| Beldon Katleman | |
| Birth Date: | July 14, 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Iowa, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting Place: | Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation: | Businessman |
| Spouse: | Leonore Cohn |
| Children: | 1 |
Beldon Katleman (July 14, 1914 – September 28, 1988) was an American businessman. Katleman inherited partnership in El Rancho Vegas, a hotel casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, from his uncle Jake Katleman who died in 1950, and served as president of the hotel.[1] Katleman was an investor in two other Las Vegas casinos, the Frontier Hotel and the Silver Slipper.
Beldon Katleman was born to an affluent Jewish family[2] on July 14, 1914, in Iowa. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.[3] His parents owned the Circle K national chain of parking lots and owned real estate in Los Angeles.[4] During World War II, Katleman served as a lieutenant in the motion picture division of the Signal Corps in the U.S. Army.
From the early 1950s until it was destroyed by a fire in 1960, he was stockholder and president of El Rancho Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada.[5]
With Guy McAfee and Jake Kozloff, Katleman acquired the Frontier Hotel from Bill Moore for US$5.5 million in 1951.[6] He succeeded Kozloff as its manager in 1955.[3]
Katleman was an investor in the Silver Slipper, another casino in Las Vegas, alongside Jack Barenfeld, Norma Friedman, Irving Leff and T.W. Richardson.[7] After leasing it to Howard Hughes since 1968, they sued Hughes over a year's unpaid rents in 1974.[7]
In April 1988, the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee Senate reviewed the "murky" settlement of taxes Katleman may have owed to the state of California in the 1960s.[8]
In January 1941, Katleman married Leonore Cohn, whom he had met at the Hillcrest Country Club, the Jewish golf club in Los Angeles; Leonore was the niece of Columbia Pictures founder Harry Cohn. In 1942, They had a daughter named Diane Katleman Deshong.[9] They resided in Beverly Hills, California.[9] The couple separated in 1944 and divorced soon after; she married Lewis Rosenstiel in 1946.[9]
Katleman died on September 28, 1988, in Los Angeles, California. He was buried at the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.