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person_profile-Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl F. Zanuck Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Darryl F. Zanuck

Date of Birth:

Sep 05, 1902

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Dec 22, 1979

Biography of

Darryl F. Zanuck

    Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career was rivaled only by that of Adolph Zukor). He produced three films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture during his tenure.

    Zanuck was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the son of Sarah Louise (née Torpin), who later married Charles Norton, and Frank Harvey Zanuck, who owned and operated a hotel in Wahoo. He had an older brother, Donald (1893–1903), who died in an accident when he was only 9 years old. Zanuck was of partial Swiss descent, and raised a Protestant. At age six, Zanuck and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where the better climate could improve her poor health. At age eight, he found his first movie job as an extra, but his disapproving father recalled him to Nebraska. In 1917, despite being 15, he deceived a recruiter, joined the United States Army, and served in France with the Nebraska National Guard during World War I.

    Upon returning to the US, he worked in many part-time jobs while seeking work as a writer. He found work producing movie plots, and sold his first story in 1922 to William Russell and his second to Irving Thalberg. Screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas, story editor at Universal Pictures' New York office, stated that one of the stories Zanuck sent out to movie studios around this time was completely plagiarized from another author's work.

    Zanuck then worked for Mack Sennett and FBO (where he wrote the serials The Telephone Girl and The Leather Pushers) and took that experience to Warner Bros., where he wrote stories for Rin Tin Tin and under a number of pseudonyms wrote over 40 scripts from 1924 to 1929, including Red Hot Tires (1925) and Old San Francisco (1927). He moved into management in 1929, and became head of production in 1931.

    In 1933, Zanuck left Warner Bros. over a salary dispute with studio head Jack L. Warner. A few days later, he partnered with Joseph Schenck to form 20th Century Pictures, Inc. with financial help from Joseph's brother Nicholas Schenck and Louis B. Mayer, president and studio head of Loew's, Inc and its subsidiary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, along with William Goetz and Raymond Griffith. 20th Century released its material through United Artists.

    During that short time (1933–1935), 20th Century became the most successful independent movie studio of its time, breaking box-office records with 18 of its 19 films, all profitable, including Clive of India, Les Miserables, and The House of Rothschild. After a dispute with United Artists over stock ownership, Schenck and Zanuck negotiated and used their studio to bring the bankrupt Fox studios in 1935 to create Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

    Zanuck was Vice President of Production of this new studio and took a hands-on approach, closely involving himself in scripts, film editing, and producing. ... Source: Article "Darryl F. Zanuck" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Filmography of

Darryl F. Zanuck

Found 237 Movies in total

Hung Up

Producer

... 1973

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Executive Producer

... 1970

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Executive Producer

... 1965

The Visit

Producer

... 1964

... 1962

... 1962

... 1961

Sanctuary

Producer

... 1961

... 1960

... 1958

... 1958

... 1957

... 1957

The King and I

Executive Producer

... 1956

... 1956

On the Threshold of Space

Executive Producer

... 1956

Good Morning, Miss Dove

Executive Producer

... 1955

... 1955

Seven Cities of Gold

Executive Producer

... 1955

Broken Lance

Executive Producer

... 1954

... 1954

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

Executive Producer

... 1953

... 1952

With a Song in My Heart

Executive Producer

... 1952

... 1952

... 1951

... 1951

... 1950

No Way Out

Presenter

... 1950

Night and the City

Executive Producer

... 1950

The Gunfighter

Executive Producer

... 1950

A Ticket to Tomahawk

Executive Producer

... 1950

Under My Skin

Executive Producer

... 1950

... 1949

Everybody Does It

Executive Producer

... 1949

Father Was a Fullback

Executive Producer

... 1949

Pinky

Producer

... 1949

Slattery's Hurricane

Executive Producer

... 1949

Sand

Executive Producer

... 1949

You're My Everything

Executive Producer

... 1949

It Happens Every Spring

Executive Producer

... 1949

The Fan

Executive Producer

... 1949

The Forbidden Street

Executive Producer

... 1949

The Walls of Jericho

Executive Producer

... 1948

That Wonderful Urge

Executive Producer

... 1948

The Snake Pit

Executive Producer

... 1948

Apartment for Peggy

Executive Producer

... 1948

Cry of the City

Executive Producer

... 1948

Road House

Executive Producer

... 1948

... 1948

Fury at Furnace Creek

Executive Producer

... 1948

Sitting Pretty

Executive Producer

... 1948

Call Northside 777

Executive Producer

... 1948

Captain from Castile

Executive Producer

... 1947

... 1947

Forever Amber

Executive Producer

... 1947

Nightmare Alley

Executive Producer

... 1947

The Foxes of Harrow

Executive Producer

... 1947

Moss Rose

Executive Producer

... 1947

The Homestretch

Executive Producer

... 1947

Carnival in Costa Rica

Executive Producer

... 1947

Boomerang!

Executive Producer

... 1947

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

Executive Producer

... 1947

... 1946

Centennial Summer

Executive Producer

... 1946

Somewhere in the Night

Executive Producer

... 1946

Strange Triangle

Executive Producer

... 1946

Dragonwyck

Producer

... 1946

Claudia and David

Executive Producer

... 1946

... 1945

... 1944

Wilson

Producer

... 1944

Buffalo Bill

Executive Producer

... 1944

... 1944

Lifeboat

Executive Producer

... 1944

Wintertime

Executive Producer

... 1943

Crash Dive

Executive Producer

... 1943

China Girl

Screenplay

... 1942

The Black Swan

Executive Producer

... 1942

... 1942

... 1942

The Pied Piper

Executive Producer

... 1942

Moontide

Executive Producer

... 1942

... 1942

Song of the Islands

Executive Producer

... 1942

... 1941

Week-End in Havana

Executive Producer

... 1941

... 1941

Sun Valley Serenade

Executive Producer

... 1941

Wild Geese Calling

Executive Producer

... 1941

Moon Over Miami

Executive Producer

... 1941

Man Hunt

Executive Producer

... 1941

... 1941

... 1941

... 1941

Western Union

Executive Producer

... 1941

... 1941

Tall, Dark and Handsome

Executive Producer

... 1941

... 1941

Chad Hanna

Producer

... 1940

The Mark of Zorro

Executive Producer

... 1940

... 1940

... 1940

... 1940

... 1940

... 1940

... 1940

Maryland

Producer

... 1940

Four Sons

Producer

... 1940

... 1940

Star Dust

Producer

... 1940

... 1940

... 1940

... 1940

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

Second Fiddle

Executive Producer

... 1939

Susannah of the Mounties

Executive Producer

... 1939

... 1939

The Gorilla

Executive In Charge Of Production

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

... 1939

Tail Spin

Producer

... 1939

Jesse James

Producer

... 1939

Kentucky

Executive Producer

... 1938

... 1938

... 1938

Suez

Producer

... 1938

... 1938

Gateway

Producer

... 1938

... 1938

... 1938

... 1938

... 1938

Josette

Executive Producer

... 1938

... 1938

... 1938

... 1938

Sally, Irene and Mary

Executive Producer

... 1938

... 1938

... 1938

... 1937

Heidi

Producer

... 1937

Lancer Spy

Executive Producer

... 1937

... 1937

Thin Ice

Producer

... 1937

... 1937

... 1937

Slave Ship

Producer

... 1937

... 1937

This Is My Affair

Production Manager

... 1937

... 1937

... 1937

Love Is News

Executive In Charge Of Production

... 1937

... 1937

Banjo on My Knee

Executive Producer

... 1936

... 1936

Lloyd's of London

Production Manager

... 1936

Reunion

Executive Producer

... 1936

... 1936

Ladies In Love

Executive In Charge Of Production

... 1936

Ramona

Executive Producer

... 1936

... 1936

... 1936

... 1936

... 1936

White Fang

Producer

... 1936

Private Number

Production Manager

... 1936

Half Angel

Producer

... 1936

... 1936

... 1936

... 1936

... 1936

... 1936

The Littlest Rebel

Production Manager

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1935

... 1934

... 1934

... 1934

... 1934

... 1934

... 1934

... 1934

... 1934

... 1933

... 1933

Blood Money

Producer

... 1933

The Bowery

Producer

... 1933

Ex-Lady

Producer

... 1933

... 1933

... 1933

... 1932

... 1932

... 1932

Life Begins

Executive Producer

... 1932

Doctor X

Executive Producer

... 1932

... 1932

... 1932

... 1932

Blonde Crazy

Executive Producer

... 1931

... 1931

Illicit

Producer

... 1931

... 1931

The Doorway to Hell

Executive Producer

... 1930

... 1930

... 1929

... 1929

... 1928

... 1928

The Terror

Producer

... 1928

Lights of New York

Production Supervisor

... 1928

... 1928

... 1927

... 1927

... 1927

... 1927

... 1926

... 1925

Eve's Lover

Scenario Writer

... 1925