Oscar Deutsch

[2] After attending King Edward VI Five Ways Grammar School, he started work at his father's metal firm in Birmingham.

In 1925, he rented cinemas in Wolverhampton and Coventry and started exhibiting subsequent runs of films.

Deutsch became a director of the UK arm of United Artists, who had acquired a 50% stake in Odeon Cinema Holdings.

The name Odeon had been appropriated by cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, but Deutsch made it his own in the UK.

His publicity team claimed Odeon stood for "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation".