Louis B. Mayer
Born: 1884-07-12 in Dymer, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyshhorod Raion, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine]
Died: 1957-10-29
Known For: Production
Biography
Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir in the Russian Empire; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM). Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors and stars in Hollywood. Mayer was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Filmography
2025
- Gene Kelly: An American in Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Rat Pack as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Sid & Judy as Self (archive photos)
2009
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Stardust: The Bette Davis Story as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Judy Garland: By Myself as Self (archive footage)
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel as Self (archive footage)
- So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM as Self (archive footage)
1995
- The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1986
- Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
1980
- Hollywood as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
1972
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
1952
- Actors and Sin as Louis B. Mayer (Woman of Sin sequence) (archive footage)
1940
- I Take This Woman ... (Producer)
1938
- Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)
1937
1928
- West of Zanzibar ... (Presenter)
- Detectives ... (Producer)
1926
- Vårt kronprinspar i Hollywood
- Mike ... (Presenter)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ... (Producer)
- Proud Flesh ... (Presenter)
- Excuse Me ... (Presenter)
- 1925 Studio Tour as Self
- Man and Maid ... (Producer)
1924
- Greed ... (Executive Producer)
- So This Is Marriage? ... (Presenter)
- He Who Gets Slapped ... (Presenter)
- Thy Name Is Woman ... (Producer)
- Wine of Youth ... (Producer)
- The Snob ... (Presenter)
1923
- Hearts Aflame ... (Presenter)
- Strangers of the Night ... (Producer)
- The Famous Mrs. Fair ... (Presenter)
1922
- Seeing Stars as Self
- Rose o' the Sea ... (Producer)
- The Woman He Married ... (Producer)
1921
- Habit ... (Producer)
- Playthings of Destiny ... (Producer)
1920
- The Inferior Sex ... (Producer)
- Old Dad ... (Presenter)
- Harriet and the Piper ... (Producer)
- The Fighting Shepherdess ... (Producer)
1919
- Her Kingdom of Dreams ... (Producer)
- A Midnight Romance ... (Producer)
- Mary Regan ... (Producer)
- Human Desire ... (Producer)
1918
- Virtuous Wives ... (Producer)
1917
- The Great Secret ... (Producer)
1916
- Lovely Mary ... (Producer)
- Dimples ... (Producer)
1915
- Always in the Way ... (Producer)
- Barbara Frietchie ... (Producer)