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Darryl F. Zanuck

Personal Info

Known For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

05/09/1902

Day of Death

22/12/1979
(77) years old

Place of Birth

Wahoo, Nebraska, USA

Darryl F. Zanuck

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 r... Read More

Known For

Rat Pack

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

Frank Capra's American Dream

Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Filmography

Cast

2022

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

2006

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stag...

as Self (archive footage)

2005

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywo...

as Self (archive footage)

2000

Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

as Self (archive footage)

1997

Frank Capra's American Dream

as Self (archive footage)

1995

Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

as Self (archive footage)

1988

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Ma...

as Self (archive footage)

1968

D-Day Revisited

as Self

1951

The CinemaScope Parade

as Self

1950

The Screen Writer

as Self (uncredited)

1943

Show-Business at War

as Self

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

as Self

1933

The 42nd Street Special

as Self

Crew

1973

Hung Up

as Producer

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Executive Producer

1965

The Agony and the Ecstasy

as Executive Producer

1964

The Visit

as Producer

1962

The Chapman Report

as Producer

1962

The Longest Day

as Producer

1961

The Big Gamble

as Producer

1961

Sanctuary

as Producer

1960

Crack in the Mirror

as Writer

1960

Crack in the Mirror

as Producer

1958

The Roots of Heaven

as Producer

1958

The Barbarian and the Geisha

as Executive Producer

1957

The Sun Also Rises

as Producer

1957

Island in the Sun

as Producer

1956

The King and I

as Executive Producer

1956

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

as Producer

1956

On the Threshold of Space

as Executive Producer

1955

Good Morning, Miss Dove

as Executive Producer

1955

The View from Pompey's Head

as Executive Producer

1955

Seven Cities of Gold

as Executive Producer

1954

Broken Lance

as Executive Producer

1954

The Egyptian

as Producer

1953

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

as Executive Producer

1952

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

as Producer

1952

Viva Zapata!

as Producer

1951

People Will Talk

as Producer

1951

David and Bathsheba

as Producer

1950

All About Eve

as Producer

1950

No Way Out

as Presenter

1950

No Way Out

as Producer

1950

Night and the City

as Executive Producer

1950

The Gunfighter

as Executive Producer

1950

A Ticket to Tomahawk

as Executive Producer

1950

Under My Skin

as Executive Producer

1949

Twelve O'Clock High

as Producer

1949

Everybody Does It

as Executive Producer

1949

Father Was a Fullback

as Executive Producer

1949

Pinky

as Producer

1949

Slattery's Hurricane

as Executive Producer

1949

Sand

as Executive Producer

1949

You're My Everything

as Executive Producer

1949

It Happens Every Spring

as Executive Producer

1949

The Fan

as Executive Producer

1949

The Forbidden Street

as Executive Producer

1948

The Walls of Jericho

as Executive Producer

1948

That Wonderful Urge

as Executive Producer

1948

The Snake Pit

as Executive Producer

1948

Apartment for Peggy

as Executive Producer

1948

Cry of the City

as Executive Producer

1948

Road House

as Executive Producer

1948

The Iron Curtain

as Presenter

1948

Give My Regards to Broadway

as Executive Producer

1948

Fury at Furnace Creek

as Executive Producer

1948

Sitting Pretty

as Executive Producer

1948

Call Northside 777

as Executive Producer

1947

Captain from Castile

as Executive Producer

1947

Gentleman's Agreement

as Producer

1947

Forever Amber

as Executive Producer

1947

Nightmare Alley

as Executive Producer

1947

The Foxes of Harrow

as Executive Producer

1947

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

as Additional Writing

1947

Moss Rose

as Executive Producer

1947

The Homestretch

as Executive Producer

1947

Carnival in Costa Rica

as Executive Producer

1947

Boomerang!

as Executive Producer

1947

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

as Executive Producer

1946

The Razor's Edge

as Producer

1946

Centennial Summer

as Executive Producer

1946

Somewhere in the Night

as Executive Producer

1946

Strange Triangle

as Executive Producer

1946

Dragonwyck

as Producer

1946

Claudia and David

as Executive Producer

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Executive Producer

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Presenter

1944

Winged Victory

as Producer

1944

Wilson

as Producer

1944

Buffalo Bill

as Executive Producer

1944

The Purple Heart

as Story

1944

The Purple Heart

as Producer

1944

Lifeboat

as Executive Producer

1943

Wintertime

as Executive Producer

1943

Crash Dive

as Executive Producer

1942

China Girl

as Screenplay

1942

China Girl

as Producer

1942

The Black Swan

as Executive Producer

1942

To the Shores of Tripoli

as Producer

1942

Thunder Birds

as Story

1942

Thunder Birds

as Executive Producer

1942

The Pied Piper

as Executive Producer

1942

Moontide

as Executive Producer

1942

This Above All

as Producer

1942

Song of the Islands

as Executive Producer

1942

Sex Hygiene

as Producer

1942

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as Director

1941

How Green Was My Valley

as Producer

1941

Week-End in Havana

as Executive Producer

1941

A Yank in the R.A.F.

as Story

1941

A Yank in the R.A.F.

as Producer

1941

Sun Valley Serenade

as Executive Producer

1941

Wild Geese Calling

as Executive Producer

1941

Moon Over Miami

as Executive Producer

1941

Man Hunt

as Executive Producer

1941

Blood and Sand

as Producer

1941

The Great American Broadcast

as Producer

1941

That Night in Rio

as Producer

1941

Western Union

as Executive Producer

1941

Tobacco Road

as Producer

1941

Tall, Dark and Handsome

as Executive Producer

1941

Know For Sure

as Producer

1940

Chad Hanna

as Producer

1940

Hudson's Bay

as Producer

1940

The Mark of Zorro

as Executive Producer

1940

Down Argentine Way

as Producer

1940

Brigham Young

as Producer

1940

Public Deb No. 1

as Producer

1940

The Great Profile

as Producer

1940

The Return of Frank James

as Producer

1940

The Man I Married

as Producer

1940

Maryland

as Producer

1940

Four Sons

as Producer

1940

Lillian Russell

as Producer

1940

Star Dust

as Producer

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Producer

1940

Little Old New York

as Producer

1940

The Blue Bird

as Producer

1939

Swanee River

as Producer

1939

Too Busy to Work

as Producer

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

as Producer

1939

Hollywood Cavalcade

as Producer

1939

Here I Am a Stranger

as Producer

1939

The Rains Came

as Producer

1939

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

as Producer

1939

Stanley and Livingstone

as Producer

1939

Hotel for Women

as Producer

1939

Second Fiddle

as Executive Producer

1939

Susannah of the Mounties

as Executive Producer

1939

Young Mr. Lincoln

as Producer

1939

The Gorilla

as Executive In Charge Of Production

1939

Rose of Washington Square

as Producer

1939

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

as Producer

1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Executive Producer

1939

Wife, Husband and Friend

as Producer

1939

Tail Spin

as Producer

1939

Jesse James

as Producer

1938

Kentucky

as Executive Producer

1938

Submarine Patrol

as Producer

1938

Just Around the Corner

as Producer

1938

Suez

as Producer

1938

My Lucky Star

as Producer

1938

Gateway

as Producer

1938

Little Miss Broadway

as Producer

1938

I'll Give a Million

as Producer

1938

Always Goodbye

as Producer

1938

Three Blind Mice

as Producer

1938

Josette

as Executive Producer

1938

Kentucky Moonshine

as Producer

1938

In Old Chicago

as Producer

1938

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

as Executive In Charge Of Production

1938

Sally, Irene and Mary

as Executive Producer

1938

International Settlement

as Producer

1938

Happy Landing

as Producer

1937

Love and Hisses

as Producer

1937

Heidi

as Producer

1937

Lancer Spy

as Executive Producer

1937

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

as Producer

1937

Thin Ice

as Producer

1937

Wake Up and Live

as Producer

1937

Wee Willie Winkie

as Producer

1937

Slave Ship

as Producer

1937

Angel's Holiday

as Producer

1937

This Is My Affair

as Production Manager

1937

Seventh Heaven

as Producer

1937

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

as Producer

1937

Love Is News

as Executive In Charge Of Production

1937

On the Avenue

as Producer

1936

Banjo on My Knee

as Executive Producer

1936

White Hunter

as Producer

1936

Lloyd's of London

as Production Manager

1936

Reunion

as Executive Producer

1936

Pigskin Parade

as Producer

1936

Ladies in Love

as Executive In Charge Of Production

1936

Ramona

as Executive Producer

1936

The Road to Glory

as Producer

1936

Sing, Baby, Sing

as Producer

1936

To Mary - with Love

as Producer

1936

Poor Little Rich Girl

as Producer

1936

White Fang

as Producer

1936

Private Number

as Production Manager

1936

Half Angel

as Producer

1936

Under Two Flags

as Producer

1936

The Country Beyond

as Producer

1936

A Message to Garcia

as Producer

1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island

as Producer

1936

It Had to Happen

as Producer

1935

Professional Soldier

as Producer

1935

The Littlest Rebel

as Production Manager

1935

Show Them No Mercy!

as Producer

1935

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carl...

as Producer

1935

Thanks a Million

as Producer

1935

Metropolitan

as Producer

1935

Call of the Wild

as Producer

1935

'G' Men

as Novel

1935

Les Misérables

as Producer

1935

Cardinal Richelieu

as Producer

1935

Folies Bergère

as Producer

1935

Clive of India

as Producer

1934

The Mighty Barnum

as Producer

1934

The Affairs of Cellini

as Producer

1934

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

as Producer

1934

Born to Be Bad

as Producer

1934

The Last Gentleman

as Producer

1934

The House of Rothschild

as Producer

1934

Looking for Trouble

as Producer

1934

Moulin Rouge

as Producer

1933

Lady Killer

as Story

1933

Gallant Lady

as Producer

1933

Advice to the Lovelorn

as Producer

1933

Blood Money

as Producer

1933

The Bowery

as Producer

1933

Baby Face

as Story

1933

Ex-Lady

as Producer

1933

The Working Man

as Producer

1933

Parachute Jumper

as Producer

1932

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

as Producer

1932

Three on a Match

as Producer

1932

The Cabin in the Cotton

as Producer

1932

Life Begins

as Executive Producer

1932

Doctor X

as Executive Producer

1932

The Dark Horse

as Producer

1932

The Dark Horse

as Story

1932

The Rich Are Always with Us

as Producer

1932

The Man Who Played God

as Producer

1931

Blonde Crazy

as Executive Producer

1931

The Public Enemy

as Producer

1931

Illicit

as Producer

1931

Little Caesar

as Producer

1930

The Life of the Party

as Writer

1930

The Doorway to Hell

as Executive Producer

1930

Maybe It's Love

as Story

1930

Three Faces East

as Producer

1929

The Show of Shows

as Producer

1929

On With the Show!

as Producer

1929

Madonna of Avenue A

as Story

1929

Hardboiled Rose

as Story

1928

My Man

as Story

1928

Noah's Ark

as Story

1928

Noah's Ark

as Associate Producer

1928

The Singing Fool

as Producer

1928

The Terror

as Producer

1928

The Midnight Taxi

as Story

1928

State Street Sadie

as Story

1928

Lights of New York

as Production Supervisor

1928

Pay as You Enter

as Story

1928

Tenderloin

as Story

1928

Tenderloin

as Producer

1927

Ham and Eggs at the Front

as Story

1927

Jaws of Steel

as Writer

1927

Old San Francisco

as Writer

1927

Old San Francisco

as Producer

1927

The Desired Woman

as Story

1927

The Desired Woman

as Associate Producer

1927

The First Auto

as Producer

1927

The First Auto

as Story

1927

The Black Diamond Express

as Story

1927

Simple Sis

as Story

1927

Irish Hearts

as Story

1927

Tracked by the Police

as Story

1927

The Missing Link

as Scenario Writer

1927

Wolf's Clothing

as Screenplay

1926

The Better 'Ole

as Screenplay

1926

Across the Pacific

as Adaptation

1926

So This Is Paris

as Producer

1926

Footloose Widows

as Writer

1926

Oh! What a Nurse!

as Scenario Writer

1926

The Little Irish Girl

as Adaptation

1926

The Cave Man

as Writer

1925

Lady Windermere's Fan

as Producer

1925

Hogan's Alley

as Writer

1925

Seven Sinners

as Story

1925

Red Hot Tires

as Story

1925

The Limited Mail

as Writer

1925

Eve's Lover

as Scenario Writer

1925

Eve's Lover

as Producer

1925

A Broadway Butterfly

as Writer

1925

On Thin Ice

as Scenario Writer

1924

The Lighthouse by the Sea

as Writer

1924

Find Your Man

as Writer

1924

Sherlock's Home

as Scenario Writer

1924

Money to Burns

as Co-Writer

1923

Fighting Blood

as Writer

1923

Fighting Blood

as Writer

1923

Fighting Blood

as Writer