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Isidore Ostrer (1889–1975) was a banker, financier, poet, newspaper owner, and film studio owner in England. His father, Nathan Ostrer, was a jewellery salesman who immigrated from the Russian Empire. In addition to assembling a media empire he wrote poetry and authored an economics text.
GB employed people of the calibre of Alfred Hitchcock, Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood. The person who "made it all possible" was a quiet-spoken and somewhat reclusive individual called Isidore Ostrer.
Isidore Ostrer (1889-1975), Poet, financier and economist. Sitter in 27 portraits
Isidore Ostrer (1889–1975) was a banker, financier, poet, newspaper owner, and film studio owner in England. His father, Nathan Ostrer, was a jewellery salesman who immigrated from the Russian Empire. In addition to assembling a media empire he wrote poetry and authored an economics text.
Fearing German invasion and the consequences for a prominent Jewish family, Isidore Ostrer and his second wife were somehow chauffeured through occupied France to Marseilles, where they boarded a ship to America, eventually settling in Arizona.
A history of the Ostrer family and their film company, Gaumont British, tracing its development from the early 1900s films of Leon Gaumont through the company's heyday in the 1930s to the takeover by Odeon at the end of World War Two. The book is written by the nephew of Gaumont British founder Isidore Ostrer and the first part provides a ...
The founder was Isidore Ostrer, assisted by his brothers, Mark(centre) Maurice(right) In 1922, Isidore Ostrer as President and in association with his brothers, gained Leon Gaumont’s holding in the original Gaumont Company.
