Jack Wrather(1918-1984)

Producer
Director

Oil millionaire who bought the rights to "The Lone Ranger". Also produced "Lassie and "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon". He built the Disneyland Hotel, founded Los Angeles' PBS station KCET and turned the Queen Mary and Howard Hughes' experimental airplane, "The Spruce Goose", into tourist attractions in Long Beach, California. The Spruce Goose was later moved to Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.

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Known for

Lassie

6.5

TV Series

Producer

High Tide

6.5

Producer

1947

The Guilty

6.2

Producer

1947

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

4.9

Producer

1981

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Producer

The Legend of the Lone Ranger
4.9
- producer
- 1981
The Magic of Lassie
5.5
- executive producer (uncredited)
- 1978
Lassie
6.5
TV Series
- executive producer
- producer
- 1956–1973
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
6.4
- executive producer (uncredited)
- 1958
The Lone Ranger
7.7
TV Series
- executive producer
- 1956–1957
The Lone Ranger
6.5
- producer
- 1956
The Lone Ranger Story
8.0
- producer
- 1955
Boss Lady
6.8
TV Series
- producer
- 1952
Guilty of Treason
6.1
- producer
- 1950
Strike It Rich
6.8
- producer
- 1948
Perilous Waters
5.8
- producer
- 1948
High Tide
6.5
- producer
- 1947
The Guilty
6.2
- producer
- 1947

Director

Personal details

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Alternative name
- A Jack Wrather Productiopn
Born
- May 24, 1918
- Amarillo, Texas, USA
Died
- November 12, 1984
- Los Angeles, California, USA(cancer)
Spouses
Children
- Linda Wrather
Other works
Unsold pilot: Produced a pilot for an adventure series set in Roman times and photographed in Europe called, "Centurion."

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Trivia
Walt Disney personally convinced Wrather to build the Disneyland Hotel when Disney could not raise the money to do so--his credit was all tied up in building the theme park itself. After the phenomenal success of Disneyland, Disney attempted to buy the hotel, but Wrather steadfastly refused to sell. Long after Wrather's and Walt Disney's death, the Disney Company bought the Wrather Corporation and, with it, acquired the Disneyland Hotel, plus the Queen Mary AND Spruce Goose attractions in Long Beach, CA, as well as the rights to The Lone Ranger (1949) TV series, among other properties.