in-the-picture-the-who-is-robert-evans.phtml )〕 In 1974 he hired Barry Diller as Paramount's chairman and chief executive, making Diller, at age 32, the youngest studio chief ever and the first to come from the TV business. Bluhdorn was known to be an incredibly energetic workaholic once dubbed "The Mad Austrian of Wall Street." He maintained his position as chairman of Gulf+Western Industries until his death.〔 He was also infamous (and widely imitated) for his cement-thick Austro-German accent, which has been lampooned in interviews by former collaborators such as Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Evans. He died of a heart attack on his private jet while returning to the United States from his Casa de Campo resort in the Dominican Republic.〔 While Jewish by birth, his private funeral services were held at St. Mary's Church in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Among those who attended was friend and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.〔 At Tufts University in Boston, there is the Charles G. Bluhdorn Prize in Economics, awarded annually to an undergraduate majoring in economics who has demonstrated outstanding scholastic ability. This prize was founded in 1983 by Donald Gaston in memory of Charles G. Bluhdorn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://dl.tufts.edu/view_text.jsp?urn=tufts:central:dca:UA069:UA069.005.DO.00001&chapter=C00017 )〕 Bluhdorn's rocky relationship with appointed Paramount executive Robert Evans was documented in Evans' 1994 biographical book ''The Kid Stays in the Picture'' and in the 2002 film of the same title. Bluhdorn initially hired Evans in 1966 to head European production for Paramount Pictures. He would promote Evans almost immediately to head of production at Paramount Pictures.〔 The 1990 film ''The Godfather Part III'' was dedicated to Bluhdorn, "who inspired it." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Bluhdorn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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