---
name: "Walter Wanger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/walter-wanger"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "11 July 1894"
died: "18 November 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-20T00:17:55.823991+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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# Walter Wanger

Producer. Born 11 July 1894 in San Francisco, California, USA. Died 18 November 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 11 July 1894, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Died:** 18 November 1968
- **Active:** 1939–1963
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 84 (1), 1940s 78 (2), 1960s 60 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 74 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Action 1, History 1, Mystery 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $59m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Wanger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351511, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911137/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7646

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Long Voyage Home*](https://film.one/film/the-long-voyage-home.md) (80)
- **Hulu:** [*Foreign Correspondent*](https://film.one/film/foreign-correspondent.md) (76)

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## Biography

Walter Wanger (1894–1968) was an American film producer. Born in San Francisco, he attended Dartmouth College and served as an aviation pilot in the US Army during the First World War. He began working in the film industry at Paramount Pictures in the early 1920s, later holding production roles at several major studios and forming his own independent company.

Wanger produced or executive-produced numerous films, including *Queen Christina* (1934), *You Only Live Once* (1937), *Stagecoach* (1939), *Foreign Correspondent* (1940), *Scarlet Street* (1945), *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (1956) and *I Want to Live!* (1958). He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1941 to 1945. His final film was *Cleopatra* (1963). He died in New York City.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Cleopatra* (1963), Fi1m 60, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/cleopatra.md)
- *Foreign Correspondent* (1940), Fi1m 76, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/foreign-correspondent.md)
- *The Long Voyage Home* (1940), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-long-voyage-home.md)
- *Stagecoach* (1939), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer, Presenter — [page](https://film.one/film/stagecoach.md)

## Complete filmography (62)

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

- *Cleopatra* (1963), Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/cleopatra.md)
- *I Want to Live!* (1958), Producer
- *Navy Wife* (1956), Producer
- *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* (1956), Producer
- *The Adventures of Hajji Baba* (1954), Producer
- *Riot in Cell Block 11* (1954), Producer
- *Kansas Pacific* (1953), Producer
- *Battle Zone* (1952), Producer
- *The Reckless Moment* (1949), Producer
- *Tulsa* (1949), Producer
- *Joan of Arc* (1948), Producer
- *Tap Roots* (1948), Producer
- *Secret Beyond the Door* (1947), Executive Producer, Presenter
- *The Lost Moment* (1947), Producer
- *Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman* (1947), Producer
- *Canyon Passage* (1946), Producer
- *Scarlet Street* (1945), Executive Producer
- *Salome, Where She Danced* (1945), Producer
- *Gung Ho!* (1943), Producer
- *We've Never Been Licked* (1943), Producer
- *Arabian Nights* (1942), Producer
- *Eagle Squadron* (1942), Producer
- *Sundown* (1941), Producer
- *The Long Voyage Home* (1940), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-long-voyage-home.md)
- *Foreign Correspondent* (1940), Producer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/foreign-correspondent.md)
- *The House Across the Bay* (1940), Producer
- *Slightly Honorable* (1939), Presenter
- *Winter Carnival* (1939), Producer
- *Stagecoach* (1939), Executive Producer, Presenter — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/stagecoach.md)
- *Trade Winds* (1938), Executive Producer
- *Blockade* (1938), Producer
- *Algiers* (1938), Producer
- *I Met My Love Again* (1938), Producer
- *52nd Street* (1937), Producer
- *Stand-In* (1937), Producer
- *History Is Made at Night* (1937), Producer
- *You Only Live Once* (1937), Executive Producer, Presenter
- *Spendthrift* (1936), Producer
- *Palm Springs* (1936), Producer
- *Fatal Lady* (1936), Producer
- *The Case Against Mrs. Ames* (1936), Producer
- *The Moon's Our Home* (1936), Producer
- *Big Brown Eyes* (1936), Producer
- *The Trail of the Lonesome Pine* (1936), Producer
- *Her Master's Voice* (1936), Producer
- *Mary Burns, Fugitive* (1935), Producer
- *Every Night at Eight* (1935), Producer
- *Shanghai* (1935), Producer
- *Smart Girl* (1935), Producer
- *Private Worlds* (1935), Producer
- *The President Vanishes* (1934), Producer
- *Queen Christina* (1934), Producer
- *Going Hollywood* (1933), Producer
- *Another Language* (1933), Associate Producer
- *Gabriel Over the White House* (1933), Producer
- *The Bitter Tea of General Yen* (1932), Producer
- *Washington Merry-Go-Round* (1932), Producer
- *Tarnished Lady* (1931), Producer
- *Roadhouse Nights* (1930), Producer
- *Applause* (1929), Producer
- *The Lady Lies* (1929), Producer
- *The Cocoanuts* (1929), Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1964: Best Picture (nominated), for *Cleopatra*

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1939: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (nominated)

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

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