Erich Pommer
Production
Born July 20, 1889 · Hildesheim, Germany
Died May 8, 1966
Also known as Eric Pommer
Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Filmography22 titles
Metropolis
Faust
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Last Laugh
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
St. Martin's Lane
The Blue Angel
Asphalt
Spies
Tartuffe
Vessel of Wrath
Phantom
F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
The Haunted Castle
Dance, Girl, Dance
Michael
Fire Over England
Jamaica Inn
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
The Pleasure Garden