Pierre Spengler is a French

France

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 film producer. Among many international hits, he is best known for initiating the first three Superman

Superman

Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...

 movies, and producing them with Ilya Salkind

Ilya Salkind

Ilya Juan Salkind Dominguez , usually known as Ilya Salkind, is a film and television producer, well known for his contributions to the live-action Superman films of the 1970s and '80s alongside his father, Alexander Salkind....

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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

Supergirl (film)

Supergirl is a 1984 superhero film directed by Jeannot Szwarc, and stars Helen Slater in her first motion picture role in the title role of the DC Comics superheroine Supergirl. Faye Dunaway played the primary villain, Selena. The film was a spin-off from the Salkinds' Superman film series which...

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In 2004, he acquired French publishing house Les Humanoïdes Associés

Les Humanoïdes Associés

Les Humanoïdes Associés is a French publishing house specialising in comics and graphic novels. Founded in December 1974 by Mœbius, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet and Bernard Farkas in order to publish Métal Hurlant, it quickly expanded to include a variety of science fiction work...

 in order to develop their properties in movies.

Filmography

A partial list, chronologically:

• (1970) Kill
  KILL
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  (executive in charge of production)
• (1973) The Three Musketeers
  The Three Musketeers (1973 film)
  The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It was directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser . It was originally proposed in the 1960s as a vehicle for The Beatles, whom Lester had directed in two other films...
  
  (executive in charge of production)
• (1974) The Four Musketeers
  The Four Musketeers (film)
  The Four Musketeers is a 1974 Richard Lester film that follows upon his film of the year before, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers...
  
  (producer)
• (1976) The Twist
  The Twist (film)
  The Twist is a 1976 film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is Folies bourgeoises .-Plot:...
  
  (producer)
• (1978) Superman (producer)
• (1980) Superman II
  Superman II
  Superman II is the 1980 sequel to the 1978 superhero film Superman and stars Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, and Jack O'Halloran. It was the only Superman film to be filmed by two directors...
  
  (producer)
• (1983) Superman III
  Superman III
  Superman III is a 1983 superhero film and the third film in the Superman film series based upon the long-running DC Comics superhero. Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure and Margot Kidder are joined by new cast members Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn and...
  
  (producer)
• (1984) Santa Claus: The Movie
  Santa Claus: The Movie
  Santa Claus: The Movie is a 1985 British/American Christmas film starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow. It is the last major fantasy film produced by the Paris-based father-and-son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind...
  
  (producer)
• (1989) The Return of the Musketeers
  The Return of the Musketeers
  The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third Musketeers film directed by Richard Lester, following 1973's The Three Musketeers and 1974's The Four Musketeers...
  
  (producer)
• (1995) Underground (executive producer)
• (2005) Unleashed
  Unleashed (film)
  Unleashed , is a 2005 American-British-French martial arts action thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier and written by Luc Besson. Film stars Jet Li, Bob Hoskins, Morgan Freeman and Kerry Condon...
  
  alias Danny the Dog (co-producer)

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
  Machine translation
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   by Babel Fish
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