Biography

Nimrod Alexander was a pioneer of modern cinema. He began making movies in 1909. The first actress he worked with was Louise Brooks. Nimrod Alexander knew all the early movie stars, such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. He knew Mary Pickford.

Nimrod's father was John and his grandfather was Malik Kambar, a Jewish merchant from Istanbul, Turkey. He sent his grandson money and encouraged him to work with Jews in the garment district of NYC. Nimrod Alexander came to Southern California and encouraged these Jewish men to come to sunny California and make movies without artificial lights. The first film stages were nothing but four walls with an open ceiling where sunshine came through without incurring electric bills. Later, they placed silk screens to soften the light.

Some of the early pioneers of the silent cinema were Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennet. Nimrod Alexander encouraged D. W. Griffith to come to Hollywood. One of the greatest film directors, he was to do a film about the sack of Babylon. It was the first five-reeler or a two hour feature film. All movies were shot on 35mm motion picture film.

As the discovery of oil in the Middle East during mid-19th Century finally made it possible for automobiles and transportation to become of major importance, and then there were the ships and airplanes that used oil and gasoline, WW I broke out over the oil wealth of the Middle East. At this point the Ottoman Empire became the target of the Western Allies, the English speaking people, Great Britain and the United States.

Nimrod Alexander had amassed a great deal of wealth from selling movie rights. He had sold RKO Studios to Howard Hughes for $50,000,000. He knew Howard Hughes Sr also and the drilling gear which was essential for reaching oil wells deep under the surface, the drill was self-cleaning. At 18, Howard Hughes Sr's father passed away and Howard Hughes took over his father's fortune.

As a CIA man, Nimrod Alexander saved some important people from Nazi Germany and brought them to the US. He brought the German Lutheran rocket scientist Werhner Von Braun to the US, and he was the scientist to put a man on the moon when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy wanted to do it. Nimrod Alexander also brought Marlene Dietrich out of Nazi Germany. He helped Hedy Lamarr get movie roles in Paramount Studios. She had escaped out of Nazi occupied Austria, where her father, uncle and husband perished in concentration camps, but she and her mother made it out.

One of Nimrod Alexander's friends was Orson Wells. He financed some of his movies.

Nimrod Alexander spent the years of prosperity loafing around with such friends as Errol Flynn and the major movie stars of the 1950s.
- IMDb mini biography by: Vic Alexander

Nimrod Alexander financed King Nimrod.