Record ID:
35295833 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18821202
Death:
  • 19360701
Used for:
  • Thring, Francis William, 1882-1936
  • Thring, Frank, 1882-1936
Notes:
  • ADB online accessed 4 Sept. 2017: (Francis William (Frank) Thring (1882-1936), entrepreneur, was born on 2 December 1882 at Wentworth, New South Wales; he became a conjurer in the outback before starting Biograph Pictures in Tasmania; he worked as a bootmaker at Gawler, South Australia; about 1911 Thring began his Melbourne theatrical career as a projectionist at Kreitmayer's Waxworks. He opened the Paramount Theatre in 1915 and in 1918 became managing director of J. C. Williamson Films Ltd. After this company merged in 1926 with Hoyts Pty Ltd to form Hoyts Theatres Ltd, Thring became managing director; in 1930 he sold his large holdings in Hoyts to Fox Film Corporation and announced his intention to establish the talking film industry in Australia under the trade name (from his initials) Efftee Film Productions; he died of cancer on 1 July 1936 in East Melbourne and was buried in Burwood cemetery) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/thring-francis-william-frank-8803
Local system number:
  • 000000297352
  • abv07063942
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng VSL
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc