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Daniel Unger(I)

  • Producer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Additional Crew
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Daniel has grown up in the film business, in fact, he is the 4th generation to work in an industry that started in the early years of the last century. His father Kurt Unger was a Producer having received his grounding as an executive at United Artists overseeing distribution and production in Italy & UK. His Grandfather Siegfried Unger directed films for UFA at Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam Berlin until 1932. His Great-grandfather was an exhibitor and owned the early theatre/cinemas in Nord Rhein-Westfalia.

Daniel's first paying job was on 'Judith' where he served as assistant Director on the Second Unit under the team of Nicholas Roeg & Alec Thompson. Apart from his numerous film Production and Sales credits over the past decades Danny has initiated a number of entrepreneurial corporate successes in the Printing field building a chain of 200 stores. Alongside these he served as Founder and Chairman of entities in the publishing and direct marketing field which became quoted Public companies.

He is assembling an 8 part TV series telling the story of Wilfrid Israel, one of the primary architects of the Kindertransport. The tentative title of this project is 'A Kinder Rescue'.
BornJune 4, 1948
BornJune 4, 1948
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    Known for

    Return from the River Kwai (1989)
    Return from the River Kwai
    4.9
    • Producer
    • 1989
    Christien Anholt and Guinevere Turner in Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
    Preaching to the Perverted
    5.8
    • Producer(as Danny Unger)
    • 1997
    Pope Joan (1972)
    Pope Joan
    5.5
    • Producer(uncredited)
    • 1972

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    Producer



    • Christien Anholt and Guinevere Turner in Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
      Preaching to the Perverted
      5.8
      • executive producer (as Danny Unger)
      • 1997
    • Return from the River Kwai (1989)
      Return from the River Kwai
      4.9
      • executive producer
      • 1989
    • Pope Joan (1972)
      Pope Joan
      5.5
      • producer (uncredited)
      • 1972

    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • Judith (1966)
      Judith
      5.6
      • second second assistant director (uncredited)
      • 1966

    Additional Crew



    • Pope Joan (1972)
      Pope Joan
      5.5
      • assistant to producer
      • 1972

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      • Danny Unger
    • Born
      • June 4, 1948
      • Tel Aviv, Israel

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