PRODUCERS from Germany

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary German Producers of all time. This list of famous German Producers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Erich Pommer (1889 - 1966)

With an HPI of 51.15, Erich Pommer is the most famous German Producer.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.

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 such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Die Nibelungen (1924), Michael (1924), Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh (1924), Variety (1925), Tartuffe (1926), Manon Lescaut (1926), Faust (1926), Metropolis (1927) and The Blue Angel (1930). He later worked in American exile before returning to Germany to help rebuild the German film industry after World War II.

2. Oskar Messter (1866 - 1943)

With an HPI of 48.06, Oskar Messter is the 2nd most famous German Producer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Oskar Messter (21 November 1866 – 6 December 1943) was a German inventor and film tycoon in the early years of cinema. His firm Messter Film was one of the dominant German producers before the rise of UFA, into which it was ultimately merged.

3. Rick McCallum (b. 1954)

With an HPI of 37.44, Rick McCallum is the 3rd most famous German Producer.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Richard McCallum (born August 22, 1954) is an American film producer. He is mostly known for his work on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as well as the Star Wars Special Editions and Prequel Trilogy. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with American filmmaker George Lucas, though he was also a long-time producer for British television playwright Dennis Potter, most notably on The Singing Detective and Dreamchild.