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- Category: Motion pictures
- Star rank: 2332
- Address:
1597 Vine St - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
- GPS location:
34.099297, -118.326813
Richard Rowland
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Biography
Richard A. Rowland
Source: bfi.org.uk
Richard A. Rowland (1880–1947) was an American film producer and studio executive. He was President of Metro Pictures Corporation. In 1919, when Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford formed United Artists to protect their work and control their careers, Rowland, then head of Metro Studios, famously remarked that 'the lunatics have taken over the asylum’.
Fact file
- Born: 1880
- Died: 1947 (Aged about 67)
- Occupation: Businessman and Studio Executive
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Vine St, west side, between Selma and Sunset
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