Biography for
Kirk Kerkorian More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

6 June 1917, Fresno, California, USA

Birth Name

Kerkor Kerkorian

Height

5' 11" (1.80 m)

Spouse

Lisa Bonder	(13 August 1998 - 1999) (divorced) 1 child
Jean Maree Hardy	(5 December 1954 - 1983) (divorced) 2 children
Hilda Schmidt	(24 January 1942 - 27 September 1951) (divorced)

Trivia

American financier; billionaire, chairman and major stockholder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation; real estate investor; purchaser of the Las Vegas Strip's Flamingo Hotel; builder of the International Hotel, which opened on July 2, 1969, and was at the time the largest in the world; and founder of Trans International Airlines Corporation. He was also a good friend of Cary Grant.

US-born Kerkorian is the world's richest Armenian, USSR-born Sergei Parajanov is the world's most famous Armenian filmmaker.

During the 1930s, he occasionally worked for forty cents an hour as a laborer at MGM. In 1969, he was so wealthy that he bought the legendary studio.

Personal Quotes

There was a time I was aiming at $100,000. Then I thought I'd have it made if I got a million dollars. Now it isn't the money.