- Upon his death, his remains were interred at Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York.
- Chairman Emeritus of Paramount Pictures, until his death at age 103.
- Paramount Pictures sold the candles on Zukor's 100th birthday cake for $1,000 each, and then donated the proceeds to charity.
- He was credited as presenter to Paramount cartoons from 1935-39. These cartoons were acquired by television distributors U.M.&M., National Telefilm Associates and Associated Artists Productions in 1955. The television distributors were instructed to remove all evidence of Paramount's involvement in the cartoons. The "Adolph Zukor Presents" byline was kept on, but the "Paramount Presents" bylines were blacked out. The television distributors apparently did not think that anyone would recognize Zukor as Paramount's chairman.
- Grandfather of Adolph Zukor II and Jim Zukor.
- Founder of the Famous Players Film Company, formed in 1912. In 1915, the studio burned down, and the company was thereafter merged with Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company to become Famous Players-Lasky Film Company.
- Paramount-Publix went bankrupt in 1933, and was reorganized as Paramount Pictures, Inc. He was forced out as part of the reorganization, but after Barney Balaban became Paramount president in 1936, he appointed Zukor chairman of the board. In return, Zukor always called Balaban "the boy." They served together 28 years, until Balaban was forced out of Paramount in 1964 after the failure of the big-budgeted The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).
- Paramount Pictures Corporation merged with Viacom International, Inc. Together, the merged companies own the United Paramount Network (UPN), the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and all its subsidiaries, the TVLand network, the Comedy Central network, the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network, Blockbuster Inc., The Spelling Entertainment Corporation and its subsidiaries, owned by Aaron Spelling, Showtime Networks Inc., the Country Music Television (CMT) network, the Spike TV network, the Video Hits 1 (VH1) network, Music Television (MTV) Networks, the Nickelodeon network and Nick at Nite.
Viacom split into two companies, the new Viacom Inc. and CBS Corporation on December 31, 2005. CBS Corporation re-branded Paramount's television distributing division as CBS Paramount Television, comprised of three divisions: CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Paramount Domestic Television and CBS Paramount International Television. - Co-founded Artcraft Pictures Corporation in 1916, which eventually became Paramount Pictures.
- President of film production company Charles Frohman Inc., formed in 1922.
- Founded production/distribution company Realart Pictures Corporation in 1920.
- Acquired control of Lewis J. Selznick's Selznick Pictures Corporation in 1917 and renamed it Select Pictures Corporation. Selznick later bought the company back and changed the name back to Selznick Pictures Corporation.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1617 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- Died in his sleep 10th June 1976.
- Zukor was the driving force behind Paramount's success. Through the teens and twenties, he also built the Publix Theatres Corporation, a chain of nearly 2000 screens. He also ran two production studios, one in Astoria, New York (now the Kaufman Astoria Studios) and the other in Hollywood, California.
- Zukor is buried at the Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
- He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.
- Like most immigrants, he began modestly. After landing in New York City, he began working in an upholstery shop. A friend then got him a job as an apprentice at a furrier.
- In 1913 , Adolph Zukor obtained the financial backing of the Frohman brothers, the powerful New York City theatre impresarios. Their primary goal was to bring noted stage actors to the screen and Zukor went on to produce The Prisoner of Zenda (1913). He purchased an armory on 26th Street in Manhattan and converted it into Chelsea Studios, a movie studio that is still used today.
- By 1910, Zukor already owned a nickelodeon chain and became Marcus Leow's partner in a theater circuit. Two years later, he sold his shares in Loew's company in order to purchase the French film, Queen Elizabeth.
- In 1912, Adolph Zukor established Famous Players Film Company-advertising "Famous Players in Famous Plays"-as the American distribution company for the French film production Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth starring Sarah Bernhardt.
- When he was 16, he decided to emigrate to the United States. He sailed from Hamburg on the s/s Rugia on March 1 and arrived in New York City under the name Adolf Zuckery on March 16, 1891.
- Zukor was a Freemason at Centennial Lodge No. 673, New York.
- He eventually spent most of his time in New York City, but passed the winter months in Hollywood to check on his studio.
- In 1903, he became involved in the film industry when his cousin, Max Goldstein, approached him for a loan to invest in a chain of theaters. These theaters were started by Mitchell Mark in Buffalo, New York, and hosted Edisonia Hall. Mark needed investors to expand his chain of theaters. Zukor gave Goldstein the loan and formed a partnership with Mark and Morris Kohn, a friend of Zukor's who also invested in the theaters. Zukor, Mark, and Kohn opened a penny arcade operating as The Automatic Vaudeville Company on 14th Street in New York City. They soon opened branches in Boston, Philadelphia, and Newark, with funding by Marcus Loew.
- He retired from Paramount Pictures in 1959 and in 1964, stepped down as chairman and assumed Chairman Emeritus status, a position he held up until his death at the age of 103 in Los Angeles.
- In 1918, he moved to New City, Rockland County, New York, where he purchased 300 acres of land from Lawrence Abraham, heir to the A&S Department Stores. Abraham had already built a sizable house, a nine-hole golf course and a swimming pool on this property. Two years later, Zukor bought an additional 500 acres, built a night house, guest house, movie theater, locker room, greenhouses, garages and staff quarters, and hired golf architect A.W. Tillinghast to build an 18-hole championship golf course. Today, Zukor's estate is the private Paramount Country Club.
- The 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago drew him to the Midwest. There he started a fur business. In the second season of operation, Zukor's Novelty Fur Company expanded to 25 men and opened a branch.
- Zukor stayed in New York City for two years. When he left to become a "contract" worker, sewing fur pieces and selling them himself, he was 20 years old and an accomplished designer.
- Historian Neal Gabler wrote, "one of the stubborn fallacies of movie history is that the men who created the film industry were all impoverished young vulgarians..." Zukor clearly didn't fit this profile.
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