Sam Davis

Sam Davis (born 1964 in New York City, New York) is a German-American film producer.

He is the founder of Germany-based production company Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion, and lives and works in Cologne.

Davis is a graduate of the University of Southern California and studied German at UCLA.

After working at 20th Century Fox, he founded his own company Insight Out Films.

In 1992, Davis moved to Frankfurt (Germany), where he wrote and directed the documentary Warum wir hier sind (Why we're here) for the BBC and WDR.

From 1993 until 1998, he was head of the TV Movie Department at RTL Television in Cologne.

During this time, he was responsible for the development and production of approximately 100 TV movies and miniseries.

He introduced Germany to the made-for-TV movie.

In 1998, Davis became a partner and Co-CEO of Cologne-based production company Zeitsprung.

He produced event productions, TV movies and series.

In 2000, Davis book' Quotenfieber - Das Geheimnis erfolgreicher TV-Movies was published.

In this book, he writes about the German television broadcasting business, how fictional TV-movies are made, what functions they have and the importance of ratings.

From 2004 until 2009, Davis took charge of the German Fiction department of Endemol Germany where he was responsible for TV movie and series productions Liebe ohne Rückfahrschein, Mr. Nanny – Ein Mann für Mama and the two-part London, Liebe, Taubenschlag.

In January 2010, Davis co-founded and became CEO of Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion.

Rowboat's first TV movie A Day for a Miracle premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival in 2011.

In 2012 Davis won the ROMY prize in Austria for Best Producer for A Day for a Miracle.

At the International Emmy Award 2013 A Day for a Miracle won in the category TV Movie/Mini-Series.

Since then Davis has produced Murder by the Lake and Professor T. and Faster Than Fear.

Davis is married and has four children.