Actor · Producer

David Geffen

11 credited titles on WatchWise

David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American film producer, record executive, and media proprietor. In music, he co-founded Asylum Records with Elliot Roberts in 1971 before founding Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and co-founding DreamWorks Records (with Mo Ostin, Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker) in 1996. In film, he founded the Geffen Film Company in 1986 and co-founded DreamWorks SKG (with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg) in 1994. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Geffen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

David Geffen in one minute

Strongest genre

Comedy

$27M · 100% hit rate

Biggest hit

Little Shop of Horrors

$54M

Standout efficiency

3.5x

The Defiant Ones · gross ÷ budget

Commercial performance

Associated lifetime gross

$27M

Combined reported budget

$13M

Gross / budget

2.2x

Bankability Index

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