List of film producers
Following is a list of notable film producers, some of whom have also worked in other media.
(list is sorted alphabetically by surname)
A–M[]
- J. J. Abrams – Lost, Cloverfield, Alias, Mission: Impossible III, Star Trek, Fringe
- James Amuta – Your Excellency, Oloture
- Darla K. Anderson – A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Toy Story 3, Coco
- Judd Apatow – The Cable Guy, Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Freaks and Geeks
- Avi Arad – Spider-Man, X-Men, Blade
- Bonnie Arnold – Toy Story, Tarzan, Over the Hedge, How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
- Syed Aman Bachchan – Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu, Edegarike, Thamassu, Aa Dinagalu
- Lawrence Bender – Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, An Inconvenient Truth, Reservoir Dogs, Good Will Hunting
- Pandro S. Berman – The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Armyan Bernstein – Air Force One, The Hurricane, Children of Men, Bring It On
- Charles Brackett – The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, The King and I
- Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli – James Bond film series
- Mel Brooks – The Elephant Man, The Fly, Frances, 84 Charing Cross Road, Young Frankenstein
- Jerry Bruckheimer – Top Gun, Crimson Tide, The Rock, Con Air, National Treasure, Pirates of the Caribbean film series
- Sandra Bullock – Hope Floats, Gun Shy, Miss Congeniality, Murder By Numbers, Two Weeks Notice, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, All About Steve, George Lopez (TV series)
- Tim Burton – The Nightmare Before Christmas, Cabin Boy, James and the Giant Peach, 9
- Frank Capra – It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, State of the Union
- Jim Carrey – Bruce Almighty, Fun with Dick and Jane
- Charlie Chaplin – City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator, Limelight
- – Kung Fu Panda, Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda 3
- Ethan Coen – Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, No Country for Old Men
- Harry Cohn – It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, Lost Horizon
- Tom Cruise – Mission: Impossible, Vanilla Sky, Narc, The Others, Minority Report, War Of The Worlds, The Last Samurai
- Cecil B. DeMille – Samson and Delilah, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Ten Commandments, The Buccaneer
- Dean Devlin – Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot
- Walt Disney – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Mary Poppins
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura – Constantine, Shooter, Transformers
- Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator, The 11th Hour
- Kirk Douglas – Paths of Glory, Spartacus
- Michael Douglas – Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
- Robert Evans – Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, The Saint
- Douglas Fairbanks – The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad
- Ted Field – The Amityville Horror, The Last Samurai, Runaway Bride, What Dreams May Come, Jumanji, Revenge of the Nerds
- Arthur Freed – Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain
- Mel Gibson – Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ
- Brian Grazer – Splash, The Paper, Apollo 13, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, The Cat in the Hat, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Frost/Nixon, Rush, In the Heart of the Sea, Inferno
- D. W. Griffith – The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Abraham Lincoln
- Richard N. Gladstein – Finding Neverland, The Bourne Identity, Pulp Fiction, The Cider House Rules
- Samuel Goldwyn – Ball of Fire, The Best Years of Our Lives, Hans Christian Andersen
- Daniel Grodnik, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Bobby, Powder, Moose
- Paul Haggis – Crash, Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima
- Don Hahn – Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Haunted Mansion, Frankenweenie, Maleficent, Beauty and the Beast (2017 film), Wonder Park
- Tom Hanks – Cast Away, Band of Brothers, Mamma Mia, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Polar Express, Evan Almighty, My Life in Ruins, City of Ember, The Pacific
- David Heyman – Harry Potter film series
- Alfred Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds
- Barbara Holecek – Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt, Hunters of the Seal, Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial
- Ron Howard – The Alamo, Curious George, Restless, Cowboys & Aliens, The Good Lie, In the Heart of the Sea
- Howard Hughes – Hell's Angels, Scarface, The Outlaw
- Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings film series, King Kong, District 9, The Hobbit film series
- – Toy Story 2
- Joseph Janni – film producer of over fifty films, including Far from the Madding Crowd, A Kind of Loving, Romeo and Juliet, and Yanks. Worked closely with John Schlesinger.
- Howard Kazanjian – Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi
- Jeffrey Katzenberg – The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Shark Tale
- Buster Keaton – Sherlock Jr., The General, Speak Easily
- Alexander Korda – Things to Come, The Thief of Bagdad, The Third Man
- Stanley Kubrick – Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut
- Gary Kurtz – Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Crystal
- Carl Laemmle – The Phantom of the Opera, The Man Who Laughs
- Carl Laemmle Jr. – Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein
- Jesse L. Lasky – Sergeant York, The Adventures of Mark Twain
- Mervyn LeRoy – The Wizard of Oz, The Bad Seed
- Val Lewton – Cat People, The Body Snatcher
- Harold Lloyd – Speedy, Movie Crazy, Professor Beware
- Ernst Lubitsch – The Merry Widow, Ninotchka, Heaven Can Wait
- George Lucas – Star Wars, Indiana Jones
- Branko Lustig – Schindler's List, Gladiator
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Christmas Carol, The Philadelphia Story
- Frank Marshall – The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Back to the Future trilogy, Jurassic Park, The Sixth Sense
- Louis B. Mayer – Greed, Ben-Hur, I Take This Woman
- Rick McCallum – Star Wars
- Chris Meledandri – Despicable Me, Hop, The Lorax, Despicable Me 2, Minions, The Secret Life of Pets, Sing, Despicable Me 3, The Grinch, The Secret Life of Pets 2
- Arnon Milchan – Pretty Woman, Natural Born Killers, L.A. Confidential, City of Angels, Entrapment, Fight Club, Unfaithful, Daredevil, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Fountain, What Happens in Vegas
- Patrick Millsaps – I'll See You in My Dreams
- Walter Mirisch – West Side Story, The Sound of Music
- Hayao Miyazaki – Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Whisper of the Heart
- Scott Mosier – Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy
N–Z[]
- – DCI Banks, The Game, EastEnders
- Geoffrey Notkin – Radio Free Albemuth, Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously, Revenge of Zoe, First to the Moon
- Michael Nozik – Syriana, The Motorcycle Diaries, Quiz Show, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Mississippi Masala
- Christine Oestreicher – A Shocking Accident (Oscar winner)
- Alan J. Pakula – To Kill a Mockingbird, Klute, Starting Over
- Nate Parker – Birth Of A Nation (2016),Eden,Portion[1]
- Tyler Perry – Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea's Family Reunion
- Julia Phillips – The Sting, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Erich Pommer – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, The Blue Angel
- Carlo Ponti – Doctor Zhivago, War and Peace, Attila
- Norman Priggen – The Servant, Accident, The Go-Between, The Assassination of Trotsky
- Ramu – AK 47, Lockup Death, Kalasipalya, Ganga
- Brett Ratner – Double Take, Paid in Full, Santa's Slay, Code Name: The Cleaner, Horrible Bosses, Mirror Mirror, Rules Don't Apply, Georgetown
- Jonas Rivera – , Inside Out, Toy Story 4
- Hal Roach – Sons of the Desert
- Robert Rodriguez – El Mariachi, Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, Grindhouse
- Win Rosenfeld – BlacKkKlansman, Candyman, Wendell and Wild
- Albert S. Ruddy – The Godfather, Million Dollar Baby, The Longest Yard
- Scott Rudin – No Country for Old Men, School of Rock, The Royal Tenenbaums, Clueless
- Harry Saltzman – James Bond, Battle of Britain, The Ipcress File
- Adam Sandler – The Waterboy, Big Daddy, Little Nicky, The Animal, Mr. Deeds, Eight Crazy Nights, The Hot Chick, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, The Longest Yard, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Click, Joe Dirt, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
- Joseph M. Schenck – Our Hospitality, The General
- Martin Scorsese – The Grifters, Naked in New York, The Aviator
- David O. Selznick – King Kong, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, The Third Man
- Mack Sennett – Keystone Cops
- Dean Silvers – Flirting with Disaster, Spanking the Monkey, Manny & Lo
- Don Simpson – Beverly Hills Cop, Flashdance, Top Gun
- Mireille Soria – Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Home, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
- Clark Spencer – Lilo & Stitch, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, Winnie the Pooh, Wreck-It Ralph, Zootopia, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Encanto
- Sam Spiegel – The African Queen, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia
- Steven Spielberg – The Goonies, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, Transformers (executive)
- David Sproxton – Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Flushed Away, Arthur Christmas, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Early Man, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
- Ben Stiller – Blades of Glory, Zoolander, The Ruins, Tropic Thunder
- Erich von Stroheim – Blind Husbands, The Wedding March
- Josef von Sternberg – The Docks of New York, The Scarlet Empress
- Gabrielle Tana – Someone Else's America, , On the Ropes, The Moth, The Duchess, Coriolanus, The Invisible Woman, Philomena, Run (short), Dancer (Documentary), Mindhorn, Ideal Home, The White Crow, Stan and Ollie, My Zoe (2018)
- Quentin Tarantino – From Dusk till Dawn, Hostel, Grindhouse
- Irving Thalberg – Freaks, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty
- Walter Wanger – Stagecoach, Joan of Arc, Cleopatra
- Hal B. Wallis – The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, True Grit
- Fran Walsh – The Lord of the Rings, King Kong, The Lovely Bones, Halo
- Aron Warner – Antz, Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After, Wish Dragon
- Jack L. Warner – Yankee Doodle Dandy, Casablanca, My Fair Lady
- Robert Watts – Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, You Only Live Twice
- Harvey Weinstein – Shakespeare in Love, Gangs of New York, Nine, My Week with Marilyn, Tulip Fever
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil
- Ralph Winter – Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, X-Men, Fantastic Four, X2: X-Men United
- Janet Yang – The Joy Luck Club (film), The People vs. Larry Flynt, Dark Matter (film), Zero Effect, Shanghai Calling
- Saul Zaentz – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The English Patient
- Darryl F. Zanuck – The Public Enemy, All About Eve, The Longest Day
- Robert Zemeckis – The Frighteners, Matchstick Men, Monster House
- Warren Zide – American Pie franchise, Final Destination franchise, Cats & Dogs, The Big Hit, High School
- Adolph Zukor – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Shanghai Express, Souls at Sea
See also[]
- Film director
- Filmmaking
- Lists of film topics
- List of television producers
- Producers Guild of America
References[]
- The Producer's Business Handbook by John J. Lee, Jr., Focal Press (2000)
- From Reel to Deal by Dov S-S Simens, Warner Books (2003)
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