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name: "Edmund Grainger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edmund-grainger"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 October 1906"
died: "6 July 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 58
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T21:33:16.975635+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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# Edmund Grainger

Producer. Born 1 October 1906 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 6 July 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 October 1906, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 6 July 1981
- **Active:** 1951–1960
- **Also known as:** Ed Grainger, J. Edmund Grainger
- **Average Fi1m score:** 58, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 60 (1), 1960s 57 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Grainger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3048096, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0334435/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41753

## Biography

Edmund Grainger (1906–1981) was an American film producer. He produced more than sixty films and occasionally worked as an assistant director. During the 1930s he was employed by Universal Pictures and later worked for RKO Radio Pictures during Howard Hughes's ownership of the studio.

Grainger was the son of film executive James D. Grainger. Among his credits are associate producer on *Sands of Iwo Jima* (1949) and producer on *The Racket* (1951), *Flying Leathernecks* (1951), *The Sheepman* (1958), *Never So Few* (1959), *Home from the Hill* (1960) and *Cimarron* (1960). His final credit was producer on *A Matter of Time* (1976).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cimarron* (1960), Fi1m 57, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cimarron.md)
- *The Racket* (1951), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-racket.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

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

- *A Matter of Time* (1976), Producer
- *Cimarron* (1960), Producer — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/cimarron.md)
- *Home from the Hill* (1960), Producer
- *Never So Few* (1959), Producer
- *Green Mansions* (1959), Producer
- *Torpedo Run* (1958), Producer
- *The Sheepman* (1958), Producer
- *Bundle of Joy* (1956), Producer
- *Great Day in the Morning* (1956), Producer
- *The Treasure of Pancho Villa* (1955), Producer
- *The French Line* (1954), Producer
- *Devil's Canyon* (1953), Producer
- *Second Chance* (1953), Executive Producer
- *Split Second* (1953), Producer
- *Blackbeard, the Pirate* (1952), Producer
- *The Racket* (1951), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-racket.md)
- *Flying Leathernecks* (1951), Producer, Screenplay
- *Sands of Iwo Jima* (1950), Associate Producer
- *Wake of the Red Witch* (1948), Associate Producer
- *The Fabulous Texan* (1947), Associate Producer
- *Flying Tigers* (1942), Associate Producer
- *Steel Against the Sky* (1941), Associate Producer
- *Highway West* (1941), Producer
- *Thieves Fall Out* (1941), Associate Producer
- *Flight from Destiny* (1941), Associate Producer
- *The Man Who Talked Too Much* (1940), Associate Producer
- *The House of Fear* (1939), Associate Producer
- *The Road to Reno* (1938), Associate Producer
- *Wives Under Suspicion* (1938), Associate Producer
- *The Devil's Party* (1938), Associate Producer
- *Goodbye Broadway* (1938), Producer
- *The Jury's Secret* (1938), Associate Producer
- *The Road Back* (1937), Producer
- *Let Them Live* (1937), Producer
- *Breezing Home* (1937), Producer
- *The Magnificent Brute* (1936), Associate Producer
- *Love Before Breakfast* (1936), Producer
- *Sutter's Gold* (1936), Producer
- *The Invisible Ray* (1936), Producer
- *The Mystery of Edwin Drood* (1935), Associate Producer
- *Half a Sinner* (1934), Associate Producer
- *Affairs of a Gentleman* (1934), Associate Producer
- *The Golden West* (1932), Associate Producer
- *Bachelor's Affairs* (1932), Producer
- *The Rainbow Trail* (1932), Producer
- *Pleasure Crazed* (1929), Assistant Director
- *The Farmer's Daughter* (1928), Assistant Director

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