Biography

Amedee James Van Beuren, born James Vignot, motion picture producer and executive, died at his home in Carmel, N. Y. in November 1938, from a heart ailment that started July 1938. He was 58 years old and New York born. Six months before, Mr. Van Beuren retired from active participation in the motion picture business and others in which he had been interested. He had been chairman of the board of Condor Pictures and president and general manager of Van Beuren Corporation, besides holding the presidencies of Schuyler Securities Corporation, Ayee Bee Corporation, Kerneb Corporation, and Colorado Springs Theatre Corporation.

Mr. Van Beuren's father, Alfred Vignot, died when Mr. Van Beuren was a boy, and when his mother married again, he legally adopted the name of his stepfather. Educated at public and private schools and business college, Mr. Van Beuren had been an executive of Van Beuren Bill Posting Company, founded by his stepfather, before entering the film business about 1918. The film corporation bearing his name produced such product as the "Aesop's Fables" series, animated cartoons and the Frank Buck features, "Bring 'Em Back Alive," "Wild Cargo" and "Fang and Claw." In recent years he had produced only short subjects, including "The Struggle to Live," "Rainbow Parade Color Cartoons," "Dumbbell Letters," "Sports with Bill Corum" and "Easy Aces." The company released through RKO.

Surviving Mr. Van Beuren were a brother, Henry V. Van Beuren of Norwalk, Connecticut, and two sisters, Mrs. Alfred Barrett and Mrs. Henry Lanthier, both of Flushing, Long Island. Mr. Van Beuren had made his homes at 444 West 56th Street, New York City, and Carmel, N. Y., and had been a member of the Elks and New York Athletic Clubs.
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