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name: "William Perlberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-perlberg"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "22 October 1900"
died: "31 October 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-20T02:38:27.911248+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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# William Perlberg

Producer. Born 22 October 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 31 October 1968.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 22 October 1900, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 31 October 1968
- **Active:** 1934–1954
- **Frequently works with:** [George Seaton](https://film.one/person/george-seaton.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 73 (1), 1940s 74 (2), 1950s 74 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, Family 1, Music 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $5m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Perlberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1422989, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0674169/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26024

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Miracle on 34th Street*](https://film.one/film/miracle-on-34th-street.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

William Perlberg was an American film producer. Born Wolf Perelberg in Łódź, Poland, he immigrated to the United States with his family in 1905. He worked initially as a fur trader and later as a talent agent and assistant to Harry Cohn before entering film production in the mid-1930s.

Perlberg produced numerous films for major studios, including *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), *Miracle on 34th Street* (1947), *The Country Girl* (1954), *Teacher's Pet* (1958) and *The Tin Star* (1957). He frequently collaborated with writer-director George Seaton, and they established Perlberg-Seaton Productions. He received Academy Award nominations for best picture for *The Song of Bernadette* and two other films.

In 1928 he married singer Bobbe Brox of the Brox Sisters; they had one son.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The Country Girl* (1954), Fi1m 74, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-country-girl.md)
- *Miracle on 34th Street* (1947), Fi1m 85, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/miracle-on-34th-street.md)
- *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), Fi1m 63, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md)
- *One Night of Love* (1934), Fi1m 73, Casting — [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-of-love.md)

## Complete filmography (52)

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

- *36 Hours* (1964), Producer
- *Twilight of Honor* (1963), Producer
- *The Hook* (1963), Producer
- *The Counterfeit Traitor* (1962), Producer
- *The Pleasure of His Company* (1961), Producer
- *The Rat Race* (1960), Producer
- *But Not for Me* (1959), Producer
- *Teacher's Pet* (1958), Producer
- *The Tin Star* (1957), Producer
- *The Proud and Profane* (1956), Producer
- *The Country Girl* (1954), Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-country-girl.md)
- *The Bridges at Toko-Ri* (1954), Producer
- *Little Boy Lost* (1953), Producer
- *Somebody Loves Me* (1952), Producer
- *Anything Can Happen* (1952), Producer
- *Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick* (1952), Producer
- *Rhubarb* (1951), Producer
- *For Heaven's Sake* (1950), Producer
- *I'll Get By* (1950), Producer
- *The Big Lift* (1950), Producer
- *Wabash Avenue* (1950), Producer
- *You Can Change The World* (1950), Producer
- *Slattery's Hurricane* (1949), Producer
- *It Happens Every Spring* (1949), Producer
- *The Forbidden Street* (1949), Producer
- *Chicken Every Sunday* (1949), Producer
- *Apartment for Peggy* (1948), Producer
- *Escape* (1948), Producer
- *Forever Amber* (1947), Producer
- *Miracle on 34th Street* (1947), Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/miracle-on-34th-street.md)
- *The Shocking Miss Pilgrim* (1947), Producer
- *Junior Miss* (1945), Producer
- *Where Do We Go from Here?* (1945), Producer
- *Diamond Horseshoe* (1945), Producer
- *The Eve of St. Mark* (1944), Producer
- *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), Producer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md)
- *Claudia* (1943), Producer
- *Coney Island* (1943), Producer
- *The Meanest Man in the World* (1943), Producer
- *Ten Gentlemen from West Point* (1942), Producer
- *Charley's Aunt* (1941), Producer
- *The Doctor Takes a Wife* (1940), Producer
- *Golden Boy* (1939), Producer
- *Good Girls Go to Paris* (1939), Producer
- *Let Us Live* (1939), Producer
- *The Lady Objects* (1938), Producer
- *There's Always a Woman* (1938), Producer
- *It's All Yours* (1937), Producer
- *The King Steps Out* (1936), Associate Producer
- *Girl in Danger* (1934), Casting
- *One Night of Love* (1934), Casting — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/one-night-of-love.md)
- *The Crime of Helen Stanley* (1934), Casting

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1955: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Country Girl*

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

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