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Charles Pratt (October 2, 1830 – May 4, 1891) was a United States capitalist, businessman and philanthropist.
Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. petroleum industry, and established his kerosene refinery Astral Oil Works in Brooklyn, New York. He then lived with his growing family in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. An advertising slogan was "The holy lamps of Tibet are primed with Astral Oil." He recruited Henry H. Rogers into his business, forming Charles Pratt and Company in 1867. Seven years later, Pratt and Rogers agreed to join John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
An advocate of education, Pratt founded and endowed the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, now a renowned art college. He and his children built country estates in Glen Cove, New York, developments in what became known as the Gold Coast in the 1920s on the North Shore of Long Island. In 1916, Standard Oil had a steamship tanker, first of its class, built at Newport News, Virginia and named it in honor of Pratt after his death.
Charles Pratt was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, one of eleven children. His father, Asa Pratt, was a carpenter. He spent three winters as a student at Wesleyan Academy (now Wilbraham & Monson Academy).
Actors: Karen Allen (actress), Ted Kotcheff (producer), Karen Allen (actress), Michael O'Keefe (actor), Don Carmody (producer), Haley McLane (actress), James Woods (actor), Bill Engvall (actor), Peter Fonda (actor), Brian Henson (actor), Brian Dennehy (actor), Irma P. Hall (actress), Elizabeth Ashley (actress), Ted Kotcheff (director), Bill Conti (composer),
Plot: Young man is sucked into an unnamed religious cult by beautiful girl and gets increasingly under the mind control of the cult leader. After his parents fail in their efforts to talk him out of it, they hire a guy who kidnaps and then de-programs him.
Keywords: 1980s, brainwashing, cult, deprogramming, independent-film, parent, religion, sect, son, teenager