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Erich Pommer (1889-1966)

Alias:
Eric Pommer

Birthplace:
Hildesheim, Germany

Born:
July 20, 1889

Died:
May 8, 1966

Biography from TheMovieDB

Erich Pommer (20 July 1889 – 8 May 1966) was a German-born film producer and executive. Pommer was perhaps the most powerful person in the German and European film industries in the 1920s and early 1930s.  As producer, Erich Pommer was involved in the German Expressionist film movement during the silent era. As the head of production at Decla Film, Decla-Bioskop, and, from 1924 to 1926, at UFA, Pommer was responsible for many of the best known movies of the Weimar Republic. He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany to help rebuild the German film industry after World War II.

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Film Production

Additional Writing:
1938  St. Martin's Lane

Director:
1938  St. Martin's Lane
1938  Vessel of Wrath

Producer:
1915  Der Todesritt auf dem Riesenrad
1916  Dynamit
1917  Der Klub der Neun
1917  Die Tochter der Gräfin Stachowska
1919  Das verwunschene Schloß
1919  Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis führt, 2. Teil - Hyänen der Lust
1919  Die Ehe der Frau Mary
1919  Half-Blood
1919  Harakiri
1919  Master of Love
1919  The Dance of Death
1919  The Plague in Florence
1919  The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
1920  Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt
1920  Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
1920  Opfer
1920  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920  The Head of Janus
1920  The Night of Queen Isabeau
1920  The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
1921  Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel
1921  Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 4. Teil: Die Goldmine von Sar-Khin
1921  Playing with fire
1921  The Black Panther
1921  The Death in the Greenstreet
1921  The Haunted Castle
1921  The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
1921  The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
1922  Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922  Phantom
1923  A Glass of Water
1923  His Wife, the Unknown
1923  The Expulsion
1923  The Lost Shoe
1923  The Stone Rider
1924  Decameron Nights
1924  Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
1924  Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
1924  Michael
1924  The Finances of the Grand Duke
1924  The Last Laugh
1925  Express Train of Love
1925  The Blackguard
1925  The Pleasure Garden
1925  The Tower of Silence
1925  Variety
1926  Faust
1926  Impetuous Youth
1926  Manon Lescaut
1926  Tartuffe
1926  Two Brothers
1927  Hotel Imperial
1927  Metropolis
1927  Mockery
1928  Hungarian Rhapsody
1928  Spies
1929  Asphalt
1930  Alraune
1930  Burglars
1930  Darling of the Gods
1930  Love waltz
1930  The Blue Angel
1930  The Love Waltz
1930  The Road to Paradise
1930  The Temporary Widow
1930  The Three from the Filling Station
1931  About an investigation
1931  Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1931  Congress Dances
1931  In the act
1931  Inquest
1931  The Congress Dances
1931  The Man in Search of His Murderer
1932  A Blonde Dream
1932  A Shot at Dawn
1932  F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
1932  Happy Ever After
1932  I by Day, You by Night
1932  Quick
1932  Quick
1932  The Tempest
1932  Tumultes
1932  Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag
1933  Early to Bed
1933  The Only Girl
1933  The Only Girl
1934  A Man Has Been Stolen
1934  Liliom
1934  Music in the Air
1937  Fire Over England
1938  St. Martin's Lane
1938  Vessel of Wrath
1939  Jamaica Inn
1940  Dance, Girl, Dance
1940  They Knew What They Wanted
1955  Children, Mother, and the General
1984  Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis

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