George Black

George Black (born April 20, 1890, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.—died March 4, 1945, London) was a British manager and producer of entertainments. Black originated the brilliant, long-lived “Crazy Gang” revues at the London Palladium and later at the Victoria Palace, London, and was a pioneer of the motion-picture business. As a young man, Black helped his father establish the first permanent motion-picture theatres in Great Britain. Later, he became proprietor of a circuit of theatres and...