---
name: "Erich Pommer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erich-pommer"
fi1m_id: "erich-pommer"
imdb_id: "nm0690143"
tmdb_id: 67
wikidata_id: "Q61441"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "20 July 1889"
died: "8 May 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-14T04:06:26.509750+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."
---

# Erich Pommer

## Identity

Erich Pommer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erich-pommer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erich-pommer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0690143
- **TMDB ID:** 67
- **Wikidata ID:** Q61441
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Pommer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61441, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690143/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67

Producer. Born 20 July 1889 in Hildesheim, Germany. Died 8 May 1966.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 20 July 1889, Hildesheim, Germany
- **Died:** 8 May 1966
- **Active:** 1920–1940
- **Also known as:** Eric Pommer
- **Frequently works with:** [Emil Jannings](https://film.one/person/emil-jannings.md), [Alfred Abel](https://film.one/person/alfred-abel.md), [Carl Mayer](https://film.one/person/carl-mayer.md), [Fritz Lang](https://film.one/person/fritz-lang.md), [F. W. Murnau](https://film.one/person/f-w-murnau.md), [Rudolf Klein-Rogge](https://film.one/person/rudolf-klein-rogge.md), [Thea von Harbou](https://film.one/person/thea-von-harbou.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as producer, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 84 (4), 1930s 81 (1), 1940s 66 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 85 to 76 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 2, Thriller 2, Comedy 1, Horror 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Pommer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61441, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690143/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Last Laugh*](https://film.one/film/the-last-laugh.md) (84), [*The Blue Angel*](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md) (81)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Metropolis*](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md) (87)
- **Apple TV:** [*The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari*](https://film.one/film/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari.md) (87)

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## Biography

Erich Pommer, also credited as Eric Pommer, was a German film producer. He was born on 20 July 1889 in Hildesheim, Germany, and died on 8 May 1966 in Los Angeles.

He entered the film industry with Gaumont in Berlin and Paris, then founded Decla Film in 1915. The company merged into Decla-Bioskop and was later absorbed by UFA. As head of production at these companies from the early 1920s, he oversaw films including *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* (1920), *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922), *The Last Laugh* (1924), *Faust* (1926) and *Metropolis* (1927).

Pommer left UFA in 1926 and worked in Hollywood and Britain, where he produced *Jamaica Inn* (1939). He returned to Germany after the Second World War to help reorganise the film industry.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Dance, Girl, Dance* (1940), Fi1m 66, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/dance-girl-dance.md)
- *The Blue Angel* (1930), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md)
- *Metropolis* (1927), Fi1m 87, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)
- *The Last Laugh* (1924), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-laugh.md)
- *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.md)
- *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* (1920), Fi1m 87, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari.md)

## Complete filmography (99)

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

- *Children, Mother, and the General* (1955), Producer
- *Illusion in Moll* (1952), Producer
- *They Knew What They Wanted* (1940), Producer
- *Dance, Girl, Dance* (1940), Producer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/dance-girl-dance.md)
- *Jamaica Inn* (1939), Producer
- *St. Martin's Lane* (1938), as Additional Writing · Producer
- *Vessel of Wrath* (1938), Director, Producer
- *Fire Over England* (1937), Producer
- *Music in the Air* (1934), Producer
- *Liliom* (1934), Producer
- *A Man Has Been Stolen* (1934), Producer
- *Early to Bed* (1933), Producer
- *The Only Girl* (1933), Producer
- *The Only Girl* (1933), Producer
- *F.P.1 Doesn't Answer* (1932), Producer
- *I by Day, You by Night* (1932), Producer
- *A Blonde Dream* (1932), Producer
- *Happy Ever After* (1932), Producer
- *Quick* (1932), Producer
- *Quick* (1932), Producer
- *A Shot at Dawn* (1932), Producer
- *Tumultes* (1932), Producer
- *Two Hearts Beat as One* (1932), Producer
- *The Tempest* (1932), Producer
- *Congress Dances* (1931), Producer
- *Bombs Over Monte Carlo* (1931), Producer
- *About an investigation* (1931), Producer
- *Inquest* (1931), Producer
- *In the act* (1931), Producer
- *The Man in Search of His Murderer* (1931), Producer
- *Burglars* (1930), Producer
- *The Road to Paradise* (1930), Producer
- *Darling of the Gods* (1930), Producer
- *The Three from the Filling Station* (1930), Producer
- *The Love Waltz* (1930), Producer
- *The Temporary Widow* (1930), Producer
- *The Blue Angel* (1930), Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-blue-angel.md)
- *Alraune* (1930), Producer
- *Liebeswalzer* (1930), Producer
- *The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna* (1929), Producer
- *Asphalt* (1929), Producer
- *Spies* (1928), Producer
- *Hungarian Rhapsody* (1928), Producer
- *Mockery* (1927), Producer
- *Metropolis* (1927), Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)
- *Hotel Imperial* (1927), Producer
- *Faust* (1926), Producer
- *Two Brothers* (1926), Producer
- *Impetuous Youth* (1926), Producer
- *Manon Lescaut* (1926), Producer
- *Tartuffe* (1926), Producer
- *Variety* (1925), Producer
- *The Pleasure Garden* (1925), Producer
- *The Blackguard* (1925), Producer
- *Express Train of Love* (1925), Producer
- *The Tower of Silence* (1925), Producer
- *The Last Laugh* (1924), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-laugh.md)
- *Michael* (1924), Producer
- *Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge* (1924), Producer
- *Die Nibelungen: Siegfried* (1924), Producer
- *The Finances of the Grand Duke* (1924), Producer
- *Decameron Nights* (1924), Producer
- *The Lost Shoe* (1923), Producer
- *The Expulsion* (1923), Producer
- *His Wife, the Unknown* (1923), Producer
- *The Stone Rider* (1923), Producer
- *A Glass of Water* (1923), Producer
- *Phantom* (1922), Producer
- *Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler* (1922), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/dr-mabuse-the-gambler.md)
- *The Death in the Greenstreet* (1921), Producer
- *The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur* (1921), Producer
- *The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi* (1921), Producer
- *The Black Panther* (1921), Producer
- *Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 4. Teil: Die Goldmine von Sar-Khin* (1921), Producer
- *Das Spiel mit dem Feuer* (1921), Producer
- *The Haunted Castle* (1921), Producer
- *Toteninsel* (1921), Producer
- *Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 3. Teil: Der Mann im Dunkel* (1921), Producer
- *The Night of Queen Isabeau* (1920), Producer
- *Die Jagd nach dem Tode - 2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt* (1920), Producer
- *Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire* (1920), Producer
- *The Head of Janus* (1920), Producer
- *The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari* (1920), Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari.md)
- *The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship* (1920), Producer
- *Opfer* (1920), Producer
- *Harakiri* (1919), Producer
- *Die Ehe der Frau Mary* (1919), Producer
- *The Dance of Death* (1919), Producer
- *The Plague in Florence* (1919), Producer
- *The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea* (1919), Producer
- *Master of Love* (1919), Producer
- *Der Weg, der zur Verdammnis führt, 2. Teil - Hyänen der Lust* (1919), Producer
- *Half-Blood* (1919), Producer
- *Das verwunschene Schloß* (1919), Producer
- *Die Sünde* (1918), Producer
- *Die Tochter der Gräfin Stachowska* (1917), Producer
- *Der Klub der Neun* (1917), Producer
- *Dynamit* (1916), Producer
- *Der Todesritt auf dem Riesenrad* (1915), Producer

## Gallery

- ![Erich Pommer auf einer Berliner Gedenktafel in Berlin-Steglitz am Carl-Heinrich-Becker Weg (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/104077/gallery-75df39f70c4a.jpg) Erich Pommer auf einer Berliner Gedenktafel in Berlin-Steglitz am Carl-Heinrich-Becker Weg (2022) — Lukas Beck, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Erich_Pommer.jpg/1280px-Erich_Pommer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Erich Pommer](https://film.one/media/person/104077/gallery-fde16064f049.jpg) Erich Pommer — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Erich_Pommer_%281889%E2%80%931966%29_~1925.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Gedenktafel am Elternhaus von Erich Pommer in Hildesheim (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/104077/gallery-c86e7ff187f7.jpg) Gedenktafel am Elternhaus von Erich Pommer in Hildesheim (2009) — Björn Bornhöft, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Erich_Pommer_Elternhaus_Tafel.JPG/1280px-Erich_Pommer_Elternhaus_Tafel.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Berlin memorial plaque, Erich Pommer, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 16-18, Berlin-Steglitz, Germany (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/104077/gallery-8ffa07613ea5.jpg) Berlin memorial plaque, Erich Pommer, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 16-18, Berlin-Steglitz, Germany (2008) — OTFW, Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Gedenktafel_Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg_16-18_%28Stegl%29_Erich_Pommer.jpg/1280px-Gedenktafel_Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg_16-18_%28Stegl%29_Erich_Pommer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![UFA-Produktionsleiter Erich Pommer mit Carl Zuckmayer (Mitte) und Emil Jannings (1929)](https://film.one/media/person/104077/gallery-50a8117572ac.jpg) UFA-Produktionsleiter Erich Pommer mit Carl Zuckmayer (Mitte) und Emil Jannings (1929) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/PommerZuckmayerJannings1929.jpg/1280px-PommerZuckmayerJannings1929.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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