Erich Pommer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Erich Pommer

German film producer

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1889

Place of Birth: Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 08-May-1966

Profession: film producer

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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-Bioscop 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 the war.