---
name: "David Geffen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-geffen"
fi1m_id: "david-geffen"
imdb_id: "nm0311691"
tmdb_id: 9020
wikidata_id: "Q115055"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "21 February 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T04:03:31.527614+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."
---

# David Geffen

## Identity

David Geffen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-geffen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-geffen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0311691
- **TMDB ID:** 9020
- **Wikidata ID:** Q115055
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Geffen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115055, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0311691/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9020

Producer. Born 21 February 1943 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 21 February 1943, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1986–1994
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 producing, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 76 (1), 1990s 79 (1), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Geffen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115055, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0311691/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9020

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Interview with the Vampire*](https://film.one/film/interview-with-the-vampire.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

David Geffen is an American film producer, record executive and media proprietor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 21 February 1943, he began his career in the entertainment industry as a talent agent before moving into music and film production.

In 1982 he founded the Geffen Film Company. Among its productions are *Personal Best* (1982), *Little Shop of Horrors* (1986) and *Interview with the Vampire* (1994). In 1994 he co-founded DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, cnn.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Produced (2) — the average rests on these

- *Interview with the Vampire* (1994), Fi1m 79, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/interview-with-the-vampire.md)
- *Little Shop of Horrors* (1986), Fi1m 76, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/little-shop-of-horrors.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Lorne* (2026), Fi1m 58, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/lorne.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Interview with the Vampire* (1994), Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/interview-with-the-vampire.md)
- *Beetlejuice* (1989), series, Creator
- *Little Shop of Horrors* (1986), Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/little-shop-of-horrors.md)
- *Personal Best* (1982), Executive Producer
- *Journey Through the Past* (1972), Executive Producer
- *The Explosive Generation* (1961), as (uncredited extra)

## Gallery

- ![From left, Bill Graham, Lou Adler, Chuck Landis, Elliot Roberts and David Geffen standing under the Roxy nightclub marquee in Los Angeles (1973)](https://film.one/media/person/84917/gallery-dd6aa0110de5.jpg) From left, Bill Graham, Lou Adler, Chuck Landis, Elliot Roberts and David Geffen standing under the Roxy nightclub marquee in Los Angeles (1973) — Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Bill_Graham%2C_Lou_Adler%2C_Chuck_Landis%2C_Elliot_Roberts_and_David_Geffen.jpg/1280px-Bill_Graham%2C_Lou_Adler%2C_Chuck_Landis%2C_Elliot_Roberts_and_David_Geffen.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![David Geffen](https://film.one/media/person/84917/gallery-7b2c5cb85db6.jpg) David Geffen — Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/David_Geffen.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2010: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (won)
- Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program 1990: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program (won), for *Beetlejuice*

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

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