Leo Meyer (producer)

Leo Meyer
Born	(1873-08-29)29 August 1873 Karlino, Germany
Died	11 February 1944(1944-02-11) (aged 70)
Other names	Leo Meijer
Occupation	Film producer
Years active	1926–1939

Leo Meyer (29 August 1873 – 11 February 1944) was a German film producer. He is sometimes also credited as Leo Meijer. Following the Nazi rise to power Meyer, who was Jewish, went into exile and emigrated to the Netherlands where he continued to produce films.

Amongst the films that Meyer worked on in Weimar Germany was the war film Westfront 1918.[1]

Selected filmography

• Rinaldo Rinaldini (1927)
• Circle of Lovers (1927)
• Sex in Chains (1928)
• Somnambul (1929)
• Marriage in Trouble (1929)
• Westfront 1918 (1930)
• Panic in Chicago (1931)
• The First Right of the Child (1932)

References

1. Ashkenazi p.199

Bibliography

• Ashkenazi, Ofer. Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

External links

• Leo Meyer at IMDb