Paul Davidson

Paul Davidson was born on Mar 30, 1867 in Poland]. Paul Davidson's big-screen debut came with Die Insel der Seligen directed by Max Reinhardt in 1913, strarring .

Davidson worked in the garment trade before founding the Allgemeine Kinematographen-Theater Gesellschaft, Union-Theater für lebende und Tonbilder G.m.B.H. (A.K.T.G.) in Frankfurt am Main on 21 March 1906 and opening a cinema, the Union-Theater (U.T.), in Mannheim, Germany, in June the same year. Three years later on 4 September 1909, Davidson opens his first movie palace in Berlin, the U.T. am Alexanderplatz. He follows it with the even more plush U.T. Unter den Linden on 21 August 1910. In less than ten years, Davidson creates an empire of over 56 cinemas in Germany, Belgium, and Hungary, drawing 6 million patrons in 1913.