Ralph Cohn

Producer
Born
May 1, 1914
Died
August 1, 1959

Cohn started Screen Gems as a subsidiary to Columbia Pictures and served as it's general manager. He was responsible for starting the The Ford Television Theatre (1952) on television and in 1952 was named vice president and general manager of Screen Gems, becoming president in 1958. Columbia…

Biography

Cohn started Screen Gems as a subsidiary to Columbia Pictures and served as it's general manager. He was responsible for starting the The Ford Television Theatre (1952) on television and in 1952 was named vice president and general manager of Screen Gems, becoming president in 1958. Columbia Pictures' willingness to enter television production flew in the face of then-prevailing industry mentality, but Screen Gems would prove to be an extremely lucrative business for the company well into the 1970's. Cohn's body lies at Mt. Carmel cemetery in Queens.

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