- Low-budget producer William M. Pizor began his career as a film distributor. He started producing "B" westerns in the 1920s with old-time cowboys like Al Hoxie and a series of two-reel comedies featuring child actors that were, frankly, a cheap imitation of the more famous "Our Gang" comedies. When sound came around Pizor continued his production of low-grade westerns and shorts with his companies Capitol Pictures and Imperial Productions.
Pizor had a reputation as among the most penurious of the notoriously tight-fisted Poverty Row producers, and judging by the films he produced, it was deserved. In 1939 he was sued by cowboy star Tim McCoy for breach of contract, and won a $37,000 judgment (a sum that was probably higher than the combined budgets of his previous half-dozen pictures).
Pizor left the business for a short while but returned in the '40s to go to work for low-budget production company Screen Guild. He next went to Lippert Pictures, where he was the head of its foreign distribution operation, before retiring. He died in New York City in 1969.
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- Father of producer Irwin Pizor.
- New York City, New York, Friday, November 10, 1939: "Tim McCoy, western star, yesterday was awarded a verdict of $32,000 plus $5,000 interest against William M. Pizor, president of Imperial Pictures, Inc., by a New York State Supreme Court jury. The trial, which lasted several days, was the result of a suit in which McCoy had claimed breach of contract made in February 1936 in which he was allegedly hired to make eight western features at $4,000 apiece for Pizor. McCoy claimed that none of the pictures were ever produced and he had been unable to secure other employment during that time. Pizor unsuccessfully contended that the contract was a corporate one and was not made by him as an individual.
- Founded low-budget "B" production company Imperial Pictures.
- Founded low-budget "B" production company Capitol Pictures.
- Toward the end of his career he was head of foreign distribution for Lippert Pictures.
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