Darryl F. Zanuck

Known For: Production
Born: September 5, 1902
Place of Birth: Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
Died: December 22, 1979

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 …

Filmography

Rat Pack

2022 · Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Invasion

2011

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009 · Self (archive footage)

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

2006 · Self (archive footage)

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

2005 · Self (archive footage)

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

2001 · Self (archive footage)

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

2001 · Self (archive footage)

Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

2000 · Self (archive footage)

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997 · Self (archive footage)

Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker

1995 · Self (archive footage)

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995 · Self (archive footage)

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

1988 · Self (archive footage)

Hung Up

1973 · Producer

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 · Executive Producer

The Dick Cavett Show

1968 · Self - Guest

D-Day Revisited

1968 · Self

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965 · Executive Producer

The Visit

1964 · Producer

The Chapman Report

1962 · Producer

The Longest Day

1962 · Producer, Co-Director

The Big Gamble

1961 · Producer

Sanctuary

1961 · Producer

Crack in the Mirror

1960 · Writer, Producer

The Roots of Heaven

1958 · Producer

Small World

1958 · Self

The Barbarian and the Geisha

1958 · Executive Producer

The Sun Also Rises

1957 · Producer

Island in the Sun

1957 · Producer

The King and I

1956 · Executive Producer

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956 · Producer

On the Threshold of Space

1956 · Executive Producer

Cinépanorama

1956 · Self

Good Morning, Miss Dove

1955 · Executive Producer

The View from Pompey's Head

1955 · Executive Producer

Seven Cities of Gold

1955 · Executive Producer

Broken Lance

1954 · Executive Producer

The Egyptian

1954 · Producer

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

1953 · Executive Producer

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

1952 · Producer

Viva Zapata!

1952 · Producer

The CinemaScope Parade

The CinemaScope Parade

1951 · Self

People Will Talk

1951 · Producer

David and Bathsheba

1951 · Producer

All About Eve

1950 · Producer

The Screen Writer

The Screen Writer

1950 · Self (uncredited)

No Way Out

1950 · Presenter, Producer

Night and the City

1950 · Executive Producer

The Gunfighter

1950 · Executive Producer

A Ticket to Tomahawk

1950 · Executive Producer

Under My Skin

1950 · Executive Producer

What's My Line?

1950 · Self

Twelve O'Clock High

1949 · Producer

Everybody Does It

1949 · Executive Producer

Father Was a Fullback

1949 · Executive Producer

Pinky

1949 · Producer

Slattery's Hurricane

1949 · Executive Producer

Sand

1949 · Executive Producer

You're My Everything

1949 · Executive Producer

It Happens Every Spring

1949 · Executive Producer

The Fan

1949 · Executive Producer

The Forbidden Street

1949 · Executive Producer

The Walls of Jericho

1948 · Executive Producer

That Wonderful Urge

1948 · Executive Producer

The Snake Pit

1948 · Executive Producer

Apartment for Peggy

1948 · Executive Producer

Cry of the City

1948 · Executive Producer

Road House

1948 · Executive Producer

The Iron Curtain

1948 · Presenter

Give My Regards to Broadway

1948 · Executive Producer

Fury at Furnace Creek

1948 · Executive Producer

Call Northside 777

1948 · Executive Producer

Captain from Castile

1947 · Executive Producer

Gentleman's Agreement

1947 · Producer

Forever Amber

1947 · Executive Producer

Nightmare Alley

1947 · Executive Producer

The Foxes of Harrow

1947 · Executive Producer

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

1947 · Additional Writing

Moss Rose

1947 · Executive Producer

The Homestretch

1947 · Executive Producer

Carnival in Costa Rica

1947 · Executive Producer

Boomerang!

1947 · Executive Producer

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

1947 · Executive Producer

The Razor's Edge

1946 · Producer

Centennial Summer

1946 · Executive Producer

Somewhere in the Night

1946 · Executive Producer

Strange Triangle

1946 · Executive Producer

Dragonwyck

1946 · Producer

Claudia and David

1946 · Executive Producer

Leave Her to Heaven

1945 · Executive Producer, Presenter

Winged Victory

1944 · Producer

Wilson

1944 · Producer

Buffalo Bill

1944 · Executive Producer

The Purple Heart

1944 · Story, Producer

Lifeboat

1944 · Executive Producer

Wintertime

1943 · Executive Producer

Show-Business at War

1943 · Self

Crash Dive

1943 · Executive Producer

China Girl

1942 · Screenplay, Producer

The Black Swan

1942 · Executive Producer

To the Shores of Tripoli

1942 · Producer

Thunder Birds

1942 · Story, Executive Producer

The Pied Piper

1942 · Executive Producer

Moontide

1942 · Executive Producer

This Above All

1942 · Producer

Song of the Islands

1942 · Executive Producer

Sex Hygiene

1942 · Producer

How Green Was My Valley

1941 · Producer

Know For Sure

1941 · Producer

Week-End in Havana

1941 · Executive Producer

A Yank in the R.A.F.

1941 · Story, Producer

Sun Valley Serenade

1941 · Executive Producer

Wild Geese Calling

1941 · Executive Producer

Moon Over Miami

1941 · Executive Producer

Man Hunt

1941 · Executive Producer

Blood and Sand

1941 · Producer

The Great American Broadcast

1941 · Producer

That Night in Rio

1941 · Producer

Western Union

1941 · Executive Producer

Tobacco Road

1941 · Producer

Tall, Dark and Handsome

1941 · Executive Producer

Chad Hanna

1940 · Producer

Hudson's Bay

1940 · Producer

The Mark of Zorro

1940 · Executive Producer

Down Argentine Way

1940 · Producer

Brigham Young

1940 · Producer

Public Deb No. 1

1940 · Producer

The Great Profile

1940 · Producer

The Return of Frank James

1940 · Producer

The Man I Married

1940 · Producer

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940 · Self

Maryland

1940 · Producer

Four Sons

1940 · Producer

Lillian Russell

1940 · Producer

Star Dust

1940 · Producer

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 · Producer

Little Old New York

1940 · Producer

The Blue Bird

1940 · Producer

Swanee River

1939 · Producer

Too Busy to Work

1939 · Producer

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939 · Producer

Hollywood Cavalcade

1939 · Producer

Here I Am a Stranger

1939 · Producer

The Rains Came

1939 · Producer

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1939 · Producer

Stanley and Livingstone

1939 · Producer

Hotel for Women

1939 · Producer

Second Fiddle

1939 · Executive Producer

Susannah of the Mounties

1939 · Executive Producer

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939 · Producer

The Gorilla

1939 · Executive In Charge Of Production

Rose of Washington Square

1939 · Producer

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939 · Producer

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939 · Executive Producer

Wife, Husband and Friend

1939 · Producer

Tail Spin

1939 · Producer

Jesse James

1939 · Producer

Kentucky

1938 · Executive Producer

Submarine Patrol

1938 · Producer

Just Around the Corner

1938 · Producer

Suez

1938 · Producer

My Lucky Star

1938 · Producer

Gateway

1938 · Producer

Little Miss Broadway

1938 · Producer

I'll Give a Million

1938 · Producer

Always Goodbye

1938 · Producer

Three Blind Mice

1938 · Producer

Josette

1938 · Executive Producer

Kentucky Moonshine

1938 · Producer

In Old Chicago

1938 · Producer

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1938 · Executive In Charge Of Production

Sally, Irene and Mary

1938 · Executive Producer

International Settlement

1938 · Producer

Happy Landing

1938 · Producer

Love and Hisses

1937 · Producer

Heidi

1937 · Producer

Lancer Spy

1937 · Executive Producer

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937 · Producer

Thin Ice

1937 · Producer

Wake Up and Live

1937 · Producer

Wee Willie Winkie

1937 · Producer

Slave Ship

1937 · Producer

Angel's Holiday

1937 · Producer

This Is My Affair

1937 · Production Manager

Seventh Heaven

1937 · Producer

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

1937 · Producer

Love Is News

1937 · Executive In Charge Of Production

On the Avenue

1937 · Producer

Banjo on My Knee

1936 · Executive Producer

White Hunter

1936 · Producer

Lloyd's of London

1936 · Production Manager

Reunion

1936 · Executive Producer

Pigskin Parade

1936 · Producer

Ladies in Love

1936 · Executive In Charge Of Production

Ramona

1936 · Executive Producer

The Road to Glory

1936 · Producer

Sing, Baby, Sing

1936 · Producer

To Mary - with Love

1936 · Producer

Poor Little Rich Girl

1936 · Producer

White Fang

1936 · Producer

Private Number

1936 · Production Manager

Half Angel

1936 · Producer

Under Two Flags

1936 · Producer

The Country Beyond

1936 · Producer

A Message to Garcia

1936 · Producer

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936 · Producer

It Had to Happen

1936 · Producer

Professional Soldier

1935 · Producer

The Littlest Rebel

1935 · Production Manager

Show Them No Mercy!

1935 · Producer

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

1935 · Producer

Thanks a Million

1935 · Producer

Metropolitan

1935 · Producer

Call of the Wild

1935 · Producer

'G' Men

1935 · Novel

Les Misérables

1935 · Producer

Cardinal Richelieu

1935 · Producer

Folies Bergère de Paris

1935 · Producer

Clive of India

1935 · Producer

The Mighty Barnum

1934 · Producer

The Affairs of Cellini

1934 · Producer

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

1934 · Producer

Born to Be Bad

1934 · Producer

The Last Gentleman

1934 · Producer

The House of Rothschild

1934 · Producer

Looking for Trouble

1934 · Producer

Moulin Rouge

1934 · Producer

Lady Killer

1933 · Story

Gallant Lady

1933 · Producer

Advice to the Lovelorn

1933 · Producer

Blood Money

1933 · Producer

The Bowery

1933 · Producer

Baby Face

1933 · Story

Ex-Lady

1933 · Producer

The Working Man

1933 · Producer

42nd Street

1933 · Producer

The 42nd Street Special

1933 · Self

Parachute Jumper

1933 · Producer

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932 · Producer

Three on a Match

1932 · Producer

The Cabin in the Cotton

1932 · Producer

Life Begins

1932 · Executive Producer

Doctor X

1932 · Executive Producer

The Dark Horse

1932 · Producer, Story

The Rich Are Always with Us

1932 · Producer

The Man Who Played God

1932 · Producer

Blonde Crazy

1931 · Executive Producer

The Public Enemy

1931 · Producer

Illicit

1931 · Producer

Little Caesar

1931 · Producer, Additional Writing

The Life of the Party

1930 · Writer

The Doorway to Hell

1930 · Executive Producer

Maybe It's Love

1930 · Story

Three Faces East

1930 · Producer

The Show of Shows

1929 · Producer

Disraeli

1929 · Producer

On With the Show!

1929 · Producer

Madonna of Avenue A

1929 · Story

Hardboiled Rose

1929 · Story

My Man

1928 · Story

Noah's Ark

1928 · Story, Associate Producer

The Singing Fool

1928 · Producer

The Terror

1928 · Producer

The Midnight Taxi

1928 · Story

State Street Sadie

1928 · Story

Lights of New York

1928 · Production Supervisor

Pay as You Enter

1928 · Story

Tenderloin

1928 · Story, Producer

Ham and Eggs at the Front

1927 · Story

Jaws of Steel

1927 · Writer

Old San Francisco

1927 · Writer, Producer

The Desired Woman

1927 · Story, Associate Producer

The First Auto

1927 · Producer, Story

The Black Diamond Express

1927 · Story

Simple Sis

1927 · Story

Irish Hearts

1927 · Story

Tracked by the Police

1927 · Story

The Missing Link

1927 · Scenario Writer

Wolf's Clothing

1927 · Screenplay

The Better 'Ole

1926 · Screenplay

Across the Pacific

1926 · Adaptation

So This Is Paris

1926 · Producer

Footloose Widows

1926 · Writer

The Social Highwayman

1926 · Story

Oh! What a Nurse!

1926 · Scenario Writer

The Little Irish Girl

1926 · Adaptation

The Cave Man

1926 · Writer

Lady Windermere's Fan

1925 · Producer

Hogan's Alley

1925 · Writer

Three Weeks in Paris

1925 · Scenario Writer

Seven Sinners

1925 · Story

Red Hot Tires

1925 · Story

The Limited Mail

1925 · Writer

Eve's Lover

1925 · Scenario Writer, Producer

A Broadway Butterfly

1925 · Writer

On Thin Ice

1925 · Scenario Writer

The Lighthouse by the Sea

1924 · Writer

Find Your Man

1924 · Writer

Sherlock's Home

1924 · Scenario Writer

Money to Burns

1924 · Co-Writer

Fighting Blood

1923 · Writer

Fighting Blood

1923 · Writer

Fighting Blood

1923 · Writer

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