Darryl F. Zanuck
male
Born on September 05, 1902 (122 years old)
Passed Away on December 22, 1979
From Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
Known for Production
Biography
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.
Cast Credits
- 2022
- 2009
- 2006
- 2005
- 2001
- 2000
- 1997
- 1995
- 1988
- 1968
- 1958
- 1956
- 1951
- 1950
- 1943
- 1940
- 1933
Crew Credits
- 1973
- 1970
- 1965
- 1964
- 1962
- 1961
- 1960
- 1958
- 1957
- 1956
- 1955
- 1954
- 1953
- 1952
- 1951
- 1950
- 1949
Pinky
as
Producer
1949
Everybody Does It
as
Executive Producer
1949
The Forbidden Street
as
Executive Producer
1949
Sand
as
Executive Producer
1949
The Fan
as
Executive Producer
1949
It Happens Every Spring
as
Executive Producer
1949
Father Was a Fullback
as
Executive Producer
1949
Slattery's Hurricane
as
Executive Producer
1949
Twelve O'Clock High
as
Producer
1949
You're My Everything
as
Executive Producer
1949
- 1948
The Snake Pit
as
Executive Producer
1948
The Walls of Jericho
as
Executive Producer
1948
Call Northside 777
as
Executive Producer
1948
Fury at Furnace Creek
as
Executive Producer
1948
Sitting Pretty
as
Executive Producer
1948
Cry of the City
as
Executive Producer
1948
Give My Regards to Broadway
as
Executive Producer
1948
Road House
as
Executive Producer
1948
That Wonderful Urge
as
Executive Producer
1948
Apartment for Peggy
as
Executive Producer
1948
The Iron Curtain
as
Presenter
1948
- 1947
Boomerang!
as
Executive Producer
1947
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
as
Executive Producer
1947
The Foxes of Harrow
as
Executive Producer
1947
Carnival in Costa Rica
as
Executive Producer
1947
Moss Rose
as
Executive Producer
1947
The Homestretch
as
Executive Producer
1947
Nightmare Alley
as
Executive Producer
1947
Forever Amber
as
Executive Producer
1947
Captain from Castile
as
Executive Producer
1947
Gentleman's Agreement
as
Producer
1947
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
as
Additional Writing
1947
- 1946
- 1945
- 1944
- 1943
- 1942
China Girl
as
Screenplay
1942
Thunder Birds
as
Story
1942
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
as
Director
1942
Sex Hygiene
as
Producer
1942
To the Shores of Tripoli
as
Producer
1942
Song of the Islands
as
Executive Producer
1942
This Above All
as
Producer
1942
Thunder Birds
as
Executive Producer
1942
The Black Swan
as
Executive Producer
1942
China Girl
as
Producer
1942
The Pied Piper
as
Executive Producer
1942
Moontide
as
Executive Producer
1942
- 1941
How Green Was My Valley
as
Producer
1941
Hudson's Bay
as
Producer
1941
Know For Sure
as
Producer
1941
Western Union
as
Executive Producer
1941
Tobacco Road
as
Producer
1941
That Night in Rio
as
Producer
1941
The Great American Broadcast
as
Producer
1941
Blood and Sand
as
Producer
1941
Wild Geese Calling
as
Executive Producer
1941
Man Hunt
as
Executive Producer
1941
Moon Over Miami
as
Executive Producer
1941
A Yank in the R.A.F.
as
Story
1941
A Yank in the R.A.F.
as
Producer
1941
Week-End in Havana
as
Executive Producer
1941
Sun Valley Serenade
as
Executive Producer
1941
Tall, Dark and Handsome
as
Executive Producer
1941
- 1940
The Grapes of Wrath
as
Producer
1940
The Blue Bird
as
Producer
1940
Brigham Young
as
Producer
1940
Little Old New York
as
Producer
1940
Maryland
as
Producer
1940
Star Dust
as
Producer
1940
The Man I Married
as
Producer
1940
Four Sons
as
Producer
1940
The Great Profile
as
Producer
1940
Down Argentine Way
as
Producer
1940
Public Deb No. 1
as
Producer
1940
The Return of Frank James
as
Producer
1940
Chad Hanna
as
Producer
1940
The Mark of Zorro
as
Executive Producer
1940
Lillian Russell
as
Producer
1940
- 1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
as
Producer
1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
as
Producer
1939
Here I Am a Stranger
as
Producer
1939
Hollywood Cavalcade
as
Producer
1939
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as
Executive Producer
1939
Jesse James
as
Producer
1939
Wife, Husband and Friend
as
Producer
1939
Tail Spin
as
Producer
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as
Producer
1939
Second Fiddle
as
Executive Producer
1939
Rose of Washington Square
as
Producer
1939
Susannah of the Mounties
as
Executive Producer
1939
Stanley and Livingstone
as
Producer
1939
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
as
Producer
1939
Too Busy to Work
as
Producer
1939
Hotel for Women
as
Producer
1939
Swanee River
as
Producer
1939
The Rains Came
as
Producer
1939
The Gorilla
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
- 1938
Just Around the Corner
as
Producer
1938
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as
Producer
1938
International Settlement
as
Producer
1938
Submarine Patrol
as
Producer
1938
Always Goodbye
as
Producer
1938
I'll Give a Million
as
Producer
1938
In Old Chicago
as
Producer
1938
Sally, Irene and Mary
as
Executive Producer
1938
Happy Landing
as
Producer
1938
Kentucky Moonshine
as
Producer
1938
Gateway
as
Producer
1938
Josette
as
Executive Producer
1938
My Lucky Star
as
Producer
1938
Kentucky
as
Executive Producer
1938
Three Blind Mice
as
Producer
1938
Little Miss Broadway
as
Producer
1938
Suez
as
Producer
1938
- 1937
Heidi
as
Producer
1937
On the Avenue
as
Producer
1937
Seventh Heaven
as
Producer
1937
Slave Ship
as
Producer
1937
Wee Willie Winkie
as
Producer
1937
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
as
Producer
1937
Angel's Holiday
as
Producer
1937
Lancer Spy
as
Executive Producer
1937
Wake Up and Live
as
Producer
1937
Thin Ice
as
Producer
1937
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as
Producer
1937
This Is My Affair
as
Production Manager
1937
Love Is News
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1937
Love and Hisses
as
Producer
1937
- 1936
Private Number
as
Production Manager
1936
It Had to Happen
as
Producer
1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island
as
Producer
1936
The Country Beyond
as
Producer
1936
A Message to Garcia
as
Producer
1936
Under Two Flags
as
Producer
1936
Half Angel
as
Producer
1936
Poor Little Rich Girl
as
Producer
1936
The Road to Glory
as
Producer
1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
as
Producer
1936
Pigskin Parade
as
Producer
1936
White Fang
as
Producer
1936
To Mary - with Love
as
Producer
1936
Ramona
as
Executive Producer
1936
Reunion
as
Executive Producer
1936
White Hunter
as
Producer
1936
Banjo on My Knee
as
Executive Producer
1936
Ladies In Love
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1936
Lloyd's of London
as
Production Manager
1936
- 1935
'G' Men
as
Novel
1935
Clive of India
as
Producer
1935
Show Them No Mercy!
as
Producer
1935
Metropolitan
as
Producer
1935
Cardinal Richelieu
as
Producer
1935
Les Misérables
as
Producer
1935
Call of the Wild
as
Producer
1935
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
as
Producer
1935
Thanks a Million
as
Producer
1935
Folies Bergère
as
Producer
1935
Professional Soldier
as
Producer
1935
The Littlest Rebel
as
Production Manager
1935
- 1934
- 1933
- 1932
Doctor X
as
Executive Producer
1932
Three on a Match
as
Producer
1932
The Rich Are Always with Us
as
Producer
1932
The Cabin in the Cotton
as
Producer
1932
The Dark Horse
as
Producer
1932
The Dark Horse
as
Story
1932
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
as
Producer
1932
Life Begins
as
Executive Producer
1932
The Man Who Played God
as
Producer
1932
- 1931
- 1930
- 1929
- 1928
Noah's Ark
as
Story
1928
Tenderloin
as
Story
1928
Tenderloin
as
Producer
1928
Noah's Ark
as
Associate Producer
1928
Lights of New York
as
Production Supervisor
1928
The Singing Fool
as
Producer
1928
My Man
as
Story
1928
The Terror
as
Producer
1928
State Street Sadie
as
Story
1928
The Midnight Taxi
as
Story
1928
Pay as You Enter
as
Story
1928
- 1927
The Black Diamond Express
as
Story
1927
The Missing Link
as
Scenario Writer
1927
Irish Hearts
as
Story
1927
The First Auto
as
Producer
1927
Jaws of Steel
as
Writer
1927
Old San Francisco
as
Writer
1927
The Desired Woman
as
Associate Producer
1927
Old San Francisco
as
Producer
1927
The Desired Woman
as
Story
1927
The First Auto
as
Story
1927
Tracked by the Police
as
Story
1927
Ham and Eggs at the Front
as
Story
1927
Simple Sis
as
Story
1927
Wolf's Clothing
as
Screenplay
1927
- 1926
- 1925
- 1924
- 1923
