William Pizor

William M. Pizor (1890–1959) was a pioneering film producer who also had a distribution company, Imperial Distributing Corporation. He was also president of production company Imperial Pictures. His son Irwin Pizor succeeded him in the film business.

He handled Westerns, documentaries, and foreign films he distributed in the U.S. Pizor made a deal with producer Louis Weiss to purchase 8 2-reel westerns.

Pizor produced a narrated travelogue short film about Olvera Street in 1937 titled A Street of Memory. It is extant.

Filmography Out Of Step - A Live Wire Comedy. (c1920) with Art Hammond & Alice Doll - an extant film in the Niles Essanay Silent Film Archive. The Sea Feast - A Live Wire Comedy. (c1920) Poster Survives A Chocolate Cowboy - A Cyclone Comedy (1925) Poster Survives, Gasoline Cowboy (1926) The Mansion of Mystery (1927 The Rustler's End (1928) Flash of the Forest (1928) The Tom-Boy, a comedy with Teddy Reavis. Extant. Trails of Treachery (1928) starring Montana Bill The House of Terror (1928) starring Fat O'Brien and Dorothy Tallcott The Sea Feast (1929) Raffles N' Rubber (1931) Secret Menace (1931) The Galloping Kid (1932 film) (1932) The Seventh Wonder (1933 Manhattan Butterfly (1935) The Broken Coin (1936) Paradise Valley (1936) Gateway to the North (1937) A Street of Memory, a narrated travelogue about Olvera Street in Los Angeles