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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.

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.

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)

Notes and references

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

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