death_date death_place years_active birth_place name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name
24 september 1939 los angeles , california 1909 -- 1936 laupheim , württemberg , germany carl laemmle 17 january 1867 recha stern carllaemmle.jpg carl laemmle
 karl lämmle
carl laemmle

carl laemmle -lrb- ; born karl lämmle ; january 17 , 1867 -- september 24 , 1939 -rrb- was a german pioneer in american film making and a founder of one of the original major hollywood movie studios -- universal .
laemmle produced or was otherwise involved in over four hundred films .
regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers , laemmle was born in laupheim in the kingdom of württemberg .
he emigrated to the united states in 1884 , working in chicago as a bookkeeper or office manager for 20 years .
he began buying nickelodeons , eventually expanding into a film distribution service , the laemmle film service .
