Ananda Max Salomon (January 15, 1891U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 – 5 July 1944)Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974 was an American film director and studio manager at Teddington Studios.John Huntley British film music 194, Page 220
Salomon was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and moved to San Francisco when he was one year old.1910 United States Federal Census His father, Max Salomon, was born in Illinois and his mother, Wilhelmina "Minna" Welte Salomon, was German.1900 United States Federal Census He was a cousin of Jack L. Warner's first wife Irma Solomons (1916–1935), and became Warner's first employee,Cass Warner Sperling, Cork Millner, Jack Warner (1998). Hollywood be Thy Name: The Warner Brothers Story 0813109582, p. 68. "Irma's cousin Doc Salomon, who had been a salesman for the Warner exchange in San Francisco, left the city by the bay and became the fledgling studio's first employee, serving as janitor, office boy, night watchman, and eventually the prop man." and eventually head of Warner's British operation.
He was killed in a V-1 flying bomb attack at Warner Bros. Studios in Teddington, Staines, while recording the sound of the V-1s.American Aeronaut (1944). Volume 5, Page 3Michael E. Birdwell (1999). Celluloid Soldiers: The Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism 0814713386Steven Bingen (2014). Warner Bros.: Hollywood's Ultimate Backlot Page 26. 1589799623 Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Civilian War Deaths casualty record, accessed 12 January 2022.
Salomon was cremated and his ashes returned to San Francisco. He was survived by his wife, Joan Denise Salomon.
Films The Side Show Jack Born and Elmer Lawrence sound short Vitaphone 1928Edwin M. Bradley The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931 2005 - Page 363 1476606846 "Born and Lawrence in “The Side Show,” with Walter Rodgers, Vitaphone"
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