Thomas Lincoln Tally

Male, Deceased Person

1861 – 1945

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Who was Thomas Lincoln Tally?

Thomas Lincoln Tally on or near April 16, 1902, opened his Electric Theater in Los Angeles, the first movie theatre in that city and the first movie theater in California known to have been built from the ground up inside a larger building on the ground floor..

With James Dixon Williams he founded First National Pictures. He was the first to show a color movie in Los Angeles in 1912, and he was the first to sign Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford to a movie contract.

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Born
1861
Texas
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Died
Nov 24, 1945

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on July 23, 2013

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