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Sam Spiegel (1901-1985)

Alias:
S.P. Eagle

Birthplace:
Jaroslau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Jaroslaw, Podkarpackie, Poland]

Born:
November 11, 1901

Died:
December 31, 1985

Biography from TheMovieDB

Born in Germany he went to America some time before the second World War and spent a year in Hollywood reading foreign scripts after which he returned to Berlin where he set up his own company to organise the remaking of foreign films into German language versions. One he handled was 'All Quiet on the Western Front', an anti war film that became a kind of personal crusade for him. On the opening night the Nazi's, then in power, put a bomb in the cinema. When the Nazis came into power he left Germany and divided his time between Britain, France and America. He changed his name to the more international sounding S.P. Eagle but changed it back when with 'On the Waterfront' he realised he'd made a film to which any man would be proud to put his name.

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Film Production

Co-Producer:
1936  The Invader

Executive Producer:
1936  The Invader
1968  The Swimmer

Producer:
1933  The Oil Sharks
1936  The Invader
1942  Tales of Manhattan
1946  The Stranger
1949  We Were Strangers
1951  The Prowler
1951  When I Grow Up
1952  The African Queen
1953  Melba
1954  On the Waterfront
1957  The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957  The Strange One
1959  Suddenly, Last Summer
1962  Lawrence of Arabia
1966  The Chase
1967  The Happening
1967  The Night of the Generals
1968  The Swimmer
1971  Nicholas and Alexandra
1976  The Last Tycoon
1983  Betrayal

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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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