Cyril Nigg was the head of Bell Brand Snack Foods. He was known as a major philanthropist for his alma mater UCLA.

Nigg was born in Mankato, Minnesota. He moved to Los Angeles, CA with his family as a teenager and graduated from UCLA in 1927. ^[0]He was the President of the campus Newman Club, a Catholic

Nigg was a member of the UC Board of Regents in the mid-1950s in his capacity as president of the UCLA Alumni Assn. He strongly opposed university participation in the Pacific Coast Conference (now the Pac 10) in 1957 in a dispute over whether smaller schools could discipline the much larger UCLA and USC. More significantly, Nigg was a major champion of the UCLA Medical Center. ^[0]

After working for U.S.

Gypsum and the Kellogg Co., Nigg owned and operated potato chip manufacturer Bell Brand Foods for 25 years.

He also had cattle ranching interests in Nevada.

Nigg was widowed by his wife of 60 years, Edith Witkowski, and his second wife, Dorothy Lieb Von der Ahe.

He is survived by his wife Josephine Wayne, an actress who was the first wife of John Wayne. ^[0]