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Robert Naify
American businessperson (d.2016)
Robert Naify was an American businessman and motion picture and media tycoon known for his ownership of the movie theaters chain United Artists Theatres, the largest and most geographically diverse theatre circuit in the United States, today part of Regal Cinemas.[1] He also founded the cable company United Artists Communications Inc and post-production and sound mixing firm Todd-AO.
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He lived in San Francisco, California until his death on April 7, 2016 at the age of 94.[2]
Career
Naify, the son of a Lebanese immigrant who built a movie theater empire beginning in 1912, has worked in the theater business nearly all his life.
His father got into movie business in Atlantic City with a movie theater in 1912 where Robert and brother Marshall Naify (d. 2000) started as ushers, projectionists. The Naify brothers built the first movie screen in San Francisco, the New Fillmore and The Clay, which was first a nickelo