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name: "William Goetz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-goetz"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 March 1903"
died: "15 August 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
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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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# William Goetz

Producer. Born 24 March 1903 in Philadelphia. Died 15 August 1969.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 March 1903, Philadelphia
- **Died:** 15 August 1969
- **Active:** 1934–1943
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 70 (1), 1940s 74 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, History 1, Romance 1, Western 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goetz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2578974, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324544/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113725

## Biography

William Goetz was an American film producer and studio executive. Born in Philadelphia in 1903, he entered the industry in the 1920s and became an associate producer at Fox Films by 1930. In 1932 he was a co-founder and vice-president of Twentieth Century Pictures with Joseph Schenck and Darryl F. Zanuck; the company merged with Fox in 1935 to form 20th Century-Fox, where Goetz served as vice-president.

Goetz later headed production at Universal-International and formed his own company, William Goetz Productions, in 1953. He produced or served as executive producer on films including *The House of Rothschild* (1934), *Lifeboat* (1944), *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), *Jane Eyre* (1943), *The Man from Laramie* (1955), *Sayonara* (1957) and *Autumn Leaves* (1956). He was married to Edith Mayer, daughter of Louis B. Mayer, and died in Los Angeles in 1969.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ox-bow-incident.md)
- *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), Fi1m 63, Executive In Charge Of Production — [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md)
- *The House of Rothschild* (1934), Fi1m 70, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-house-of-rothschild.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Assault on a Queen* (1966), Producer
- *Cry for Happy* (1961), Producer
- *A Story of David* (1960), Producer
- *Song Without End* (1960), Producer
- *The Mountain Road* (1960), Producer
- *They Came to Cordura* (1959), Producer
- *Me and the Colonel* (1958), Producer
- *Sayonara* (1957), Producer
- *The Brothers Rico* (1957), Producer
- *Autumn Leaves* (1956), Producer
- *The Man from Laramie* (1955), Producer
- *Along Came Jones* (1945), Executive Producer
- *Lifeboat* (1944), Executive Producer
- *Jane Eyre* (1943), Producer
- *The Gang's All Here* (1943), Executive Producer
- *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), Executive In Charge Of Production — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md)
- *Bomber's Moon* (1943), Executive Producer
- *Quiet Please, Murder* (1943), Executive Producer
- *The Ox-Bow Incident* (1943), Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ox-bow-incident.md)
- *Life Begins at Eight-Thirty* (1942), Executive Producer
- *The Undying Monster* (1942), Executive Producer
- *Iceland* (1942), Executive Producer
- *Clive of India* (1935), Associate Producer
- *The Affairs of Cellini* (1934), Associate Producer
- *Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back* (1934), Associate Producer
- *Born to Be Bad* (1934), Associate Producer
- *The House of Rothschild* (1934), Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-house-of-rothschild.md)
- *Blood Money* (1933), Associate Producer
- *Broadway Thru a Keyhole* (1933), Producer
- *No Marriage Ties* (1933), Associate Producer
- *Her Private Life* (1929), Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1958: Best Picture (nominated), for *Sayonara*

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

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