Samuel Goldwyn

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1879-08-17 (95 years old)

Deathday

1974-01-31

Place of Birth

Warsaw, Poland

Samuel Goldwyn

Biography

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmul Gelbfisz), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was a Polish American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood. In 1916, Goldwyn partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making enterprise Goldwyn Pictures. Seeing an opportunity, Samuel Gelbfisz then had his name legally changed to Samuel Goldwyn, which he used for the rest of his life. Goldwyn Pictures proved successful but it is their Leo the Lion trademark for which the organization is most famous. On Ap...

Acting

2001

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

as Self (archive footage)

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

2013

Salinger

as Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

1958

Small world: Vivien Leigh

as Self- producer

Production

1959

Porgy and Bess

as Producer

1939

1955

Guys and Dolls

as Producer

1945

Wonder Man

as Producer

1940

The Westerner

as Presenter

1950

Edge of Doom

as Producer

1938

1947

1931

Arrowsmith

as Presenter

1939

The Real Glory

as Presenter

1939

The Real Glory

as Producer

1924

Name the Man

as Executive Producer

1930

Whoopee!

as Producer

1920

1920

Jes' Call Me Jim

as Producer

1920

1920

1920

The Truth

as Producer

1920

The Penalty

as Producer

1920

Officer 666

as Executive Producer

1920

Honest Hutch

as Producer

1920

1920

The Great Lover

as Producer

1921

1921

Guile of Women

as Producer

1921

1917

Polly of the Circus

as Executive Producer

1932

Arsène Lupin

as Producer

1921

1921

1921

1922

Watch Your Step

as Executive Producer

1922

Sherlock Holmes

as Executive Producer

1922

Head Over Heels

as Executive Producer

1927

The Magic Flame

as Producer

1928

The Awakening

as Producer

1922

Remembrance

as Producer

1922

A Blind Bargain

as Producer

1923

The Christian

as Executive Producer

1922

1923

Unseeing Eyes

as Producer

1923

1923

1923

The Day of Faith

as Producer

1923

The Eternal City

as Producer

1924

Three Weeks

as Executive Producer

1924

Cytherea

as Producer

1924

True As Steel

as Executive Producer

1924

1934

Nana

as Producer

1925

1925

Stella Dallas

as Producer

1927

1926

Partners Again

as Producer

1927

The Devil Dancer

as Producer

1928

Two Lovers

as Producer

1929

The Rescue

as Executive Producer

1929

This Is Heaven

as Producer

1929

Bulldog Drummond

as Producer

1917

The Cinderella Man

as Executive Producer

1917

Fighting Odds

as Producer

1918

The Floor Below

as Producer

1918

All Woman

as Executive Producer

1918

1918

1918

Peck's Bad Girl

as Producer

1918

Thirty a Week

as Producer

1918

The Hell Cat

as Executive Producer

1918

A Perfect 36

as Producer

1918

1918

A Perfect Lady

as Producer

1919

The Stronger Vow

as Executive Producer

1919

Sis Hopkins

as Producer

1919

Upstairs

as Producer

1919

Almost a Husband

as Executive Producer

1919

1919

Jubilo

as Producer

1930

Raffles

as Producer

1920

Pinto

as Producer

1930

1930

1929

Condemned!

as Producer

1920

The Paliser Case

as Executive Producer

1931

Street Scene

as Producer

1931

Palmy Days

as Producer

1931

1931

Arrowsmith

as Producer

1931

Tonight or Never

as Producer

1932

Cynara

as Producer

1934

Kid Millions

as Producer

1933

The Masquerader

as Producer

1933

Roman Scandals

as Producer

1932

1934

We Live Again

as Producer

1935

The Dark Angel

as Producer

1935

1936

Come and Get It

as Producer

1935

Barbary Coast

as Producer

1936

Dodsworth

as Producer

1935

Splendor

as Producer

1936

Strike Me Pink

as Producer

1936

These Three

as Producer

1937

Woman Chases Man

as Producer

1936

Beloved Enemy

as Producer

1937

Dead End

as Producer

1937

The Hurricane

as Producer

1937

Stella Dallas

as Producer

1938

1943

1939

Raffles

as Producer

1939

1941

The Little Foxes

as Producer

1940

The Westerner

as Producer

1946

1941

Ball of Fire

as Producer

1944

Up in Arms

as Producer

1949

Roseanna McCoy

as Producer

1950

My Foolish Heart

as Producer

1948

Enchantment

as Producer

1948

A Song Is Born

as Producer

1943

The North Star

as Producer

1950

Our Very Own

as Producer

1951

I Want You

as Producer

1955

Brooba

as Production Consultant

1937

The Hurricane

as Presenter

1950

Our Very Own

as Presenter

1941

Ball of Fire

as Presenter

1920

The Penalty

as Presenter

1918

1918

1937

Dead End

as Presenter

1920

1923

Slave of Desire

as Producer

1922

Hungry Hearts

as Producer

1919

1919

The World and Its Woman

as Executive Producer

1919

The Loves of Letty

as Presenter

1919

1920

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