Louis B. Mayer
Miscellaneous Crew Producer Production Manager
- Gender: Male
- Birthday: 1884-07-12
- Day of Death: 1957-10-29 ( 73 years old )
- Place of Birth: Dymer, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyshhorod Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine]
- Also Known As: Lazar Meir / Louis Burt Mayer / Louis Mayer / L.B. Mayer / L. B. Mayer / Lazar Mayer / Louis Burton Mayer / Ezemiel Mayer
- IMDB:nm0562454
Mayer was born Lazar Mayer in the Ukraine and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after his parents fled Russian oppression in 1886. He had a brutal childhood, raised in poverty and suffering physical and emotional abuse from his nearly-illiterate peddler father. In the early 1890s, he changed his name to Louis and fudged his birth date …
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