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Encyclopedia > William Sistrom

An English film producer. Born in Lincolnshire, England, on March 19, 1886, and got his start at Universal Pictures. He joined RKO in 1935, where he worked on the film adaption of Leslie Charteris' The Saint in New York.


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North Carolinians and the Great War: Introduction to the Soldiers' Experience (12158 words)
William Umstead, served as a junior officer Eighty-first's 317th Machine Gun Battalion, but he was one of only nine North Carolinians in his regiment.
William Umstead and other officers usually conducted the Sunday schools classes and delivered the lectures.
Former officer William Umstead had a political career that last from the 1920s through the 1950s, but he rarely drew attention to his army service to win votes.
Skullduggery-Lon Chaney Sr. (1365 words)
Sistrom's response was less than negative, as he pointed out in scathing detail that character actors of Chaney’s "ilk" weren’t worth more than $100.00 a week.
Rankled and unable to forget Sistrom’s rather cold response, years later, Chaney would make it a moral point of getting $50.00 a week more added to his contracts, regardless of how much he was offered.
Chaney was nearly forced to return to Universal, when William S. Hart, one of the screen’s biggest box-office stars asked Chaney to appear opposite him in Hart's next major film.
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