Film producer

A film producer oversees the making of movies. The producer initiates, coordinates, supervises and controls matters such as raising funding, hiring key personnel, and arranging for distributors. The producer is involved throughout all phases of the filmmaking process from inception to completion of a project.

Some notable film producers

• Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, and Barbara Broccoli - The James Bond series
• Jerry Bruckheimer - Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Con Air
• Dino de Laurentiis - Waterloo, Death Wish, U-571, Hannibal
• Robert Evans- Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown, The Saint
• Howard Kazanjian - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return Of The Jedi, Demolition Man
• Alexander Korda - Things to Come, The Four Feathers (1939), The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
• Walter Mirisch - West Side Story, The Sound Of Music
• Harry Saltzman - The James Bond series, Battle of Britain, The Ipcress File
• David O. Selznick - King Kong, Gone with the Wind
• Sam Spiegel - The African Queen, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia
• Irving Thalberg - Mutiny on the Bounty, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Grand Hotel, A Night at the Opera
• Hal B. Wallis - The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Elvis Presley films
• Saul Zaentz - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The English Patient
• Darryl F. Zanuck - many Shirley Temple movies, The Grapes of Wrath, All About Eve, The Longest Day