Ananda Max Salomon (January 15, 1891 â 5 July 1944) was an American film director and studio manager at Teddington Studios.
Salomon was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and moved to San Francisco when he was one year old. His father, Max Salomon, was born in Illinois and his mother, Wilhelmina "Minna" Welte Salomon, was German. He was a cousin of Jack L. Warner's first wife Irma Solomons (1916âÂÂ1935), and became Warner's first employee, and eventually head of Warner's British operation.
He was killed in a V-1 flying bomb attack at Warner Bros. Studios in Teddington, Staines, while recording the sound of the V-1s.
Salomon was cremated and his ashes returned to San Francisco. He was survived by his wife, Joan Denise Salomon.