Ananda Max Salomon (January 15, 1891''U.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 Teddington Studios was a large British television studio in Teddington, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, providing studio facilities for programmes airing on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky1 and others. The complex also prov ...

. Salomon was born in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

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, Germany, and moved to San Francisco when he was one year old. His father, Max Salomon, was born in Illinois and his mother, Wilhelmina "Minna" Welte Salomon, was German. He was a cousin of

Jack L. Warner Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanned some ...

's first wife Irma Solomons (1916–1935), and became Warner's first employee, and eventually head of Warner's British operation. He was killed in a

V-1 flying bomb The V-1 flying bomb (german: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry () designation was Fi 103. It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug and in Germany ...

attack at Warner Bros. Studios in

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, Staines, while recording the sound of the V-1s. Salomon was cremated and his ashes returned to

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

. He was survived by his wife, Joan Denise Salomon.

Films

*''The Side Show'' Jack Born and Elmer Lawrence sound short

Vitaphone Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one ...

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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Salomon, Doc 1891 births 1944 deaths American film directors American Jews German emigrants to the United States American civilians killed in World War II Deaths by airstrike during World War II