- Known For
- Production
- Born
- April 24, 1910
- Place of Birth
- Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
- Died
- October 26, 1993
Albert Zugsmith
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Zugsmith (April 24, 1910 – October 26, 1993) was an American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s. With a background in music promotion (Ted Weems, Paul Whitman) public relations (one of his clients in depression era Chicago was Al Copone), journalism and brokering communication properties (radio, newspaper, early television), Zugsmith became independently wealthy and began producing films at RKO during the Howard Hughes years. Zugsmith's most significant credits are a string of four genre masterpieces produced in the late 1950s, all for Universal Studios: the science-fiction classic The Incredible Shrinking Man, Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, and the camp exploitation films produced for MGM High School Confidential and The…
Filmography
Acting for Douglas Sirk
movieActing for Douglas Sirk
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
movieDouglas Sirk: Über Stars
1980 · Self
movieViolated!
1973 · Director, Writer
movieThe Thing with Two Heads
1972 · Cameo
movieThe Manson Massacre
1971 · Writer, Director
movieThe Phantom Gunslinger
1970 · Director
movieTwo Roses and a Golden Rod
1969 · Director, Writer
movieThe Very Friendly Neighbors
1969 · Director, Writer
movieSappho Darling
1968 · Screenplay, Director
movieThe Chinese Room
1968 · Director, Screenplay
moviePsychedelic Sexualis
1966 · Writer, Director
movieMovie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You
1966 · Director
movieThe Incredible Sex Revolution
1965 · Director
movieFanny Hill
1964 · Grand Duke, Producer
Zigzag
movieZigzag
1963 · Producer
movieConfessions of an Opium Eater
1962 · Director, Producer
movieDondi
1961 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieCollege Confidential
1960 · Director, Story, Producer
movieSex Kittens Go to College
1960 · Director, Story, Producer
moviePlatinum High School
1960 · Executive Producer
movieThe Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1960 · Director, Presenter
movieGirls Town
1959 · Producer
movieThe Big Operator
1959 · Producer
movieThe Beat Generation
1959 · Producer
movieNight of the Quarter Moon
1959 · Producer
movieHigh School Confidential!
1958 · Producer
movieTouch of Evil
1958 · Producer
movieThe Female Animal
1958 · Story, Producer
movieMan in the Shadow
1957 · Producer
movieThe Tarnished Angels
1957 · Producer
movieSlaughter on 10th Avenue
1957 · Producer
movieThe Girl in the Kremlin
1957 · Producer
movieThe Tattered Dress
1957 · Producer
movieThe Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · Producer
movieWritten on the Wind
1956 · Producer
movieStar in the Dust
1956 · Producer
movieRaw Edge
1956 · Producer
movieRed Sundown
1956 · Producer
movieThe Square Jungle
1955 · Producer
movieFemale on the Beach
1955 · Producer
moviePort Sinister
1953 · Associate Producer
movieSword of Venus
1953 · Associate Producer
movieInvasion, U.S.A.
1952 · Producer
movieCaptive Women
1952 · Associate Producer