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Co-founded Universal Pictures after immigrating from Germany and working two decades in Chicago, building it from a single nickelodeon into a studio that produced more than 400 films under his ownership. He was part of the group of Eastern European Jewish immigrants — alongside Zukor, Goldwyn, Mayer, Fox, and the Warner brothers — who built the Hollywood studio system essentially from nothing. His studio won the Best Picture Oscar for All Quiet on the Western Front in 1930.