---
name: "Robert Walak"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-walak"
fi1m_id: "robert-walak"
imdb_id: "nm2550931"
tmdb_id: 1570003
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T17:33:37.704884+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."
---

# Robert Walak

## Identity

Robert Walak

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-walak
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-walak
- **IMDb ID:** nm2550931
- **TMDB ID:** 1570003
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2550931/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1570003

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2011–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 73 (3), 2020s 52 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 65 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $8m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2550931/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1570003

## Biography

Robert Walak is a film producer and executive. He has served as President of Focus Features and as Co-Managing Director at Universal Pictures International Productions, where he oversaw international productions, acquisitions and local-language content. Earlier roles include Managing Director and President of Production and Acquisitions at The Weinstein Company, and Senior Vice President of Production and Acquisitions at Alliance Films/Momentum Pictures.

Walak began his career in business development at Endemol and as a producer at MTV Europe. He graduated from the University of Amsterdam. His producing credits include *Lesbian Vampire Killers* (2009), *Shame* (2011), *How I Live Now* (2013), *Calvary* (2014), *Woman in Gold* (2015), *Outside the Wire* (2021), *Foe* (2023), *The American* (2023) and *The Penguin Lessons* (2024). He was producer on *Sacrifice* (2025). He is head of film and television at Iconoclast.

*Sources: imdb.com, thewrap.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Sacrifice* (2026), Fi1m 52, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/sacrifice.md)
- *War and Peace* (2016), Fi1m 65, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/war-and-peace.md)
- *Calvary* (2014), Fi1m 81, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/calvary.md)
- *Shame* (2011), Fi1m 74, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/shame.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Sacrifice* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/sacrifice.md)
- *The Penguin Lessons* (2025), Producer
- *The American* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Foe* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Outside the Wire* (2021), Executive Producer
- *War and Peace* (2016), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/war-and-peace.md)
- *Woman in Gold* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Calvary* (2014), Executive Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/calvary.md)
- *How I Live Now* (2013), Executive Producer
- *uwantme2killhim?* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Shame* (2011), Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/shame.md)
- *Lesbian Vampire Killers* (2009), Producer
- *I Am a Monster*, Producer

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