Robert Laemmle, the owner and establisher plivent of California’s arthouse chain Laemmle Theaters, has died. He was 89.
Deadline validates that Robert died on Thursday at Berkley East Healthinclude Cgo in in Santa Monica. A cause of death was not instantly understandn.
Robert’s son Greg Laemmle, who took over as Laemmle Theatres plivent in 2004, telderly the Los Angeles Times his overweighther was hospitalized after suffering a drop at his Santa Monica home on Dec. 23.
Born Sept. 5, 1935 in Paris, Bob Laemmle immigrated to the United States with his family in 1938, the same year his overweighther Max and uncle Kurt Laemmle begined their first cinemas in Highland Park. Their uncle Carl Laemmle previously co-established Universal Pictures in 1912.
Robert joined the family business in 1961 before eventupartner taking over for his overweighther. Although he reexhausted in 2004, Robert persistd going into the office until 2020.
Robert is endured by his wife Michelle and his children Greg, Jessica, Yvonne, Michelle, David, Carri, Mitchell, Maitland and Robert, as well as 13 magnificentchildren.
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