Darryl F. Zanuck
Known For: Production
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: September 5, 1902
Day of Death: December 22, 1979 (77 years old)
Place of Birth: Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
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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Producer
Pinky
Executive Producer
Everybody Does It
Executive Producer
The Forbidden Street
Executive Producer
The Fan
Executive Producer
It Happens Every Spring
Executive Producer
Sand
Executive Producer
Slattery's Hurricane
Executive Producer
Father Was a Fullback
Producer
Twelve O'Clock High
Executive Producer
You're My Everything
1948
Executive Producer
The Snake Pit
Executive Producer
The Walls of Jericho
Executive Producer
Call Northside 777
Executive Producer
Sitting Pretty
Executive Producer
Fury at Furnace Creek
Executive Producer
Give My Regards to Broadway
Executive Producer
Road House
Executive Producer
Cry of the City
Executive Producer
Apartment for Peggy
Executive Producer
That Wonderful Urge
Presenter
The Iron Curtain
1947
Executive Producer
Boomerang!
Executive Producer
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Executive Producer
Carnival in Costa Rica
Executive Producer
The Homestretch
Executive Producer
Moss Rose
Executive Producer
The Foxes of Harrow
Executive Producer
Nightmare Alley
Executive Producer
Forever Amber
Producer
Gentleman's Agreement
Executive Producer
Captain from Castile
Additional Writing
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
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1942
Screenplay
China Girl
Story
Thunder Birds
Director
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Producer
Sex Hygiene
Executive Producer
Song of the Islands
Producer
To the Shores of Tripoli
Producer
This Above All
Executive Producer
Thunder Birds
Executive Producer
The Black Swan
Producer
China Girl
Executive Producer
The Pied Piper
Executive Producer
Moontide
1941
Producer
How Green Was My Valley
Producer
Hudson's Bay
Producer
Know For Sure
Executive Producer
Western Union
Producer
Tobacco Road
Producer
That Night in Rio
Producer
The Great American Broadcast
Producer
Blood and Sand
Executive Producer
Man Hunt
Executive Producer
Moon Over Miami
Executive Producer
Wild Geese Calling
Executive Producer
Sun Valley Serenade
Story
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Producer
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Executive Producer
Week-End in Havana
Executive Producer
Tall, Dark and Handsome
1940
Actor Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Producer
The Grapes of Wrath
Producer
The Blue Bird
Producer
Brigham Young
Producer
Little Old New York
Producer
Maryland
Producer
Star Dust
Producer
Lillian Russell
Producer
Four Sons
Producer
The Man I Married
Producer
The Return of Frank James
Producer
The Great Profile
Producer
Public Deb No. 1
Producer
Down Argentine Way
Executive Producer
The Mark of Zorro
Producer
Chad Hanna
1939
Producer
Young Mr. Lincoln
Producer
Drums Along the Mohawk
Producer
Here I Am a Stranger
Producer
Hollywood Cavalcade
Producer
Jesse James
Producer
Tail Spin
Producer
Wife, Husband and Friend
Executive Producer
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Producer
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Producer
Rose of Washington Square
Executive Producer
Susannah of the Mounties
Executive Producer
Second Fiddle
Producer
Stanley and Livingstone
Producer
Hotel for Women
Producer
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Producer
The Rains Came
Producer
Too Busy to Work
Producer
Swanee River
Executive In Charge Of Production
The Gorilla
1938
Producer
Just Around the Corner
Producer
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Producer
International Settlement
Producer
Submarine Patrol
Producer
Always Goodbye
Producer
I'll Give a Million
Producer
In Old Chicago
Producer
Happy Landing
Executive Producer
Sally, Irene and Mary
Producer
Kentucky Moonshine
Executive Producer
Josette
Producer
Three Blind Mice
Producer
Little Miss Broadway
Producer
Gateway
Producer
My Lucky Star
Executive Producer
Kentucky
Producer
Suez
1937
Producer
Heidi
Producer
On the Avenue
Producer
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Producer
Seventh Heaven
Producer
Angel's Holiday
Producer
Slave Ship
Producer
Wee Willie Winkie
Producer
Wake Up and Live
Producer
Thin Ice
Producer
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Executive Producer
Lancer Spy
Production Manager
This Is My Affair
Executive In Charge Of Production
Love Is News
Producer
Love and Hisses
1936
Production Manager
Private Number
Producer
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Producer
It Had to Happen
Producer
A Message to Garcia
Producer
The Country Beyond
Producer
Under Two Flags
Producer
Half Angel
Producer
The Road to Glory
Producer
Poor Little Rich Girl
Producer
White Fang
Producer
To Mary - with Love
Producer
Sing, Baby, Sing
Executive Producer
Ramona
Producer
Pigskin Parade
Executive Producer
Reunion
Producer
White Hunter
Executive Producer
Banjo on My Knee
Executive In Charge Of Production
Ladies In Love
Production Manager
Lloyd's of London
1935
Novel
'G' Men
Producer
Clive of India
Producer
Show Them No Mercy!
Producer
Metropolitan
Producer
Cardinal Richelieu
Producer
Folies Bergère
Producer
Les Misérables
Producer
Call of the Wild
Producer
Thanks a Million
Producer
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Producer
Professional Soldier
Production Manager
The Littlest Rebel
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Story
The Black Diamond Express
Scenario Writer
The Missing Link
Story
Irish Hearts
Producer
The First Auto
Writer
Jaws of Steel
Writer
Old San Francisco
Producer
Old San Francisco
Story
The First Auto
Story
The Desired Woman
Associate Producer
The Desired Woman
Story
Tracked by the Police
Story
Ham and Eggs at the Front
Story
Simple Sis
