Arthur Cohn (born February 4, 1927) is a film producer and a multiple Academy Award winner.
Cohn was born to a Jewish family, the son of Marcus Cohn, a lawyer and leader of the Swiss Zionist movement who moved to Israel in 1949 where he helped to write many of the basic laws of the new state and served as Israel’s assistant attorney-general. Cohn’s mother, Rose Cohn-Galewski, was a Jewish-German poet from Berlin. Cohn’s grandfather, Arthur Cohn, was the first chief rabbi of Basel. After completing high school, Cohn became a journalist and a reporter for Swiss Radio, covering the Middle East as well as soccer and ice hockey games. He shifted from journalist writing to script writing, but soon found his passion in film production.
Six of his films have won the Academy Award, three in the category of Best Foreign Language Film and three in the category of Best Documentary Feature. Cohn was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 1995, the Humanitarian Award by the National Board of Review in 2001, the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004 as well as the UNESCO Award in 2005. He is a multiple honorary degree recipient from Boston University (1998), Yeshiva University (2001) and the University of Basel (2006) and Bar-Ilan University (2021). Cohn has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Chicago International Film Festival (1992), the Shanghai International Film Festival (1999), as well as from the International Film Festivals in Jerusalem (1995) and Haifa (2016). In 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cinema for Peace-Foundation in Berlin. Cohn divides his time between Basel and Los Angeles and is regarded as a hands-on producer who is strongly involved with the development of the script until the final touches of the editing process. For decades he was assisted by Lillian Birnbaum (Paris) and Pierre Rothschild (Zurich). Arthur Cohn’s films have been shown at many retrospectives around the world.
His best-known fictional film is The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, directed by Vittorio De Sica). He also produced films by Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) and Walter Salles (Central Station, Behind the Sun).
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Arthur Cohn Biography / Wiki
| Name | Arthur Cohn |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Production |
| Place of Birth | Basel, Switzerland |
| Date of Birth | 1927-02-04 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 95 |
| Deathday |
Arthur Cohn Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years | Self | 2003-05-18 | While silent-film star Charlie Chaplin may have charmed American audiences with the onscreen antics of his lovable “Tramp” character, the actor’s priv… |
Arthur Cohn Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Central Station | Producer | 1998-11-20 | An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search f… |
| Sunflower | Producer | 1970-03-14 | At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead… |
| The Chorus | Producer | 2004-03-17 | Set in 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration…. |
| Dangerous Moves | Producer | 1984-04-15 | World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet… |
| A Place for Lovers | Producer | 1968-12-19 | Globe-trotting clothes-horse Julia, who’s harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Valerio in Italy…. |
| One Day in September | Producer | 1999-10-22 | The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation ‘Wrath of God.’ The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Pal… |
| Adoption | Producer | 1979-01-10 | A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work extremely informally and without many regulations. Bu… |
| Love on the Ground | Producer | 1984-10-17 | A fashionable playwright-director offers roles to two young actresses. Shortly after accepting, the actresses notice strange clauses in their contract… |
| Sky Above and Mud Beneath | Producer | 1961-05-05 | In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook’s Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far s… |
| American Dream | Producer | 1990-10-06 | When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor… |
| Woman Times Seven | Producer | 1967-09-29 | Seven mini-stories of adultery: “Funeral Possession,” a wayward widow at her husband’s funeral; “Amateur Night,” angry wife becomes streetwalker out o… |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Producer | 1970-12-04 | In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, … |
| Two Bits | Producer | 1995-10-22 | It’s a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding t… |
| A Brief Vacation | Producer | 1973-07-21 | Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contra… |
| November Days | Producer | 1991-02-16 | Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism…. |
| Black and White in Color | Producer | 1976-01-01 | French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their pr… |
| We’ll Call Him Andrea | Producer | 1972-10-14 | Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child…. |
| White Lies | Producer | 1997-04-01 | A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she off… |
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Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Red Skies of Montana | Story | 1952-01-23 | When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of ‘Smoke Jumpers’, the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest … |
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