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), …
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Filmography
Acting (20)
Movies (16)
Rat Pack
2022as Self (archive footage)
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009as Self (archive footage)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006as Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005as Self (archive footage)
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001as Self (archive footage)
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001as Self (archive footage)
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
2000as Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997as Self (archive footage)
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
1995as Self (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1988as Self (archive footage)
D-Day Revisited
1968as Self
The CinemaScope Parade
1951as Self
The Screen Writer
1950as Self (uncredited)
Show-Business at War
1943as Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940as Self
The 42nd Street Special
1933as Self
Crew (296)
Movies (296)
Hung Up
1973Producer
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970Executive Producer
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965Executive Producer
The Visit
1964Producer
The Longest Day
1962Producer
The Chapman Report
1962Producer
Sanctuary
1961Producer
The Big Gamble
1961Producer
Crack in the Mirror
1960Producer
Crack in the Mirror
1960Writer
The Roots of Heaven
1958Producer
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958Executive Producer
Island in the Sun
1957Producer
The Sun Also Rises
1957Producer
The King and I
1956Executive Producer
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956Producer
On the Threshold of Space
1956Executive Producer
Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955Executive Producer
Seven Cities of Gold
1955Executive Producer
The View from Pompey's Head
1955Executive Producer
The Egyptian
1954Producer
Broken Lance
1954Executive Producer
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
1953Executive Producer
Viva Zapata!
1952Producer
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952Producer
People Will Talk
1951Producer
David and Bathsheba
1951Producer
Under My Skin
1950Executive Producer
All About Eve
1950Producer
The Gunfighter
1950Executive Producer
No Way Out
1950Presenter
No Way Out
1950Producer
Night and the City
1950Executive Producer
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950Executive Producer
Twelve O'Clock High
1949Producer
Pinky
1949Producer
Slattery's Hurricane
1949Executive Producer
Father Was a Fullback
1949Executive Producer
It Happens Every Spring
1949Executive Producer
The Forbidden Street
1949Executive Producer
The Fan
1949Executive Producer
You're My Everything
1949Executive Producer
Sand
1949Executive Producer
Everybody Does It
1949Executive Producer
Sitting Pretty
1948Executive Producer
Call Northside 777
1948Executive Producer
The Snake Pit
1948Executive Producer
Cry of the City
1948Executive Producer
Apartment for Peggy
1948Executive Producer
The Iron Curtain
1948Presenter
That Wonderful Urge
1948Executive Producer
Fury at Furnace Creek
1948Executive Producer
Road House
1948Executive Producer
The Walls of Jericho
1948Executive Producer
Give My Regards to Broadway
1948Executive Producer
The Foxes of Harrow
1947Executive Producer
Gentleman's Agreement
1947Producer
Nightmare Alley
1947Executive Producer
Boomerang!
1947Executive Producer
Forever Amber
1947Executive Producer
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1947Additional Writing
Captain from Castile
1947Executive Producer
The Homestretch
1947Executive Producer
Moss Rose
1947Executive Producer
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
1947Executive Producer
Carnival in Costa Rica
1947Executive Producer
Dragonwyck
1946Producer
The Razor's Edge
1946Producer
Somewhere in the Night
1946Executive Producer
Centennial Summer
1946Executive Producer
Claudia and David
1946Executive Producer
Strange Triangle
1946Executive Producer
Leave Her to Heaven
1945Executive Producer
Leave Her to Heaven
1945Presenter
Lifeboat
1944Executive Producer
Wilson
1944Producer
Winged Victory
1944Producer
The Purple Heart
1944Producer
The Purple Heart
1944Story
Buffalo Bill
1944Executive Producer
Wintertime
1943Executive Producer
Crash Dive
1943Executive Producer
China Girl
1942Producer
China Girl
1942Screenplay
The Black Swan
1942Executive Producer
This Above All
1942Producer
Thunder Birds
1942Executive Producer
Thunder Birds
1942Story
Moontide
1942Executive Producer
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942Producer
The Pied Piper
1942Executive Producer
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942Director
Sex Hygiene
1942Producer
Song of the Islands
1942Executive Producer
Blood and Sand
1941Producer
The Great American Broadcast
1941Producer
Tall, Dark and Handsome
1941Executive Producer
Tobacco Road
1941Producer
How Green Was My Valley
1941Producer
Western Union
1941Executive Producer
Man Hunt
1941Executive Producer
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941Producer
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941Story
That Night in Rio
1941Producer
Sun Valley Serenade
1941Executive Producer
Know For Sure
1941Producer
Week-End in Havana
1941Executive Producer
Wild Geese Calling
1941Executive Producer
Moon Over Miami
1941Executive Producer
The Return of Frank James
1940Producer
Little Old New York
1940Producer
Brigham Young
1940Producer
The Grapes of Wrath
1940Producer
Four Sons
1940Producer
The Mark of Zorro
1940Executive Producer
The Man I Married
1940Producer
The Blue Bird
1940Producer
Chad Hanna
1940Producer
Hudson's Bay
1940Producer
Star Dust
1940Producer
Down Argentine Way
1940Producer
Maryland
1940Producer
The Great Profile
1940Producer
Lillian Russell
1940Producer
Public Deb No. 1
1940Producer
Rose of Washington Square
1939Producer
Jesse James
1939Producer
Susannah of the Mounties
1939Executive Producer
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939Executive Producer
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939Producer
Stanley and Livingstone
1939Producer
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939Producer
The Gorilla
1939Executive In Charge Of Production
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939Producer
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939Producer
The Rains Came
1939Producer
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939Producer
Swanee River
1939Producer
Hotel for Women
1939Producer
Wife, Husband and Friend
1939Producer
Second Fiddle
1939Executive Producer
Here I Am a Stranger
1939Producer
Tail Spin
1939Producer
Too Busy to Work
1939Producer
Kentucky
1938Executive Producer
Happy Landing
1938Producer
In Old Chicago
1938Producer
Kentucky Moonshine
1938Producer
Submarine Patrol
1938Producer
Little Miss Broadway
1938Producer
Three Blind Mice
1938Producer
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1938Executive In Charge Of Production
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938Executive Producer
My Lucky Star
1938Producer
Just Around the Corner
1938Producer
I'll Give a Million
1938Producer
International Settlement
1938Producer
Josette
1938Executive Producer
Gateway
1938Producer
Suez
1938Producer
Always Goodbye
1938Producer
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
1937Producer
Seventh Heaven
1937Producer
Heidi
1937Producer
Love and Hisses
1937Producer
Love Is News
1937Executive In Charge Of Production
This Is My Affair
1937Production Manager
Wee Willie Winkie
1937Producer
Lancer Spy
1937Executive Producer
Wake Up and Live
1937Producer
Thin Ice
1937Producer
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937Producer
Slave Ship
1937Producer
On the Avenue
1937Producer
Angel's Holiday
1937Producer
To Mary - with Love
1936Producer
The Country Beyond
1936Producer
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936Producer
Half Angel
1936Producer
Banjo on My Knee
1936Executive Producer
Reunion
1936Executive Producer
Private Number
1936Production Manager
The Road to Glory
1936Producer
Under Two Flags
1936Producer
Pigskin Parade
1936Producer
Ladies in Love
1936Executive In Charge Of Production
Ramona
1936Executive Producer
White Hunter
1936Producer
Lloyd's of London
1936Production Manager
White Fang
1936Producer
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936Producer
Poor Little Rich Girl
1936Producer
It Had to Happen
1936Producer
A Message to Garcia
1936Producer
Clive of India
1935Producer
'G' Men
1935Novel
Call of the Wild
1935Producer
Les Misérables
1935Producer
Cardinal Richelieu
1935Producer
Metropolitan
1935Producer
Folies Bergère de Paris
1935Producer
Professional Soldier
1935Producer
The Littlest Rebel
1935Production Manager
Show Them No Mercy!
1935Producer
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1935Producer
Thanks a Million
1935Producer
The Last Gentleman
1934Producer
The Affairs of Cellini
1934Producer
The House of Rothschild
1934Producer
Born to Be Bad
1934Producer
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934Producer
The Mighty Barnum
1934Producer
Looking for Trouble
1934Producer
Moulin Rouge
1934Producer
42nd Street
1933Producer
Baby Face
1933Story
Gallant Lady
1933Producer
Ex-Lady
1933Producer
Parachute Jumper
1933Producer
Lady Killer
1933Story
Blood Money
1933Producer
The Bowery
1933Producer
The Working Man
1933Producer
Advice to the Lovelorn
1933Producer
Doctor X
1932Executive Producer
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932Producer
Life Begins
1932Executive Producer
Three on a Match
1932Producer
The Dark Horse
1932Producer
The Dark Horse
1932Story
The Rich Are Always with Us
1932Producer
The Cabin in the Cotton
1932Producer
The Man Who Played God
1932Producer
Blonde Crazy
1931Executive Producer
The Public Enemy
1931Producer
Little Caesar
1931Producer
Illicit
1931Producer
The Life of the Party
1930Writer
The Doorway to Hell
1930Executive Producer
Maybe It's Love
1930Story
Three Faces East
1930Producer
Disraeli
1929Producer
The Show of Shows
1929Producer
On With the Show!
1929Producer
Madonna of Avenue A
1929Story
Hardboiled Rose
1929Story
The Singing Fool
1928Producer
Noah's Ark
1928Associate Producer
Noah's Ark
1928Story
Tenderloin
1928Producer
Tenderloin
1928Story
Lights of New York
1928Production Supervisor
State Street Sadie
1928Story
The Terror
1928Producer
My Man
1928Story
Pay as You Enter
1928Story
The Midnight Taxi
1928Story
The Black Diamond Express
1927Story
Tracked by the Police
1927Story
The Desired Woman
1927Associate Producer
The Desired Woman
1927Story
Simple Sis
1927Story
Old San Francisco
1927Producer
Old San Francisco
1927Writer
The First Auto
1927Producer
The First Auto
1927Story
Jaws of Steel
1927Writer
Wolf's Clothing
1927Screenplay
Ham and Eggs at the Front
1927Story
Irish Hearts
1927Story
The Missing Link
1927Scenario Writer
The Cave Man
1926Writer
So This Is Paris
1926Producer
The Little Irish Girl
1926Adaptation
The Better 'Ole
1926Screenplay
Oh! What a Nurse!
1926Scenario Writer
Across the Pacific
1926Adaptation
Footloose Widows
1926Writer
The Social Highwayman
1926Story
The Limited Mail
1925Writer
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925Producer
Seven Sinners
1925Story
Eve's Lover
1925Producer
Eve's Lover
1925Scenario Writer
Hogan's Alley
1925Writer
A Broadway Butterfly
1925Writer
Red Hot Tires
1925Story
On Thin Ice
1925Scenario Writer
Three Weeks in Paris
1925Scenario Writer
Money to Burns
1924Co-Writer
The Lighthouse by the Sea
1924Writer
Sherlock's Home
1924Scenario Writer
Find Your Man
1924Writer
Fighting Blood
1923Writer
Fighting Blood
1923Writer
Fighting Blood
1923Writer
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