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Mike Gore (July 6, 1878 – August 16, 1953) was a movie theater owner who received a star on the

Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a historic landmark which consists of more than 2,700 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, Californ ...

for his work in Motion pictures. His star is located in the sidewalk in front of 6315 Hollywood Blvd. Gore came to the United States from the Russian Empire as a child, settling first in Chicago where he later was in the cigar-manufacturing business. He came to Los Angeles in 1906, when the movie industry was in its early days. He was a co-founder of the West Coast Theatres chain of first-run movie theaters in 1920.

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1878 births 1953 deaths Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Businesspeople from California Place of birth missing {{US-film-bio-stub