Isidor "Bud" Barsky | |
Birth Date: | June 19, 1891 |
Birth Place: | Odesa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Date: | December 18, 1967 (aged 76) |
Death Place: | Westwood, California, United States |
Othername: | Isador J. Barsky |
Occupation: | Producer, Writer |
Yearsactive: | 1923–1937 |
Isidor "Bud" Barsky (June 19, 1891 – December 18, 1967) was a screenwriter and film producer active mainly during the silent era.[1]
Born in Ukraine in what was then part of the Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States as a young man and grew up in New York.[2] At age 15, he toured Alaska's gold fields with a musical troupe.[3] During the First World War, he served in the Signal Corps. He founded the eponymous Bud Barsky Corporation in 1924, which concentrated mainly on action and western films.[4] He also directed one film, The Coast Patrol, in 1925. In the 1930s he was the general manager of Columbia Pictures, and he was a producer at MGM, Warner Bros., and Grand National. He died at the UCLA Medical Center in 1967.