| LC control no. | n 81067280 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Koenig, Lester |
| Variant(s) | Koenig, Les |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1917-12-03 |
| Death date | 1977-11-21 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Motion picture industry Sound recording industry |
| Affiliation | Contemporary Records (Firm) |
| Profession or occupation | Sound recording executives and producers Screenwriters Motion picture producers |
| Found in | Brown, R. Something for Lester [SR] c1978 (a.e.) on container (Lester Koenig, jazz record producer) The Memphis Belle: a story of a Flying Fortress, 1944: (NNNN; name not given) Eagan, D. America's film legacy, 2010: p. 369 (Memphis Belle; narration written by Sgt. Lester Koenig) Wikipedia WWW site, viewed June 12, 2023 (Lester Koenig; born, December 3, 1917 in New York, N.Y.; died, November 21, 1977 in Los Angeles, California; American screenwriter, film producer, and founder of the jazz record label Contemporary Records) AllMusic WWW site, viewed June 12, 2023 The Contemporary Records Story overview (Les Koenig founded and operated the Contemporary label from 1952 until his death in 1977; A Dartmouth and Yale law graduate; worked as a screenwriter, assistant, and co-producer to William Wyler; blacklisted during the McCarthy era; began producing sessions for the JazzMan label before founding his own Good Time Jazz imprint; Contemporary was an offshoot of the Good Time trademark, but it quickly took over) California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997 viewed June 12, 2023 via Ancestry.com (Lester H. Koenig; born, December 3, 1917; died, November 21, 1977) |
| Associated language | eng |
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