Barney Dubinsky

Barney Dubinsky was one of the three brothers who bought the Regent Theatre in Kansas City in 1920 after touring the Midwest with the family tent show. He worked in the circuit through its expansion across Missouri and Kansas during the 1920s and early 1930s, and left the company in 1936 after being injured in a car accident.

Barney Dubinsky was a partner with his brothers Maurice and Edward in the 1920 purchase of the Regent Theatre in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, the start of the circuit that became AMC. The brothers had been travelling the Midwest performing melodramas and tent shows before they settled into permanent exhibition, and the chain they built reached about 40 theatres in Missouri and Kansas by 1932, mostly small houses in towns the larger studio owned chains did not serve. Barney left the business in 1936 after being injured in a car accident, seven years after Maurice had died, leaving Edward to run the circuit alone until his own death in 1960. The family kept control until 2004, when Apollo Management and J.P. Morgan Partners took the company private, which makes the partnership the three brothers formed in 1920 the foundation of more than eight decades of family ownership. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).