---
name: "David Permut"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-permut"
fi1m_id: "david-permut"
imdb_id: "nm0674303"
tmdb_id: 11405
wikidata_id: "Q5238526"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "23 March 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-19T04:27:17.442334+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."
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# David Permut

## Identity

David Permut

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-permut
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-permut
- **IMDb ID:** nm0674303
- **TMDB ID:** 11405
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5238526
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Permut, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5238526, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0674303/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11405

Producer. Born 23 March 1954 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 23 March 1954, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1987–present
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as producer, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 55 (1), 1990s 84 (1), 2010s 77 (1), 2020s 72 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 70 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 2, Comedy 2, Crime 2, History 2, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $543m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Permut, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5238526, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0674303/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11405

## Coming up

- *Being Heumann* (2026-11-06), Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/being-heumann.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Dragnet*](https://film.one/film/dragnet.md) (55)

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

## Biography

David Permut is an American film producer. Born on 23 March 1954 in New York City, he began his career in the 1970s and has produced or executive produced dozens of films and television projects over more than four decades.

His early credits include the 1975 film *Give 'em Hell, Harry!*, followed by studio comedies such as *Dragnet* (1987) and *Blind Date* (1987), and the action film *Face/Off* (1997). Later productions encompass *Charlie Bartlett* (2008), *Youth in Revolt* (2009), *Hacksaw Ridge* (2016) and *The Polka King* (2017). He also produced *The Invite* (2026), directed by Olivia Wilde.

Permut has received Academy Award and Emmy Award nominations, and won a Grammy Award for *Give 'em Hell, Harry!*.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Invite* (2026), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-invite.md)
- *Rustin* (2023), Fi1m 68, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/rustin.md)
- *Hacksaw Ridge* (2016), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hacksaw-ridge.md)
- *Face/Off* (1997), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/face-off.md)
- *Dragnet* (1987), Fi1m 55, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/dragnet.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

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

- *Being Heumann* (2026), Producer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/being-heumann.md)
- *The Invite* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-invite.md)
- *Twinless* (2025), Producer
- *Lawmen: Bass Reeves* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Rustin* (2023), Executive Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/rustin.md)
- *Visible: Out on Television* (2020), series, Producer
- *The Fabulous Allan Carr* (2017), Executive Producer
- *The Polka King* (2017), Producer
- *Hacksaw Ridge* (2016), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/hacksaw-ridge.md)
- *The Color of Rain* (2014), Executive Producer
- *Match* (2014), Producer
- *Struck by Lightning* (2013), Producer
- *Youth in Revolt* (2009), Producer
- *Prayers for Bobby* (2009), Executive Producer
- *Local Color* (2008), Producer
- *My Mom's New Boyfriend* (2008), Executive Producer
- *Charlie Bartlett* (2008), Producer
- *Farce of the Penguins* (2006), Producer
- *Eddie Griffin: DysFunktional Family* (2003), Producer
- *Double Take* (2001), Producer
- *Face/Off* (1997), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/face-off.md)
- *Eddie* (1996), Producer
- *Trapped in Paradise* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Surviving the Game* (1994), Producer
- *Money for Nothing* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Three of Hearts* (1993), Executive Producer
- *The Temp* (1993), Producer
- *Consenting Adults* (1992), Producer
- *Captain Ron* (1992), Producer
- *Breaking the Silence* (1992), Executive Producer
- *29th Street* (1991), Producer
- *The Marrying Man* (1991), Producer
- *Mistress* (1987), Supervising Producer
- *Dragnet* (1987), Producer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/dragnet.md)
- *Blind Date* (1987), Co-Executive Producer
- *His Mistress* (1984), Producer
- *Fighting Back* (1982), Executive Producer, Producer
- *Give 'em Hell, Harry!* (1975), Producer
- *The Rabbit Garden*, Producer
- *Lottery*, Producer
- *Untitled JJ Velazquez Project*, Producer
- *Face/Off 2*, Executive Producer
- *Ragamuffin*, Producer
- *Wildfire*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2017: Best Picture (nominated), for *Hacksaw Ridge*

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

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