George Green (businessman)

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George Green (1861–1915), was a British cinema pioneer.

Early life

George Green was born in Preston in 1861, the son of a master cabinet maker.^[1]

Career

He started his career as an apprenticed to a watchmaker, but through a bad debt owed to his father, came to own a fairground carousel and slowly built this into a number of travelling shows. Green chose Glasgow as a base for his travelling show business and ran his first moving picture show at Christmas Carnival in 1896.^[1]

Personal life

His sons Fred Green and Bert Green joined him in business after leaving school, and by 1920 had become the most successful cinema proprietors and film renters in Scotland, before opening cinemas, Green's Playhouse.^[1]

Green's Playhouse was an entertainment complex comprising a cinema, ballroom, tea rooms and other facilities. The Playhouse was at 126 Renfield Street, Glasgow, Scotland, commissioned by George Green Ltd, designed by the architect John Fairweather, and built by the Cinema Building Company. Opened in 1927, the Playhouse operated until the 1970s, a decline in audience numbers in the 1960s necessitated diversification as a music venue until closure in 1973. The building continued in use as the Apollo, after being acquired by Unicorn Leisure on a lease-holding arrangement, until final closure in 1985, with subsequent demolition in 1987.

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References

1 2 3 "Biography of 'Green family'". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 15 December 2015.

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[NLS-1] 1 2 3 "Biography of 'Green family'". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 15 December 2015.