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name: "Jerry Wald"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "16 September 1911"
died: "13 July 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T03:07:35.618746+00:00"
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# Jerry Wald

Producer. Born 16 September 1911 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Died 13 July 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 16 September 1911, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 13 July 1962
- **Active:** 1945–1957
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 80 (2), 1950s 64 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $6m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Wald, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957347, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907003/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29098

## Biography

Jerry Wald (1911–1962) was an American screenwriter and film producer. Born Jerome Irving Wald in Brooklyn, New York, he began his career as a radio columnist before moving to Hollywood, where he wrote scripts for Warner Bros. and was promoted to producer in the early 1940s.

At Warner Bros. he produced a series of successful films across genres, including *Mildred Pierce* (1945), *Key Largo* (1948), *Johnny Belinda* (1948) and *Dark Passage* (1947). He received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1949 and four Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. Later he formed independent production companies, working at RKO, Columbia and 20th Century Fox on titles such as *An Affair to Remember* (1957), *Peyton Place* (1957) and *The Long, Hot Summer* (1958).

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Peyton Place* (1957), Fi1m 64, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/peyton-place.md)
- *Johnny Belinda* (1948), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-belinda.md)
- *Mildred Pierce* (1945), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/mildred-pierce-1945.md)

## Complete filmography (101)

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

- *The Stripper* (1963), Producer
- *Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man* (1962), Producer
- *Wild in the Country* (1961), Producer
- *Return to Peyton Place* (1961), Producer
- *Let's Make Love* (1960), Producer
- *The Story on Page One* (1959), Producer
- *Beloved Infidel* (1959), Producer
- *The Best of Everything* (1959), Producer
- *The Sound and the Fury* (1959), Producer
- *Mardi Gras* (1958), Producer
- *The Long, Hot Summer* (1958), Producer
- *Peyton Place* (1957), Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/peyton-place.md)
- *Kiss Them for Me* (1957), Producer
- *No Down Payment* (1957), Producer
- *An Affair to Remember* (1957), Producer
- *The Harder They Fall* (1956), Executive Producer
- *The Eddy Duchin Story* (1956), Producer
- *Queen Bee* (1955), Producer
- *Miss Sadie Thompson* (1953), Producer
- *The Oscars* (1953), series, Producer
- *The Lusty Men* (1952), Writer, Producer
- *Clash by Night* (1952), Producer
- *Macao* (1952), Production Supervisor
- *Two Tickets to Broadway* (1951), Producer
- *The Blue Veil* (1951), Producer
- *Behave Yourself!* (1951), Producer
- *Storm Warning* (1951), Producer
- *The Breaking Point* (1950), Producer
- *The Glass Menagerie* (1950), Producer
- *Caged* (1950), Producer
- *The Damned Don't Cry* (1950), Producer
- *Perfect Strangers* (1950), Producer
- *Young Man with a Horn* (1950), Producer
- *The Inspector General* (1949), Producer
- *Always Leave Them Laughing* (1949), Producer
- *Task Force* (1949), Producer
- *Flamingo Road* (1949), Producer
- *John Loves Mary* (1949), Producer
- *One Sunday Afternoon* (1948), Producer
- *Adventures of Don Juan* (1948), Producer
- *To the Victor* (1948), Producer
- *Johnny Belinda* (1948), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-belinda.md)
- *Key Largo* (1948), Producer
- *Dark Passage* (1947), Producer
- *The Unfaithful* (1947), Producer
- *Little Miss Broadway* (1947), as Jerry Wald
- *Possessed* (1947), Producer
- *Humoresque* (1947), Producer
- *Mildred Pierce* (1945), Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mildred-pierce-1945.md)
- *Pride of the Marines* (1945), Producer
- *Objective, Burma!* (1945), Producer
- *In Our Time* (1944), Producer
- *Destination Tokyo* (1943), Producer
- *Background to Danger* (1943), Producer
- *Action in the North Atlantic* (1943), Producer
- *The Hard Way* (1943), Story, Producer
- *George Washington Slept Here* (1942), Producer
- *Across the Pacific* (1942), Producer
- *Juke Girl* (1942), Associate Producer
- *Larceny, Inc.* (1942), Producer
- *All Through the Night* (1942), Associate Producer
- *The Man Who Came to Dinner* (1941), Associate Producer
- *Navy Blues* (1941), Screenplay, Associate Producer
- *Manpower* (1941), Screenplay
- *Out of the Fog* (1941), Screenplay
- *Million Dollar Baby* (1941), Screenplay
- *They Drive by Night* (1940), Screenplay
- *Brother Orchid* (1940), Writer
- *Torrid Zone* (1940), Screenplay
- *Flight Angels* (1940), Story
- *Three Cheers for the Irish* (1940), Screenplay
- *The Roaring Twenties* (1939), Screenplay
- *On Your Toes* (1939), Screenplay
- *Naughty but Nice* (1939), Screenplay
- *The Kid from Kokomo* (1939), Writer
- *Going Places* (1938), Screenplay
- *Hard to Get* (1938), Screenplay
- *Brother Rat* (1938), Screenplay
- *Garden of the Moon* (1938), Screenplay
- *Gold Diggers in Paris* (1938), Story
- *Hollywood Hotel* (1938), Screenplay, Story
- *Varsity Show* (1937), Screenplay
- *Ready, Willing and Able* (1937), Screenplay
- *Sing Me a Love Song* (1936), Screenplay
- *Sons o' Guns* (1936), Screenplay
- *Stars Over Broadway* (1935), Screenplay
- *I Live for Love* (1935), Screenplay
- *Little Big Shot* (1935), Screenplay
- *Broadway Gondolier* (1935), Additional Dialogue
- *In Caliente* (1935), Screenplay
- *Living on Velvet* (1935), Screenplay
- *Sweet Music* (1935), Story, Screenplay
- *Maybe It's Love* (1935), Screenplay
- *Twenty Million Sweethearts* (1934), Story
- *Rambling 'Round Radio Row #5* (1933), as Jerry Wald - Radio Row Reporter · Director
- *Rambling 'Round Radio Row #7* (1933), Director
- *Rambling 'Round Radio Row #6* (1933), Director, Writer
- *Rambling 'Round Radio Row #3* (1933), Director
- *Rambling Round Radio Row #4* (1932), Director
- *Rambling 'Round Radio Row #2* (1932), Director
- *Rambling 'Round Radio Row #1* (1932), as Jerry Wald · Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1961: Best Picture (nominated), for *Sons and Lovers*
- 1958: Best Picture (nominated), for *Peyton Place*

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

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