---
name: "Everett Riskin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/everett-riskin"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "8 May 1895"
died: "27 March 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T00:30:32.169616+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."
---

# Everett Riskin

Producer. Born 8 May 1895 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 27 March 1982.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 8 May 1895, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 27 March 1982
- **Active:** 1934–1941
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 81 (2), 1940s 77 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Romance 3, Comedy 2, Fantasy 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $6m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Riskin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15808998, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728305/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/977767

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Here Comes Mr. Jordan*](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md) (77)

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## Biography

Everett Riskin (1895–1982) was an American film producer. He worked at Columbia Pictures in the 1930s and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s, producing comedies and other features.

His credits include associate producer on *The Awful Truth* (1937) and *Theodora Goes Wild* (1936), and producer on *Holiday* (1938), *Here Comes Mr. Jordan* (1941), *A Guy Named Joe* (1944) and *The Thin Man Goes Home* (1945). He was the brother of screenwriter Robert Riskin.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Here Comes Mr. Jordan* (1941), Fi1m 77, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md)
- *The Awful Truth* (1937), Fi1m 89, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-awful-truth.md)
- *One Night of Love* (1934), Fi1m 73, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-of-love.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

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

- *Thunder in the East* (1952), Producer
- *Julia Misbehaves* (1948), Producer
- *High Barbaree* (1947), Producer
- *Kismet* (1944), Producer
- *A Guy Named Joe* (1944), Producer
- *Here Comes Mr. Jordan* (1941), Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md)
- *The Amazing Mr. Williams* (1939), Producer
- *I Am the Law* (1938), Producer
- *Holiday* (1938), Producer
- *The Awful Truth* (1937), Associate Producer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/the-awful-truth.md)
- *Let's Get Married* (1937), Producer
- *More Than a Secretary* (1936), Producer
- *Theodora Goes Wild* (1936), Associate Producer
- *Adventure in Manhattan* (1936), Producer
- *If You Could Only Cook* (1935), Associate Producer, Producer
- *A Feather in Her Hat* (1935), Producer
- *I'll Love You Always* (1935), Producer
- *One Night of Love* (1934), Associate Producer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-of-love.md)
- *Black Moon* (1934), Associate Producer

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