Alan Hirschfield [SEP] educated at
when he was 3-years old, where his father worked for Allen & Company's natural gas operations. Alan Hirschfield received a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma and a master's degree from Harvard Business School. After school, he went to work for Allen & Company (he was a close friend with its founder Charles Allen Jr.) and after Allen & Company took a financial stake in the film studio Warner Bros., Hirschfield was appointed financial vice president.
In 1973, again after Allen & Co took a financial
Alan Hirschfield
Alan James Hirschfield (October 10, 1935 – January 15, 2015) was an American film studio executive and philanthropist. Hirschfield served as the CEO of Columbia Pictures from 1973 to 1978 and the chairman of 20th Century Fox from 1982 until 1986. Outside of the film industry, Hirschfield helped Clive Davis establish Arista Records in the 1970s.
Biography.
Hirschfield was born to a Jewish family in New York City on October 10, 1935, to Norman and Betty Hirschfield. The family moved to Oklahoma City