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| years_active = 1930s – 1970s | children = Trajan Victor Charles Weaver Sigourney Weaver (b. 1949) }} Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver, Jr.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Weaver, Sylvester (Pat) )〕 (December 21, 1908 – March 15, 2002) was an American radio advertising executive, who became president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. He has been credited with reshaping commercial broadcasting's format and philosophy as radio gave way to television as America's dominant home entertainment. His daughter is actress Sigourney Weaver. ==Personal life== Weaver was born Sylvester Laflin Weaver, Jr. in Los Angeles, California, the son of Eleanor Isabel (née Dixon) and Sylvester Laflin Weaver.〔 He was of Scottish descent (possibly Clan MacFarlane),〔Interview by Sigourney Weaver, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, 8/25/08〕 as well as of Ulster Scots and early New England ancestry.〔(Sigourney Weaver - Weaver's Scottish Ancestry Mix-Up )〕〔He was related to Matthew Laflin who was an American manufacturer of gunpowder, businessman, philanthropist, and an early pioneer of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.〕 He was a great-great-grandson of Charles Laflin, a gunpowder manufacturer, who came to America in 1740 from Ulster, Ireland, settling at Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts.〔Currey, pp. 209-214〕 Charles Laflin and his family were living at Oxford, Massachusetts, when he purchased land in 1749 in the Southern ''(South-)'' village ''(-wick)'' part of the town of Westfield, Massachusetts.〔Cutter, 1186〕 He was the brother of comedian Doodles Weaver. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1930, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He also served in the United States Navy from 1942 through 1945. He married Elizabeth Inglis in 1942. She was born Desiree Mary Lucy Hawkins on July 10, 1913 in Colchester, Essex, England; and died on August 25, 2007 in Santa Barbara, California.〔 〕 She made her screen debut in Borrowed Clothes (1934) as well as having a number of small parts in some of Alfred Hitchcock's early movies. She reached the high point of her career when she co-starred with Bette Davis in William Wyler's movie ''The Letter''. She retired from acting when she married in 1942. The couple were the parents of two children; Trajan Victor Charles and Sigourney (born Susan Alexandra). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sylvester Weaver (executive)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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