Sam Davis (film producer)
Sam Davis (* 1964 in New York City , New York , United States ) is a German - American film producer .
Life
After studying at the University of Southern California and the University of California in Los Angeles , Sam Davis began his career at 20th Century Fox . He then founded the company Insight Out Films in order to realize his documentary film Why we are here (“Why we are here”) in Frankfurt in 1992 for the BBC and WDR .
From 1993 to 1998 Davis headed the TV Movies department at RTL , where he was responsible for the development and production of around 100 TV films.
In 1998 he joined the Cologne production company Zeitsprung as a partner and co-managing director , where he produced event films, TV films and series.
In September 2000 his book "Quota Fever" was published in the "Book & Media" series by Bastei Lübbe (Ed. Béatrice Ottersbach, translated from English into German by Cécile G. Lecaux).
In 2004 Davis took over the management of the fiction department at Endemol Germany. Here he was responsible for productions such as love without a return ticket , Mr. Nanny - A man for mom and the two-part London, love, dovecote .
Davis has been running Rowboat Film and TV Production since 2010 , which he founded with Jan Mojtos Beta Film in January. The company's first film, Das Wunder von Kärnten , premiered in 2011 at the Hamburg Film Festival and was nominated for the producer's award in the 16: 9 section. It was first broadcast on television on January 18, 2012 on ORF and was the most successful film of the year in Austria with more than 1 million viewers. In Germany, the film was broadcast for the first time on ZDF on March 5, 2012, with over 5 million viewers . With Das Wunder von Kärnten , Sam Davis won the International Emmy Award for Rowboat in 2013 . In addition to various individual pieces Sam Davis produced since then by rowboat series and series such as The dead from Lake Constance and Professor T. .
Filmography
- 1993: Deadly Lie
- 1993: The fate of Lilian H.
- 1994: A mother fights for her son
- 1994: Christmas with Willy Wuff
- 1994: Day of reckoning - The gunman from Euskirchen
- 1994: My child should live
- 1994: This is your end
- 1994: blood in the cradle
- 1995: Deadly Life
- 1995: The robber with the gentle hand
- 1995: Murderous Twins
- 1995: Blindfolded
- 1995: Attorney Martin Berg - On behalf of justice: Murder in the hospital
- 1995: Everyone loves Willy Wuff
- 1996: The airport clinic
- 1996: Love has two lives
- 1996: The murderer of Venus
- 1996: The Voice of the Murderer
- 1996: A Clean Murder: Death in the Cleaning Company
- 1996: The parking garage killer
- 1996: The child murder
- 1996: You Are Not Alone - The Roy Black Story
- 1996: adrenaline
- 1996: 5 hours of fear - hostage-taking in kindergarten
- 1997: the fruit of violence
- 1997: Sexy Lissy
- 1997: the darn baby year - never sex again?
- 1997: The Death Bus
- 1997: Death of a Teacher - A Suspected School
- 1997: Thalia - Queen of Love
- 1997: One Night's Sin
- 1997: Nina - from the children's room in a brothel
- 1997: Murderous living - the death of the last tenant
- 1997: The lie in your eyes
- 1997: Cold kisses
- 1997: Witching hour - elevator to the afterlife
- 1997: The hairdresser and the millionaire
- 1997: Piglet Fritz
- 1997: Bloody divorce
- 1997: The quiet Mr. Genardy
- 1997: The Girl Trap - Death Comes Online
- 1997: Seven Fires of Death - Code Red
- 1998: Vicky's nightmare
- 1998: Silvias Bauch - Two men and (not) a baby
- 1998: Seven days to happiness
- 1998: my wife loves two
- 1998: Florian - love with all my heart
- 1998: love me to death
- 1998: Hellish neighbors
- 1998: Heart Quake - The Night That Changed Everything
- 1998: The holy whore
- 1998: Gigolo - Love when you call
- 1998: You stole my family from me
- 1998: The call girl
- 1998: The Beast in Lake Constance
- 1998: Shattered Dreams - Love in Shackles
- 1998: the bitch
- 1998: Florian - love with all my heart
- 1999: Die Singlefalle - love games until death
- 1999: Paul and Clara - love never goes away
- 2000: pure love
- 2000: Anna H. - lover, wife and whore
- 2000: Laila - Immortal in love
- 2001: Mircomania
- 2001: lust for death
- 2001: The wife, the girlfriend and the rapist
- 2001: Victor - The Guardian Angel
- 2001: Pest - The return
- 2001: The secret glances of the murderer
- 2001: Little man is looking for a big heart
- 2002: Two affairs and a wedding
- 2002: Honeymoon in the stairwell
- 2002: Prince of Wales in color
- 2003: The miracle of Lengede
- 2003: Krista
- 2004: love without a return ticket
- 2005: Bridal couple on trial
- 2005: A dog, two suitcases and a great love
- 2005: a princess to fall in love with
- 2006: Maja Paradise
- 2006: my enchanting enemy
- 2006: Mr. Nanny - a man for mom
- 2006: Two brides and an affair
- 2007: The mysterious son-in-law
- 2008: Small lie for love
- 2008: Four days in Tuscany
- 2008: Zoo Whisper - Don't get in my enclosure!
- 2009: 40+ is looking for new love
- 2009: London, love, dovecote
- 2009: London, love, dovecote: folding bike or rattle stork
- 2010: The miracle of Carinthia
- 2011: At the end of the lie
- 2012: The boarding school (pilot)
- 2012: Out and about with Elsa
- 2012: A summer in Alsace
- 2013: a summer in Portugal
- 2013: Better live Italian!
- since 2014: Die Toten vom Bodensee (TV series)
- 2014: The Cold Truth
- 2015: Because I love you
- 2015: trust me
- 2016: Wedding in Rome
- 2017–2020: Professor T. (TV series)
- 2019: Made of skin and bones
Awards and nominations
- 2004: Grimme Prize for The Miracle of Lengede
- 2012: Romy for The Miracle of Carinthia
- 2013: International Emmy Award 2013 for The Miracle of Carinthia
- 2014: Nominated for the Hamburg Producer Award for German TV Productions for The Cold Truth
- 2015: Nominated for the Hamburg Producer Award for German TV Productions for Trust Me
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ International Emmy Awards 2013 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
- ^ ZDF press portal: The ZDF at the Hamburg Film Festival. Retrieved November 14, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Davis, Sam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |