Oscar Deutsch
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Oscar Deutsch was a British businessman, cinema owner and founder of Odeon Cinemas.
Plaque in Singers Hill Synagogue listing Deutsch as President.
Odeon Cinema, Harrogate, showing the logo used from mid 1990s
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square
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The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square is a prominent cinema building in the West End of London. Built in the Art Deco style and completed in 1937, the building has been continually altered in response to de
Oscar Deutsch
…interchangeably with "cinema" in some parts of the UK until after the Second World War. By 1937 there were 250 Odeons, including the flagship cinema in Leicester Square, London, making Odeon one of the three major circuits in the UK. Odeon cinemas were considered more comfortable and respectable for middle-class filmgoers…
Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in 2012
Black polished granite facade