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name: "Franz Seitz Jr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/franz-seitz-junior"
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imdb_id: "nm0782704"
tmdb_id: 52587
wikidata_id: "Q91077"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "22 October 1921"
died: "19 January 2006"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T00:42:02.053024+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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# Franz Seitz Jr.

## Identity

Franz Seitz Jr.

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/franz-seitz-junior
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** franz-seitz-junior
- **IMDb ID:** nm0782704
- **TMDB ID:** 52587
- **Wikidata ID:** Q91077
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Seitz_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91077, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782704/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52587

Producer. Born 22 October 1921 in Munich, Germany. Died 19 January 2006.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 22 October 1921, Munich, Germany
- **Died:** 19 January 2006
- **Also known as:** Franz Seitz Junior, Franz Seitz, Georg Laforet
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Seitz_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91077, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0782704/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/52587

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Tin Drum*](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md) (78)

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## Biography

Franz Seitz Jr. was a German film producer and screenwriter. He was born on 22 October 1921 in Munich, where he died on 19 January 2006. He is also credited as Franz Seitz Junior, Franz Seitz and Georg Laforet.

Seitz produced more than 70 films between 1951 and 2006. He is best known for his work on *The Tin Drum* (1979), for which he served as producer and co-wrote the screenplay with Volker Schlöndorff and Jean-Claude Carrière. He had previously collaborated with Schlöndorff as producer on *Young Törless* (1966).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Tin Drum* (1979), Fi1m 78, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

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

- *Success* (1991), Director, Writer
- *Sukkubus* (1989), Writer
- *Flammenzeichen* (1985), Director
- *Big Mäc* (1985), Producer, Screenplay
- *King Kongs Faust* (1985), as Produzent
- *Doctor Faustus* (1982), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Magic Mountain* (1982), Producer
- *The Tin Drum* (1979), Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md)
- *Die Jugendstreiche des Knaben Karl* (1977), Writer, Producer, Director
- *Unordnung und frühes Leid* (1977), Director
- *Abelard - Die Entmannung* (1977), Writer, Director
- *When Mother Went on Strike* (1974), Writer
- *The Flying Classroom* (1973), Screenplay, Producer
- *The Pedestrian* (1973), Producer, Additional Writing
- *Temptation in the Summer Wind* (1972), Screenplay
- *Lilli - die Braut der Kompanie* (1972), Writer
- *Betragen ungenügend!* (1972), Producer, Writer
- *Willi wird das Kind schon schaukeln* (1972), Screenplay
- *Der Kapitän* (1971), Screenplay, Producer
- *Morgen fällt die Schule aus* (1971), as Man with Hat · Producer, Screenplay
- *Das Glöcklein unterm Himmelbett* (1970), Writer, Producer
- *First Love* (1970), Producer
- *Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne* (1970), Screenplay, Producer
- *Ludwig on the Lookout for a Wife* (1969), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Hurra, die Schule brennt* (1969), Screenplay
- *Pepe, der Paukerschreck* (1969), Producer, Screenplay
- *Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin* (1969), Screenplay
- *Zum Teufel mit der Penne* (1968), Screenplay
- *Van de Velde: The Perfect Marriage* (1968), Screenplay, Producer
- *Zur Hölle mit den Paukern* (1968), Screenplay, Producer
- *The Sex of Angels* (1968), Screenplay, Producer
- *Wenn Ludwig ins Manöver zieht* (1967), Producer, Writer
- *Der Paukenspieler* (1967), Director
- *Onkel Filser - Allerneueste Lausbubengeschichten* (1966), Producer, Writer
- *Stella* (1966), Producer
- *Once a Greek* (1966), Writer
- *Young Törless* (1966), Producer
- *Tante Frieda - Neue Lausbubengeschichten* (1965), Writer, Producer
- *The Blood of the Walsungs* (1965), Writer
- *Lausbubengeschichten* (1964), Writer, Producer
- *Tonio Kröger* (1964), Producer
- *Der verkaufte Großvater* (1962), Producer
- *Mein Schatz ist aus Tirol* (1958), Producer
- *Kleiner Mann - ganz groß* (1957), Writer, Producer
- *Ein Mädchen aus Paris* (1954), Director
- *The Sweetest Fruits* (1954), Producer

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