Name Martin Segal | ||
Full Name Martin Eli Segal Born July 4, 1916 ( 1916-07-04 ) Vitebsk, Russian Empire Occupation Founder and Chairman Emeritus of The Segal Company (1939 - 2012)
Founding president and CEO of Film Society of Lincoln Center (1968 - 1978)
Chairman of Lincoln Center (1981 - 1986) Spouse(s) Edith (m. 1937–2011) (deceased) Died August 5, 2012, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Similar People Abraham Lincoln, John D Rockefeller III, David Koch, Richard Pena, Wallace Harrison | ||
Martin e segal theatre center present a evening with matias umpierrez
Martin Eli Segal (July 4, 1916 – August 5, 2012) was a Russian Empire-born American businessman who co-founded the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1969 with two other Lincoln Center executives, William F. May and Schuyler G. Chapin. He also served as the Film Society's founding president and CEO until 1978.. Segal was founding chair of the Commission for Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Assistance Center, and the New York International Festival of the Arts.
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Segal was born in Vitebsk, , Russian Empire (now located in present-day Belarus), in 1916 and immigrated to the United States. He is a former Associated Press columnist and founder of human resource and benefits consulting firm, The Segal Group, which he founded in October, 1939. Segal served as the General Chairman of the Night of 100 Stars II on February 17, 1985, the first AIDS benefit held by the Actors' Fund of America.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC), located at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, was renamed for Segal in March 1999. It was founded as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA) in 1979. He died at his Manhattan home in 2012. He was 96.