Mike Gore (theater owner)

{{Short description|American movie theater owner}}

File:Louis B Mayer Office Visitors - Apr 1920 EH.jpg's office in 1920, Mike Gore is second from the left]]

Mike Gore (July 6, 1878 – August 16, 1953){{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mike-gore|title=Mike Gore profile|accessdate=September 26, 2014|work=LA Times}} was a movie theater owner who received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in Motion pictures.{{cite web|url=http://hwof.com/star/motion-pictures/mike-gore/1852|title=MIKE GORE|publisher=The Hollywood Walk of Fame|accessdate=January 21, 2010}} His star is located in the sidewalk in front of 6315 Hollywood Blvd.

Gore came to the United States from the Russian Empire as a child, settling first in Chicago where he later was in the cigar-manufacturing business. He came to Los Angeles in 1906, when the movie industry was in its early days. He was a co-founder of the West Coast Theatres chain of first-run movie theaters in 1920.{{cite web|url=http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/sol_lesser.htm|title=Hollywood Renegades (excerpt)|accessdate=August 4, 2007}}