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

 * A Chocolate Cowboy (1925)
 * Gasoline Cowboy (1926)
 * Was He Guilty? (1927)
 * Harem Scarem (1927)
 * The Mansion of Mystery (1927
 * The Rustler's End (1928)
 * Flash of the Forest (1928)
 * Heave-Ho, an extant Sid Smith and Teddy Reavis comedy
 * 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)
 * Ragus Yugo-Slavia (1931)
 * Heroes All (1931), reissue with sound of 1920 documentary
 * Two Gun Caballero (1931)
 * Ubangi (1931)
 * Garden Granary (1931)
 * Blonde Captive (1932)
 * Virgins of Bali (1932)
 * The Texan (1932)
 * The Galloping Kid (1932)
 * Love's Memorial, Agra, India (1933)
 * The Seventh Wonder (1933
 * Corruption (1933)
 * The Flaming Signal (1933)
 * The Throne of the Gods (1933)
 * Call of the Coyote (1934)
 * The Woman Who Dared (1933)
 * The Lone Rider (1934)
 * Arizona Cyclone (1934)
 * Port O'Call / City of the Sun (1934)
 * Pals of the Prairie (1934)
 * The Way of the West (1934)
 * Napoleon's Waterloo (1934)
 * Twisted Rails (1934)
 * Wild Waters (1934)
 * Pals of the West (1934)
 * Carrying the Mail (1934)
 * Sundown Trail (1934)
 * After the Storm (1935 film) (1935)
 * 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