Excerpt from
Who Really Controls Hollywood
by John Cones

20th Century Fox
The top several executives at 20th Century-Fox, since its inception have been:

Name Race Sex Heritage Source
William Fox (Fried) White Male Jewish [Katz, 478.]
Sidney R. Kent White Male [Lasky, 97 & 145]
Joseph M. Schenck White Male Jewish [Johnson, 464]
Darryl F. Zanuck White Male Swiss-Protestant [Gabler, 349]
Sol Wurtzel White Male Jewish [Gabler, 306 & 341.]
William Goetz White Male Jewish [Herald Examiner, 8-19-69.]
Spyros Skouras White Male Greek Orthodox [Lasky, 46]
Richard Zanuck White Male Protestant
Alan Ladd, Jr. White Male non-Jewish [Friedman, 76 & Bart, 255.]
Dennis C. Stanfill White Male Protestant [Personal correspondence]
Alan J. Hirschfield White Male Jewish [McClintick, 510/Erens,392.]
Sherry Lansing White Female Jewish [Sachar, 834.]
Marvin Davis White Male Jewish [Sachar, 661.]
Lawrence Gordon White Male
Barry Diller White Male Jewish [Friedman, 76.]
Strauss Zelnick White Male
Rupert Murdoch White Male
Tom Scherak White Male
Joe Roth White Male Jewish Name
Peter Chernin White Male [Variety, Nov. 28, '94, 1.]
Bill Mechanic White Male [Variety, Nov. 28, '94, 1.]


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