As per our current Database, George W. Weeks has been died on 16 November, 1953 at Hollywood, California, USA.
When George W. Weeks die, George W. Weeks was 68 years old.
| Popular As | George W. Weeks |
| Occupation | Producer |
| Age | 68 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Born | March 21, 1885 (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) |
| Birthday | March 21 |
| Town/City | Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
George W. Weeks’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
George W. Weeks was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
George Warren Weeks,Jr. was born in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan in 1885 to George W. Weeks and Lucy S. Harnden Weeks, and father George was the proprietor of a local market garden as well as a coal and wood yard.
George Jr.'s movie career spanned about forty-five years and his specialty was theater management, movie sales, and film distribution. 1909 issues of Nickelodeon and Moving Picture World trade publications had news of his early years in Detroit:"Detroit, Mich.
- Harry D. Brackett and George W. Weeks have taken over the active management of the Michigan Film and Supply Company, 1106 Union Trust building. Mr. Brackett will be manager, Mr. Weeks representative, while William F.
Klatt will remain as president of the company, which controls about half the moving picture theaters of the city and about 40 per cent in the state." In the early 1910s, Weeks managed several of John Kunsky's Detroit theaters.
Then came a stint running the Detroit office of the Universal Film company, and circa 1915, he was appointed manager of the Detroit office of the Metro Film Corporation. In 1917, he went to work for M.
H. Hoffman as division manager of the Detroit Foursquare Exchange which distributed to Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Circa 1918, he was appointed as representative for Famous Players-Lasky (Paramount and Artcraft pictures).
And soon after, he was General Manager of Famous Players-Lasky Film Service, Ltd., of Canada, with headquarters in Toronto.More responsibility came his way in the 1920s. Weeks was one of three Division Sales Managers for the Lasky / Paramount organization, and in 1925, he became General Manager of Distribution for Lasky / Paramount.
In the late 1920s, Famous Players-Lasky / Paramount and Metro decided to create a specialized group to handle sales and distribution of their shorts and Weeks was selected as boss of that unit.In 1929, he was vice president and general manager of new independent production company Sono Art, and became Executive Vice President when Sono Art and World Wide Pictures merged later that year.
Ralph M. Like's Action Pictures, Inc. had been around for a few years, churning out low budget adventure, crime and melodramas for the states right market. In early 1932, the company became Mayfair Pictures and Weeks was appointed as President.
Alas, Mayfair continued to struggle and went belly up in 1934 but Weeks wasn't around at the end. Trades indicate he resigned the pres job in July, 1933 due to health issues ... or to start a new company.
His next stop was early 1934 when he became general sales manager for Gaumont- British Pictures, and he was with G-B through late 1937. In March, 1938, Weeks began a new job as general sales manager for the reorganized Monogram Pictures.
In early 1940, Weeks resigned that sales job and became an independent producer releasing through Monogram. Plans were for a western series featuring multiple heroes, and scuttlebutt was that Ray 'Crash' Corrigan, a former member of Republic Pictures' Three Mesquiteers trio, was involved in the decision making.
In a long ago interview, Corrigan mentioned that he got a cut of the profits ... and we do know that much of the series was filmed at the "Ray Corrigan Ranch" (as well as Iversons, the Monogram town set, etc.
). The new series was initially called "The Two Pals", and Corrigan and John King were the stars. With the addition of Max Terhune, they became "The Three Pals". Thankfully, another name change occurred and the "Range Busters" were born.
The July 2, 1940 issue of Motion Picture Daily had news on Weeks' organization and plan:"Phoenix Productions has been formed with George Weeks as president and Anna Belle Ward as Vice President and associate producer.
Weeks formerly was vice-president of Monogram in charge of sales and Miss Ward is assistant general manager of Elliott-Ward Enterprises, theater circuit, at Lexington, Ky. The company plans eight Westerns in a series to be known as 'The Range Busters' for Monogram release.
" Twenty-four westerns were released from 1940 - 1943. The first, aptly titled The Range (Monogram, 1940), hit the theaters in Summer, 1940. Bullets and Saddles (Monogram, 1943) was the finale and released in Fall, 1943.
The demise of the Busters wasn't a problem for Monogram. The little studio had hired Johnny Mack Brown in early 1943 and his initial entries were distributed along with the final batch of Range Busters.
And Monogram had brought two old timers back to the silver screen - Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson were their new "Trail Blazers", working for producer and director Robert Emmett 'Bob' Tansey.After the Busters rode off into Hollywood history, Weeks' career faltered.
He connected with Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) for a film or two, but nothing came out of that brief relationship. He later dabbled in 16mm films for the non-theatrical market (educational, religious and home).
September, 1952 trade publications had news of Monogram / Allied Artists purchasing the Monogram franchised exchange in Detroit which was owned by George Weeks, William B. Hurlbut and Jack Saxe.As to family and personal life, Meeks married Alice Zoe Begole (1884 - 1973) in 1905 in Michigan and daughter Dorothea Zoe Weeks was born in 1907.
Family trees on Ancestry.com indicate that Dorothy Zoe Mapletoft passed away in 1952 in New Jersey.Suffering for years from obesity, asthma, and heart problems, George Warren Weeks passed away from a heart attack on November 16, 1953 at his home in Van Nuys, California.
