Isidor "Bud" Barsky (June 19, 1891 – December 18, 1967) was a screenwriter and film producer active mainly during the silent era.
[1] Born in Ukraine in what was then part of the Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States as a young man and grew up in New York.
[2] At age 15, he toured Alaska's gold fields with a musical troupe.
[3] He founded the eponymous Bud Barsky Corporation in 1924, which concentrated mainly on action and western films.
In the 1930s he was the general manager of Columbia Pictures, and he was a producer at MGM, Warner Bros., and Grand National.