Darryl F. Zanuck
Production
Born September 5, 1902 in Wahoo, Nebraska, USA
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 first movie job as an extra, but his disapproving father recalled him to Nebraska. In 1917, despite being 15, he deceived a recruiter, joined the United States Army, and served in France with the Nebraska National Guard during World War I.
Filmography
Rat Pack
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Invasion
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Self (archive footage)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self (archive footage)
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
Self (archive footage)
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self (archive footage)
Darryl F. Zanuck: 20th Century Filmmaker
Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
Self (archive footage)
Hung Up
Tora! Tora! Tora!
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
D-Day Revisited
Self
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Visit
The Chapman Report
The Longest Day
The Big Gamble
Sanctuary
Crack in the Mirror
The Roots of Heaven
The Barbarian and the Geisha
The Sun Also Rises
Island in the Sun
The King and I
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
On the Threshold of Space
Cinépanorama
Self
Good Morning, Miss Dove
The View from Pompey's Head
Seven Cities of Gold
Broken Lance
The Egyptian
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Viva Zapata!
People Will Talk
David and Bathsheba
All About Eve
No Way Out
Night and the City
The Gunfighter
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Under My Skin
What's My Line?
Self
Twelve O'Clock High
Everybody Does It
Father Was a Fullback
Pinky
Slattery's Hurricane
Sand
You're My Everything
It Happens Every Spring
The Fan
The Forbidden Street
The Walls of Jericho
That Wonderful Urge
The Snake Pit
Apartment for Peggy
Cry of the City
Road House
The Iron Curtain
Give My Regards to Broadway
Fury at Furnace Creek
Call Northside 777
Captain from Castile
Gentleman's Agreement
Forever Amber
Nightmare Alley
The Foxes of Harrow
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Moss Rose
The Homestretch
Carnival in Costa Rica
Boomerang!
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
The Razor's Edge
Centennial Summer
Somewhere in the Night
Strange Triangle
Dragonwyck
Claudia and David
Leave Her to Heaven
Winged Victory
Wilson
Buffalo Bill
The Purple Heart
Lifeboat
Wintertime
Show-Business at War
Self
Crash Dive
China Girl
The Black Swan
To the Shores of Tripoli
Thunder Birds
The Pied Piper
Moontide
This Above All
Song of the Islands
Sex Hygiene
How Green Was My Valley
Know For Sure
Week-End in Havana
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Sun Valley Serenade
Wild Geese Calling
Moon Over Miami
Man Hunt
Blood and Sand
The Great American Broadcast
That Night in Rio
Western Union
Tobacco Road
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Chad Hanna
Hudson's Bay
The Mark of Zorro
Down Argentine Way
Brigham Young
Public Deb No. 1
The Great Profile
The Return of Frank James
The Man I Married
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
Maryland
Four Sons
Lillian Russell
Star Dust
The Grapes of Wrath
Little Old New York
The Blue Bird
Swanee River
Too Busy to Work
Drums Along the Mohawk
Hollywood Cavalcade
Here I Am a Stranger
The Rains Came
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Stanley and Livingstone
Hotel for Women
Second Fiddle
Susannah of the Mounties
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Gorilla
Rose of Washington Square
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Wife, Husband and Friend
Tail Spin
Jesse James
Kentucky
Submarine Patrol
Just Around the Corner
Suez
My Lucky Star
Gateway
Little Miss Broadway
I'll Give a Million
Always Goodbye
Three Blind Mice
Josette
Kentucky Moonshine
In Old Chicago
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Sally, Irene and Mary
International Settlement
Happy Landing
Love and Hisses
Heidi
Lancer Spy
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Thin Ice
Wake Up and Live
Wee Willie Winkie
Slave Ship
Angel's Holiday
This Is My Affair
Seventh Heaven
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Love Is News
On the Avenue
Banjo on My Knee
White Hunter
Lloyd's of London
Reunion
Pigskin Parade
Ladies in Love
Ramona
The Road to Glory
Sing, Baby, Sing
To Mary - with Love
Poor Little Rich Girl
White Fang
Private Number
Half Angel
Under Two Flags
The Country Beyond
A Message to Garcia
The Prisoner of Shark Island
It Had to Happen
Professional Soldier
The Littlest Rebel
Show Them No Mercy!
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Thanks a Million
Metropolitan
Call of the Wild
'G' Men
Les Misérables
Cardinal Richelieu
Folies Bergère de Paris
Clive of India
The Mighty Barnum
The Affairs of Cellini
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
Born to Be Bad
The Last Gentleman
The House of Rothschild
Looking for Trouble
Moulin Rouge
Lady Killer
Gallant Lady
Advice to the Lovelorn
Blood Money
The Bowery
Baby Face
Ex-Lady
The Working Man
42nd Street
The 42nd Street Special
Self
Parachute Jumper
20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Three on a Match
The Cabin in the Cotton
Life Begins
Doctor X
The Dark Horse
The Rich Are Always with Us
The Man Who Played God
Blonde Crazy
The Public Enemy
Illicit
Little Caesar
The Life of the Party
The Doorway to Hell
Maybe It's Love
Three Faces East
The Show of Shows
Disraeli
On With the Show!
Madonna of Avenue A
Hardboiled Rose
My Man
Noah's Ark
The Singing Fool
The Terror
The Midnight Taxi
State Street Sadie
Lights of New York
Pay as You Enter
Tenderloin
Ham and Eggs at the Front
Jaws of Steel
Old San Francisco
The Desired Woman
The First Auto
The Black Diamond Express
Simple Sis
Irish Hearts
Tracked by the Police
The Missing Link
Wolf's Clothing
The Better 'Ole
Across the Pacific
So This Is Paris
Footloose Widows
The Social Highwayman
Oh! What a Nurse!
The Little Irish Girl
The Cave Man
Lady Windermere's Fan
Three Weeks in Paris
Seven Sinners
Red Hot Tires
The Limited Mail
Eve's Lover
A Broadway Butterfly
On Thin Ice
The Lighthouse by the Sea
Find Your Man
Sherlock's Home