Harry Warner

ABOUT HARRY WARNER

Influential film executive who co-founded Warner Bros. Pictures with his three brothers Albert, Sam, and Jack. Shortly after his death in 1958, his wife claimed that he died of a broken heart caused by his long feud with his brother Jack Warner .

He opened his first business, a bicycle shop, in 1899.

He was the president of Warner Bros. Pictures until two years before his death.

He was married to his longtime girlfriend Rea Levinson on August 23, 1907. The couple had three children: Lewis, Doris, and Betty.

He helped to develop the career of Hollywood director Michael Curtiz .