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Also known as Wilhelm Fried Fuchs, Wilhelm Fuchs, Vilmos Fried, Fried Vilmos

Hungarian-American film producer

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William Fox was a male composer from the United States. His musical work is associated with genres including deltarune, digital fusion, electronic, and indie game soundtrack. He is recognized in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

The name William Fox is also associated with a producer who lived from 1879 to 1952 and had two children. Additionally, a writer named William Fox, active around 1791 and deceased in 1813, authored sixty-five works. These include addresses to the people of Great Britain regarding the utility of refraining from the use of West-India sugar and rum, as well as texts on the interest of Great Britain.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
fl. 1791
Died
1813
Works
65

Top works

  • An address to the people of Great-Britain on the utility of refraining from the use of West-India sugar & rum
  • An address to the people of Great Britain proving the necessity of refraining from sugar and rum in order to abolish the African slave-trade
  • An address to the people of Great-Britain (respectfully offered to the People of Ireland) on the propriety of abstaining from West-India sugar and rum
  • An address to the people of Great Britain, on the utility of repraining from the use of West India sugar and rum
  • The interest of Great Britain

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1991-10-11
composerdeltarunedigital fusionelectronicindie game soundtrackmusical comedy

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
185
Total plays
377

Tags

pipe organ

William Fox (born 1995) is an English organist, currently Sub-Organist of St Paul's Cathedral. Fox was successively a chorister at York Minster, Junior Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral and Organ Scholar at Hereford Cathedral. While in Hereford he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) and won the Turpin and Durrant prize. He then read Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, from where he graduated with First-Class Honours, and was Organ Scholar under the directorship of Daniel Hyde

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 63,006x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,855x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,582x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,951x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,686x

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Key facts

Born
Vilmos Fried , ( 1879-01-01 ) January 1, 1879, Tolcsva , Hungary , Austria-Hungary
Died
May 8, 1952 (1952-05-08) (aged 73), New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Entrepreneur
Years active
1900–1933
Spouse
Eva Leo ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1899 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

Vilmos Fried (German: Wilhelm Fuchs; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), known professionally as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s. Although he lost control of his film businesses in 1930, his name was used by 20th Century Fox (The Walt Disney Company) and continues to be used in the trademarks of the present-day Fox Corporation, including the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News, Fox Sports, and Foxtel.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Fox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.