Mike todd jr biography

Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one Taylor did not divorce. He died in a private plane accident a year after they married. He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format. His year of birth has been reported as , , , and , [ 3 ] but is generally accepted.

It was from this that his name was derived.

Mike todd, elizabeth taylor wedding

The family moved to Chicago, arriving on the day World War I ended. Todd dropped out of high school, and worked as a shoe salesperson and store window decorator. One of his first jobs was as a soda jerk. When the drugstore went out of business, Todd had acquired enough medical knowledge from his work there to be hired at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital as a type of "security guard" to stop visitors from bringing in food that was not on the patient's diet.

Todd began his career in the construction business, where he made, and subsequently lost, a fortune.