Pierre Spengler
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Pierre Spengler is a French film producer. Among many international hits, he is best known for initiating the first three Superman movies, and producing them with Ilya Salkind.
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[edit] Overview
Pierre Spengler started in the movie industry in 1964. After being a producer in the Salkind Organisation from 1972 to 1985, he became an independent producer in 1986. He was also a consultant on the 1984 movie Supergirl.
In 2004, he acquired French publishing house Les Humanoïdes Associés in order to develop their properties in movies.
[edit] Filmography
A partial list, chronologically:
- (1973) The Three Musketeers (executive in charge of production)
- (1974) The Four Musketeers (producer)
- (1978) Superman: The Movie (producer)
- (1980) Superman II (producer)
- (1983) Superman III (producer)
- (1984) Santa Claus: The Movie (producer)
- (1989) The Return of the Musketeers (producer)
- (1995) Underground (executive producer)
- (2005) Unleashed alias Danny the Dog (co-producer)
[edit] Notes and references
[edit] External links
- Interviews
- (in French) A July 2006 interview with Pierre Spengler - discuss the Superman movies and the Humanoïdes Associés buyout
- (in English) The same July 2006 interview - machine translation by Babel Fish