---
name: "Arthur Cohn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/arthur-cohn"
fi1m_id: "arthur-cohn"
imdb_id: "nm0004453"
tmdb_id: 10032
wikidata_id: "Q124474"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "4 February 1927"
died: "12 December 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T17:10:13.473543+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Arthur Cohn

## Identity

Arthur Cohn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/arthur-cohn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** arthur-cohn
- **IMDb ID:** nm0004453
- **TMDB ID:** 10032
- **Wikidata ID:** Q124474
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cohn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124474, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004453/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10032

Producer. Born 4 February 1927 in Basel, Switzerland. Died 12 December 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 4 February 1927, Basel, Switzerland
- **Died:** 12 December 2025
- **Active:** 1970–1998
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscars (2 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 78 (1), 1990s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cohn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124474, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004453/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10032

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Garden of the Finzi-Continis*](https://film.one/film/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis.md) (78)

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## Biography

Arthur Cohn (4 February 1927 – 12 December 2025) was a Swiss film producer. Born in Basel to a Jewish family, he began his career as a journalist and reporter for Swiss Radio before moving into film production in the early 1960s.

Cohn produced six Academy Award-winning films, three for Best Foreign Language Film and three for Best Documentary Feature. His credits include *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970, directed by Vittorio De Sica), *Central Station* (1998, directed by Walter Salles) and *One Day in September* (1999). He also produced *The Chorus* (2004) and *Behind the Sun* (2001). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992 and other lifetime achievement honours.

*Sources: nytimes.com, en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Central Station* (1998), Fi1m 85, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/central-station.md)
- *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Etruscan Smile* (2018), Producer
- *The Yellow Handkerchief* (2009), Producer
- *The Children of Huang Shi* (2008), Producer
- *The Chorus* (2004), Producer
- *Behind the Sun* (2001), Producer
- *One Day in September* (1999), Producer
- *Children of the Night* (1999), Producer
- *Central Station* (1998), Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/central-station.md)
- *White Lies* (1997), Producer
- *Two Bits* (1995), Producer
- *November Days* (1991), Producer
- *American Dream* (1990), Producer
- *Love on the Ground* (1984), Producer
- *Dangerous Moves* (1984), Producer
- *The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945* (1981), Producer
- *Adoption* (1979), Producer
- *Black and White in Color* (1976), Producer
- *The Final Solution* (1975), Producer
- *A Brief Vacation* (1973), Producer
- *We'll Call Him Andrea* (1972), Producer
- *The Garden of the Finzi-Continis* (1970), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis.md)
- *Sunflower* (1970), Producer
- *A Place for Lovers* (1968), Producer
- *Woman Times Seven* (1967), Producer
- *Mit Karl May im Orient* (1963), series, Producer
- *Sky Above and Mud Beneath* (1961), Producer
- *Red Skies of Montana* (1952), Story

## Gallery

- ![Arthur Cohn](https://film.one/media/person/87937/gallery-e74e828e0e52.jpg) Arthur Cohn — CineTruth, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/AC3_high_res.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Film producer Arthur Cohn (2006)](https://film.one/media/person/87937/gallery-cb365981d398.jpg) Film producer Arthur Cohn (2006) — Patrik Tschudin, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Arthur_Cohn.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Postcard to Cohn, Morges, 5.8.1918. Writer: Gaston Levaillant, Steinengraben 12, Basel; typed red and black, black ink. Contents: fixing of wedding date, leave  (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/87937/gallery-4a9e68e31106.jpg) Postcard to Cohn, Morges, 5.8.1918. Writer: Gaston Levaillant, Steinengraben 12, Basel; typed red and black, black ink. Contents: fixing of wedding date, leave  (2023) — LGLou, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Postkarte_an_Arthur_Cohn.jpg/1280px-Postkarte_an_Arthur_Cohn.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Arthur Cohn (center), producer of The Yellow Handkerchief at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/87937/gallery-5fa52fa04ffb.jpg) Arthur Cohn (center), producer of The Yellow Handkerchief at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. (2009) — alanine from Hong Kong, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/%E5%B9%B8%E7%A6%8F%E9%BB%83%E6%89%8B%E7%B5%B9_%283381187510%29.jpg/1280px-%E5%B9%B8%E7%A6%8F%E9%BB%83%E6%89%8B%E7%B5%B9_%283381187510%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 2 won

- 1991: Best Documentary Feature Film (won), for *American Dream*
- 1962: Best Documentary Feature Film (won), for *Sky Above and Mud Beneath*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1993: Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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