Darryl F. Zanuck

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-09-05 (77 years old)

Deathday

1979-12-22

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 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 d...

Acting

1995

2001

2006

2022

Rat Pack

as Self (archive footage)

1968

1950

The Screen Writer

as Self (uncredited)

2005

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as Self (archive footage)

1997

Frank Capra's American Dream

as Self (archive footage)

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)

2000

Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

as Self (archive footage)

2001

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1940

1950

All About Eve

as Producer

1952

Viva Zapata!

as Producer

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Executive Producer

1932

Doctor X

as Executive Producer

1951

People Will Talk

as Producer

1962

The Longest Day

as Producer

1957

1933

Baby Face

as Story

1935

'G' Men

as Novel

1937

Heidi

as Producer

1944

The Purple Heart

as Producer

1944

1938

1948

The Snake Pit

as Executive Producer

1949

Pinky

as Producer

1940

The Blue Bird

as Producer

1933

1933

Lady Killer

as Story

1927

The Missing Link

as Scenario Writer

1931

The Public Enemy

as Producer

1939

1945

Leave Her to Heaven

as Executive Producer

1947

Boomerang!

as Executive Producer

1950

Night and the City

as Executive Producer

1939

1942

China Girl

as Screenplay

1940

Brigham Young

as Producer

1935

Clive of India

as Producer

1942

1941

Hudson's Bay

as Producer

1941

Know For Sure

as Producer

1962

1926

1935

1927

Irish Hearts

as Story

1933

Blood Money

as Producer

1940

1935

Metropolitan

as Producer

1940

Maryland

as Producer

1939

1938

Submarine Patrol

as Producer

1936

Private Number

as Production Manager

1933

The Bowery

as Producer

1927

The First Auto

as Producer

1939

1929

1961

The Big Gamble

as Producer

1948

The Walls of Jericho

as Executive Producer

1938

Always Goodbye

as Producer

1938

1949

Everybody Does It

as Executive Producer

1924

Find Your Man

as Writer

1927

Jaws of Steel

as Writer

1935

1934

Moulin Rouge

as Producer

1926

So This Is Paris

as Producer

1925

1927

1927

The Desired Woman

as Associate Producer

1928

Noah's Ark

as Story

1928

Tenderloin

as Story

1928

Tenderloin

as Producer

1928

Noah's Ark

as Associate Producer

1927

1927

1931

Little Caesar

as Producer

1933

Parachute Jumper

as Producer

1927

1932

Three on a Match

as Producer

1929

1934

1930

Three Faces East

as Producer

1932

The Dark Horse

as Producer

1932

1932

Life Begins

as Executive Producer

1933

The Working Man

as Producer

1930

The Doorway to Hell

as Executive Producer

1933

Ex-Lady

as Producer

1931

Illicit

as Producer

1932

1933

Gallant Lady

as Producer

1934

1934

1935

Les Misérables

as Producer

1936

It Had to Happen

as Producer

1935

Call of the Wild

as Producer

1935

Thanks a Million

as Producer

1934

1935

Folies Bergère

as Producer

1936

1935

1936

1936

Under Two Flags

as Producer

1936

Half Angel

as Producer

1936

1936

1936

Sing, Baby, Sing

as Producer

1936

Pigskin Parade

as Producer

1936

White Fang

as Producer

1936

1936

Ramona

as Executive Producer

1937

On the Avenue

as Producer

1936

Reunion

as Executive Producer

1937

Seventh Heaven

as Producer

1937

Slave Ship

as Producer

1937

1936

White Hunter

as Producer

1936

Banjo on My Knee

as Executive 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

1950

A Ticket to Tomahawk

as Executive Producer

1938

In Old Chicago

as Producer

1930

1938

Sally, Irene and Mary

as Executive Producer

1953

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

as Executive Producer

1952

With a Song in My Heart

as Executive Producer

1951

1938

Happy Landing

as Producer

1938

1954

The Egyptian

as Producer

1938

Gateway

as Producer

1938

Josette

as Executive Producer

1955

Seven Cities of Gold

as Executive Producer

1938

My Lucky Star

as Producer

1938

Kentucky

as Executive Producer

1938

Three Blind Mice

as Producer

1954

Broken Lance

as Executive Producer

1938

1955

Good Morning, Miss Dove

as Executive Producer

1939

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Executive Producer

1939

Jesse James

as Producer

1955

The View from Pompey's Head

as Executive Producer

1939

Tail Spin

as Producer

1956

The King and I

as Executive Producer

1939

Second Fiddle

as Executive Producer

1939

Susannah of the Mounties

as Executive Producer

1956

On the Threshold of Space

as Executive Producer

1957

1961

Sanctuary

as Producer

1958

The Barbarian and the Geisha

as Executive Producer

1960

1958

1960

1939

Too Busy to Work

as Producer

1939

Hotel for Women

as Producer

1939

Swanee River

as Producer

1939

The Rains Came

as Producer

1973

Hung Up

as Producer

1940

Star Dust

as Producer

1964

The Visit

as Producer

1940

1940

Four Sons

as Producer

1940

1940

1940

Public Deb No. 1

as Producer

1940

Chad Hanna

as Producer

1941

Western Union

as Executive Producer

1940

The Mark of Zorro

as Executive Producer

1941

Tobacco Road

as Producer

1941

1940

Lillian Russell

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

1925

Hogan's Alley

as Writer

1925

1925

1941

1941

Week-End in Havana

as Executive Producer

1941

Sun Valley Serenade

as Executive Producer

1942

Sex Hygiene

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

1943

Crash Dive

as Executive Producer

1943

Wintertime

as Executive Producer

1944

Buffalo Bill

as Executive Producer

1944

Wilson

as Producer

1946

Claudia and David

as Executive Producer

1944

Winged Victory

as Producer

1946

Dragonwyck

as Producer

1946

Somewhere in the Night

as Executive Producer

1946

Strange Triangle

as Executive Producer

1946

Centennial Summer

as Executive Producer

1947

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

as Executive Producer

1946

The Razor's Edge

as 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

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

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

1950

Under My Skin

as Executive Producer

1949

1941

Tall, Dark and Handsome

as Executive Producer

1928

Lights of New York

as Production Supervisor

1965

The Agony and the Ecstasy

as Executive Producer

1950

No Way Out

as Presenter

1942

The Pied Piper

as Executive Producer

1931

Blonde Crazy

as Executive Producer

1934

Born to Be Bad

as Producer

1949

You're My Everything

as Executive Producer

1950

The Gunfighter

as Executive Producer

1928

The Singing Fool

as Producer

1926

The Better 'Ole

as Screenplay

1937

This Is My Affair

as Production Manager

1935

The Littlest Rebel

as Production Manager

1926

1944

Lifeboat

as Executive Producer

1928

My Man

as Story

1936

Ladies in Love

as Executive In Charge Of Production

1937

Love Is News

as Executive In Charge Of Production

1925

1928

The Terror

as Producer

1928

1928

1929

1937

Love and Hisses

as Producer

1950

No Way Out

as Producer

1938

Suez

as Producer

1947

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

as Additional Writing

1939

The Gorilla

as Executive In Charge Of Production

1926

Across the Pacific

as Adaptation

1936

Lloyd's of London

as Production Manager

1926

The Cave Man

as Writer

1928

1927

Simple Sis

as Story

1924

Money to Burns

as Co-Writer

1923

1923

1923

1925

Eve's Lover

as Scenario Writer

1925

Eve's Lover

as Producer

1926

Oh! What a Nurse!

as Scenario Writer

1945

1948

The Iron Curtain

as Presenter

1942

Moontide

as Executive Producer

1924

Sherlock's Home

as Scenario Writer

1927

Wolf's Clothing

as Screenplay

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